Cause personal injury, such as from falling objects. Engineers, installing contractors, owners and operators, technicians, and equipment manufacturers alike have struggled with the identification, ...

The presence of unburned fuel in a power plant’s ash indicates an inefficient combustion process, as some of the energy in the fuel is being wasted. Unburned fuel also poses a risk to safety; if ...

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 ...

Controlling excess combustion air and unburned carbon losses is the key to finding the sweet spot in this biomass boiler approach. Bagasse, a renewable biomass fuel, is the fibrous residue remaining ...

Variable conditions like coal quality, boiler cleanliness and equipment deterioration can affect a coal-fired power plant’s performance—and that’s where combustion optimization systems come in, to ...

Controlling combustion in fossil fuel power plants in order to control the emission of pollutants sometimes has adverse effects on plant equipment, including certain metals. To understand how to ...

You might remember the days when a boiler tune-up mostly meant adjusting the flame. The flame was supposed to be solid blue with the tips slightly rounded. If the flame was soft, wavy and contained ...