An increasing number of low-pressure steam turbines—especially at supercritical fossil units—have experienced stress corrosion cracking in the blade attachment region of their low-pressure rotors.

How low can you go? That’s the question owners of gas turbine combined cycle plants are asking these days as they are being called upon to operate those units for rapid response in markets where load ...

Many power plant personnel are aware that chemistry upsets in a steam generator may cause severe corrosion and failure of boiler waterwall tubes and other components. These failures place the staff at ...

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Comparison of mechanical and thermal vapor compression systems. (The evaporator and the condenser, required for both systems, are not shown in the figure.) May 4, 2015 Absorption chillers use heat, ...

Japan's Mitsubishi Heavy Industries has delivered three replacement steam generators for unit 1 of the Cruas nuclear power plant in south-western France. They will be installed later this year during ...

Japan's Mitsubishi Heavy Industries (MHI) and France's Comex Nucléaire, a subsidiary of ONET Technologies, have been awarded a contract by Electricité de France (EdF) to supply six replacement steam ...