As coal plants across the United States shutter and stop pouring harmful pollutants into the air, the health effects from all those emissions have eased, saving thousands of lives. But less pollution ...

May 4, 2023 — Valmet announced it will convert Helen Ltd’s coal-fired district heat boiler to bubbling fluidized bed (BFB) combustion to enable wood pellet firing at the Salmisaari ‘A’ power plant in ...

This Sunshine week, make a gift and it will be matched dollar for dollar. A 40-pound bag of stove-sized coal cut open to show the anthracite within at O.C. McGuin & Sons in Highgate Center on Thursday ...

Bryden Wood has created a new digital platform for making the replacement of coal-fired boilers at existing power plants with advanced modular nuclear reactors possible at scale and speed. A rendering ...

There is currently a large dependence on coal for power generation. As coal-fired plants cause environmental and health hazards, technologies such as swirl flow and air staging have been proposed to ...

Operating pulverized coal-fired boilers under low-load conditions presents several challenges. This article offers tips to keep units in the best possible operating condition. In today’s energy market ...

Editor’s Note: This article is based on a paper given at POWER-GEN International in Orlando in December 2010. The paper was recognized as one of the best presented at the 2010 conference. This ...

Think about a hospital that isn’t able to sterilize its medical equipment, the college campus with no hot water for their thousands of students or the food processing plant that cannot make steam and ...

Combustion in boilers and furnaces remains a pivotal area of research, central to optimising energy efficiency and minimising pollutant emissions in industrial and power generation applications.

Coal-fired power plants have been in place for a long time to meet the global demands for power generation. Needless to say, there are environmental and human health concerns to be addressed on this ...