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November 1, 200711.01.2007 | Jim McMahon (jim.mcmahon@zebracom.net) writes about advances in energy and industrial technology. To contact Warren & Baerg Manufacturing, e-mail
Burning biomass or nonrecyclable commercial, municipal, or industrial waste along with coal represents one of the nearest-term and lowest-cost options for reducing carbon dioxide (CO 2) emissions from existing utility power plants. At more than 150 plants... 11.01.2007 | Douglas J. Smith, IEng, Contributing Editor
Like many older coal-fired plants, Westar Energy’s Jeffrey Energy Center (JEC) was built with traditional, pneumatic flyash-handling and removal systems. Such systems collect flyash in hoppers attached to the bottom of a unit’s electrostatic... 11.01.2007 | Edward B. Douberly (edouberly@ufpeg.com) is the founder and president of Utility FPE Group Inc., a consultancy offering fire protection engineering an
All conveyor systems are at risk of fire caused by the ignition of transported materials or equipment failure. But the propensity of Powder River Basin (PRB) coal to self-ignite introduces an exceptional hazard requiring special fire prevention and automatic... 11.01.2007 | Jason Fordney (jfordney@accessintel.com) is a reporter for POWER’s sister publication, Energy Daily
While noting marginal improvements since last year, America’s power reliability watchdog recently warned that the nation’s growing thirst for electricity will still far exceed planned increases in generation capacity over the next 10 years, and... 11.01.2007 | Jason Moore (jdmoore@diamondpower.com) is a project engineer for Diamond Power International Inc.
The National Coal Council estimates that 40,000 MW of additional generating capacity is available to existing U.S. coal-fired plants simply by making efficiency improvements. Because decreases in production costs go straight to a plant’s bottom line... 11.01.2007
On November 20, New York City Mayor Michael R. Bloomberg and top executives of the real estate company Tishman Speyer announced several energy conservation measures to be implemented at Rockefeller Center this holiday season. One is the outfitting of its... 11.01.2007 | Dr. Robert Peltier, PE
During his June 2007 speech to the National Press Club, presidential candidate and former U.S. Senator John Edwards called America’s 37 million residents living below the poverty line "the great moral issue of our time." He proposed setting a... |
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