It is well-known that a conventional boiler or heat recovery steam generator (HRSG) and related steam turbine have innumerable pieces all working in conjunction to produce the end product of electric ...

Image art by Kevin Clark via ChatGPT-5.4. The first three parts of this series outlined how water-side microbiological fouling and mineral scaling, and excess air in-leakage on the steam side, can ...

The upper left portion of the diagram shows the exhaust steam entering the air cooled condenser: •Steam In: The total mass flow rate of the exhaust steam. It depends on the plant size and steam cycle ...

The following parameters may be set on the Steam Cycle Performance parameter screen: •Steam Energy Added in Boiler: The heat content of the steam changes as it moves throughout the steam turbines, ...

If coal and natural gas power generation were 2% more efficient, then, every year, there could be 460 million fewer tons of carbon dioxide released and 2 trillion fewer gallons of water used. A recent ...

Declining performance of a large compressor-driven steam turbine's surface condenser at Shell Chemical LP's petrochemical complex in Norco, La., was constraining an associated process unit to a ...

A major independent power producer’s (IPP’s) merchant fleet includes dozens of gas-fired combined-cycle plants of 3 x 1, 2 x 1, and 1 x 1 configurations. Nearly all have triple-drum heat-recovery ...