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Conductivity System Detects Power Plant Corrosive Contaminants

July 6, 2015July 2, 2015 by Jessica Lyons Hardcastle

The Mettler Toledo Thornton DCC1000 System offers a new design for conductivity measurement for power cycle chemistry monitoring. This system provides assurance of water purity to maximize power production and minimize corrosion, the company says. High purity water is used in the water/steam cycle in power generation and maintaining its ... Read more »

GE Helps Beijing Power Plant Reduce Emissions, Boost Efficiency

July 2, 2015July 1, 2015 by Jessica Lyons Hardcastle

General Electric Power Generation Services has been selected to help a Beijing power plant reduce its emissions and boost efficiency. The cornerstone of China’s $40 bullion plan to power the 2008 Olympics was the Taiyanggong Thermal Power Station. The 780-MW natural gas-fired plant in Beijing was the first step in ... Read more »

Waste-to-Energy Plant Cuts Landfilled Waste 90%

July 1, 2015June 30, 2015 by Jessica Lyons Hardcastle

A Babcock & Wilcox waste-to-energy facility in West Palm Beach, Florida, is now online. The company says it is the cleanest and most-advanced power plant of its kind in North America, providing power for about 44,000 homes and businesses while processing more than 1 million tons of post-recycled municipal solid ... Read more »

Are Mercury Rules a Toxic Double Standard?

June 5, 2015July 3, 2017 by Jessica Lyons Hardcastle

New EPA rules aimed at curbing mercury emissions, which mainly affect coal-fired electrical generating plants, are based on bad science, write Willis Eschenbach and Jane M. Orient, MD, in the summer issue of the Journal of American Physicians and Surgeons. Medical sources of mercury are likely far more important, but ... Read more »

Ametek Land Monitor Helps Power Plants Meet Mercury and Air Toxics Standards

May 21, 2015May 20, 2015 by Jessica Lyons Hardcastle

Ametek Land has launched the 4650-PM Continuous Dust Monitor to help US power plants meet the EPA’s new Mercury and Air Toxics Standards (MATS) for particulate matter measurement. The EPA’s new MATS rules sets particulate matter (PM) limits for coal and oil-fired electricity generating units: 4650-PM is suitable for both ... Read more »

GE Technology Helps Refinery Cut Water Use, Emissions

May 19, 2015May 18, 2015 by Jessica Lyons Hardcastle

Compañia Española de Petróleos (CEPSA), a Spanish petrochemical companies, has adopted General Electric gas turbine technology at its Gibraltar-San Roque refinery to meet environmental emissions restrictions without reducing efficiency or increasing operational cost. Developed by GE’s Power Generation Services business, the fuel-flexible high hydrogen fuel DLN1 technology increased the gas ... Read more »

US Greenhouse Gas Emissions Drop 9% Since 2005

April 17, 2015April 17, 2015 by Jessica Lyons Hardcastle

The US saw a 2 percent increase in greenhouse gas emissions in 2013 from 2012 levels, but a 9 percent drop in emissions since 2005, according to the EPA’s 20th Inventory of US Greenhouse Gas Emissions and Sinks. Total US greenhouse emissions were 6,673 million metric tons of carbon dioxide equivalent in 2013. By sector, power plants ... Read more »

Ovivo System Feed Power Plant Using Recycled Wastewater

April 14, 2015April 13, 2015 by Jessica Lyons Hardcastle

Water and wastewater treatment company Ovivo has won a $5 million contract to supply a boiler feed water system for a power plant in the Middle East. Ovivo’s system will recycle wastewater from a nearby municipal sewage treatment plant. The scope of supply includes Ovivo’s process design and equipment — ... Read more »

B&W Wins $40.3M Emissions Control Contract

March 26, 2015March 25, 2015 by Jessica Lyons Hardcastle

A consortium that includes Babcock & Wilcox Power Generation Group has been awarded a contract by Colorado Springs Utilities to engineer, procure, construct and commission an emissions control project for the Ray D. Nixon Power Plant, located south of Colorado Springs, Colorado. B&W PGG’s portion of the major capital improvements ... Read more »

Power Plant to Install GE Mobile Water Treatment During Planned Outage

March 20, 2015March 19, 2015 by Jessica Lyons Hardcastle

General Electric will commission a reverse osmosis (RO) mobile water filtration system at the Golden Valley Electric Association (GVEA) coal-fired power plant in Healy, Alaska. The GE system will provide the plant with clean water during a planned outage to upgrade the plant’s water treatment system and environmental controls and ... Read more »

GE’s Big Data Saves Power Plant Customers $70M

March 19, 2015March 18, 2015 by Jessica Lyons Hardcastle

General Electric’s big-data driven insights saved its power plant customers about $70 million in 2014, up from $53.9 million in 2013, the company says. Every day, at its Monitoring & Diagnostics (M&D) Center, GE collects more than 30,000 operating hours of data from a fleet of more than 1,500 gas ... Read more »

Environment, Energy ‘Front and Center’ on Capitol Hill

February 10, 2015February 9, 2015 by Jessica Lyons Hardcastle

Industry can expect several key EPA rules governing climate change, air and water quality to be finalized this year, according to Bloomberg BNA’s 2015 policy outlook on the environment and energy. Among the report’s key takeaways: Climate change: The EPA is slated to finalize landmark climate regulations governing carbon emissions ... Read more »

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