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Kyoto commitments: CHP will help the UK
20 December, 1998
At the UK Combined Heat and Power Association's National Conference held in London on 19 November 1998, UK government minister, Michael Meacher, stated that combined heat and power (CHP) will make a vital contribution to meeting the UK's climate change targets for CO2 emissions reduction.

Computer surveillance – Big Brother keeps watch on diesel engines
19 October, 1998
Advances in electronics are transforming the diesel engine business in such areas as design, data control and monitoring systems. In its new 1300 series EDi, Perkins Engines has incorporated what it calls 'electronic intelligence'. Currently at an early stage of implementation for use in stationary power, this offers a number of benefits.

Shift the pressure
19 October, 1998

SPRINT spray intercooling augments LM6000 output
20 September, 1998
By injecting water between the low pressure and high pressure compressors of an aeroderivative gas turbine, GE-IAD engineers have demonstrated that a 9 per cent increase in output accompanied by reduced life cycle costs can be achieved. Designated the SPRINT system, uprated LM 6000 units with augmented efficiency have been introduced to the market. The first two production units, both supplied to Southern Electric Power Generation in England for mid-merit independent power generation plants at Chickerell in Dorset and Burghfield in Berkshire, have each clocked in excess of 500 operating hours since start-up in early April 1998. MPS visited the Chickerell installation in late July 1998.

The importance of being flexible
20 August, 1998
The UK's Rocksavage combined cycle gas turbine IPP power station, just officially opened, is designed to cope with some 200 stops and starts per year rather than baseload operation.

CBS sells Westinghouse nuclear division to Morrison Knudsen and BNFL
20 August, 1998

Sapugaskanda hand-over well ahead of schedule
20 July, 1998
Under budget and ahead of schedule after a construction phase of only twelve months for a country's first build own operate (BOO) project is a remarkable but necessary achievement for economic operation in these days of minimal non-recourse finance.

Fuel cell fever favours distributed generation
20 July, 1998
When symposia proliferate, conferences and demonstrations abound, and new specialist bodies emerge all round the world, it usually means that new technology is ripe for commercial market penetration. If this is still true in the new age of commercially competitive power supply, then fuel cells should be about to burst upon the scene. In practice, much of the hype may still be premature, but a status review and a comparison of competing technologies may now be timely.

Westervoort SOFC: the road to commercialization
21 May, 1998
A 100 kWe solid oxide fuel cell power plant, the largest of its type ever built, has begun operation in the Netherlands. The plant supplies electricity to the local grid and hot water for district heating, and began full scale testing at the end of 1997. This $10 million project represents one of the final stages in the road to commercialization of the Westinghouse solid oxide fuel cell.

New electric generator takes a giant step back to basics
21 May, 1998
As reported in MPS, March 1998, ABB has developed a completely new electric generator. Here, ABB authors present further details. The most prominent feature of the new machine is the possibility of generating voltages at a level that allows for direct connection to the power grid – implying the omission of the step-up transformer with its associated losses and costs. The new machine embodies the functionality of both a generator and a transformer and has therefore been named PowerformerTM.

Advanced technology for Nordjyllandsværket Unit 3
21 May, 1998
In 1992, Danish utility I/S Nordjyllandsværket decided to add a supercritical, high efficiency coal fired unit at its power plant near Aalborg in Denmark. Construction is now complete, and start-up scheduled for October this year. Equipped with one of the highest efficiency steam turbine units in the world, and full flue gas cleaning, it will set new standards in power and heat supply.