When I began my power industry career years ago (initially in the chemistry lab of a coal-fired power plant), the criticality of proper chemistry control of steam boilers, cooling water systems, and ...

(Editor’s Note: This story originally ran in November 2008 and has proved a perennial favorite of Power Engineering readers. With the New Year we thought we’d share it again. Click here to see the ...

IN a recent review of "The 1939 Callendar Steam Tables" 1, Dr. H. Heywood concludes by saying that "these tables . . . should meet the requirements for many years of engineers concerned with the ...

THE mechanization of computation concerning steam plant design has been greatly frustrated by the difficulty of having to use steam tables. An experiment carried out using the University of Manchester ...

Mechanical Dynamics & Analysis (MD&A) experts recently performed a thermodynamic analysis to assist our client in converting their coal and natural gas plant to combined cycle operation. The customer ...