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Water Treatment
The 2024 Electric Utility Chemistry Workshop: Providing valuable information for many industries
PE contributor Brad Buecker recaps the conference, which covers the topics of steam generation chemistry, makeup water and cooling water treatment, air emissions control, environmental regulations and other topics to power plant personnel.
Establishing treatment processes for reliable high-purity makeup in power and co-generation boilers (Part 1)
This first installment of the series explores several important aspects of high-purity makeup system pretreatment.
Advanced cooling water treatment concepts (Part 6)
Editor’s note: This is the final installment of a six-part series by Brad Buecker, President of Buecker & Associates, LLC. Read Part 1 here. Read Part 2 here. Read Part 3 here. Read Part 4 here. Read Part 5 here. In previous parts of this series, we examined many issues related to primary cooling water treatment at power and industrial plants. However, most large plants have a
Advanced cooling water treatment concepts (Part 5)
Editor’s note: This is the fifth installment of a multi-part series by Brad Buecker, President of Buecker & Associates, LLC. Read Part 1 here. Read Part 2 here. Read Part 3 here. Read Part 4 here. The previous part to this series provided an overview of oxidizing biocides, which have for many years been utilized for cooling water microbiological control. However, conditions may exist in
Advanced cooling water treatment concepts (Part 3)
This installment provides an overview of common microbiological fouling issues, with discussion also about macro-biological fouling.
HRSG issues: Reemphasizing the importance of FAC corrosion control – Part 4
This is Brad Buecker’s final installment of a four-part series on flow-accelerated corrosion control.
HRSG issues: Reemphasizing the importance of FAC corrosion control – Part 3
This is the third installment of a multi-part series on flow-accelerated corrosioon control by Brad Buecker, Buecker & Associates.
HRSG issues: Reemphasizing the importance of FAC corrosion control – Part 2
This is the second installment of a multi-part series by Brad Buecker on flow-accelerated corrosion control.
Water Treatment
HRSG issues: Reemphasizing the importance of FAC corrosion control – Part 3
This is the third installment of a multi-part series on flow-accelerated corrosioon control by Brad Buecker, Buecker & Associates….
HRSG issues: Reemphasizing the importance of FAC corrosion control – Part 2
This is the second installment of a multi-part series by Brad Buecker on flow-accelerated corrosion control….
HRSG issues: Reemphasizing the importance of FAC corrosion control – Part 1
This is the first installment of a multi-part series by Brad Buecker on flow-accelerated corrosion control….
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Mitigating Flow-Accelerated Corrosion with Film-Forming Chemistry in HRSGs
By Dale Stuart, ChemTreat Inc. Introduction A three-year-old combined-cycle power plant in the Northeast with an ammonia-only steam generator chemistry treatmen…
Mexico’s Domo de San Pedro geothermal plant using Mitsubishi digital tools
A geothermal power plant in Mexico is installing Mitsubishi Power’s digital solution to increase performance efficiency and operations as the steam potential …
HRSG — Critical Feedwater Chemistry Control
By Brad Buecker, ChemTreat, Inc. and Ken Kuruc, Hach According to reports that continue to appear in trade publications, combined cycle power generation will, f…
Boilers
Blast from the past: Steam Generation Thermodynamics 101
(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 …
Hitting the Layup: Case study on HRSG corrosion protection techniques at Nebraska CCGT power plant
By Brad Buecker, ChemTreat, and Dan Dixon, Lincoln Electric System As coal-fired power plants are being retired as a result of environmental and economic factor…
Boilers
Wet-limestone scrubber enhancement chemistry improves heat rate for coal-fired plants
In early 2019, Power Engineering published a report on a chemistry that can significantly enhance limestone reactivity and sulfur dioxide (SO2) removal in wet f…
Instrumentation & Controls
Hydraulic Institute: Where pump optimization meets energy efficiency
By Peter Gaydon, director, technical affairs for the Hydraulic Institute The word ‘optimization’ can have various meanings and interpretations, but the bene…
Corrosion minimization: The key is to protect metal surfaces
Many of the new combined cycle power plants that have sprouted up in the last two decades have open recirculating cooling systems, i.e., cooling towers, for tur…
Combined Cycle
On-Line chemistry monitoring: A critical necessity for heat recovery steam generators
With the decline of coal-fired power generation and the upswing in renewables, a large bridge between the two has been and continues to be simple- and especiall…
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