Pneumatic furnace damper drives may be more common, but electro-hydraulic actuators provide several advantages to the more traditional control scheme. One fossil-fired plant in Taiwan achieved more ...

With environmental and economic constraints driving power plants towards cleaner and more efficient operations, it is imperative that the main process in a fossil-fueled boiler, combustion, should be ...

A gas supply operation in North America commissioned three new steam boilers in a plant expansion project that included a Robinson forced draft (FD) fan on each boiler. During the boiler start-up in a ...

Power plants–especially coal-fired boilers–pose a set of process control problems unparalleled in other industries. Rapid load ramps, continuous unit demand changes, variable fuel quality and process ...

Continuing the restoration of the #1 Lancashire boiler at the Claymills Pumping Station in the UK, the volunteers are putting ...

It also focuses on compartmentation and the dampers used to prevent the spread of heat, fire, and smoke as they contain products of combustion. Chapter 9 of the IBC contains requirements for ...