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NID proves attractive for flue gas desulphurisation where size matters
20 November, 2000
Since its introduction some four years ago NID (Novel Integrated Desulphurisation) technology has seen some significant enhancements.

California price cap woes
20 October, 2000
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Narva doubt
21 August, 2000

Row over Ilisu
21 August, 2000

Enjoy the taste of power
21 August, 2000

Compact main-steam valve units for China’s first VVERs
21 August, 2000
China’s first two 1000 MWe Russian-designed PWRs (see MPS, February 2000) – due to go on line in 2004 and 2005 – will have very compact and highly integrated main-steam valve units. John Penney, CCI AG, Winterthur, Switzerland

Chicken runs provide the fuel for Fibrowatt’s global ambitions
21 August, 2000
Buoyed by a year’s successful operation of its chicken litter fuelled power plant, at Thetford in the UK, and boosted by significant investment from the Kelda Group, Fibrowatt Ltd is now set to move onto the world stage.

Horizontal boilers make 700°C steam economic
19 May, 2000
A novel design of Benson boiler with horizontal furnace and internally rifled vertical tubes has been developed by Siemens. In association with the EU-funded Thermie advanced 700°C PF power plant programme it has been designed for steam conditions of 350 bar/700°C/720°C. The reduced height of the boiler minimises the amount of expensive high nickel alloys required for the steam lines to a point where the economics are competitive. Mounting the steam turbine at the level of the boiler steam outlet headers results in further cost reductions.

Salta–Atacama 345 kV transmission line takes power across the Andes
20 April, 2000
Gener is supplying power to northern Chile via a new transmission line from Salta in Argentina. The design parameters for the line, which is carrying power generated in a new combined cycle plant, were primarily determined by the need to cross the Andean mountain range at an altitude of up to 4800m above sea level. G. Gheorghita, W Roemer, G-H Dian and S Grunwald, Fichtner, Stuttgart, Germany

Repairing a single crystal
20 April, 2000
Gas turbine blades are becoming increasingly specialised. The materials involved are increasingly difficult to repair. Andrew Williams, Wood Group Heavy Industrial Turbine Division, Dundee, Scotland

Enfield Energy Centre GT26 first to 265 MWe
20 April, 2000
The GT26-based 400 MWe Enfield Energy Centre CCGT in the UK has just demonstrated full power output at a rating much higher than originally designated. Will this be the first fully developed and field tested single gas turbine to generate over 270 MWe? David Smith