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Aitchtopia may be over the horizon
01 October, 2003

Rationalised product lines aim to anticipate future markets
01 October, 2003
The Siemens-Westinghouse merger and the drive for ever higher efficiencies and therefore temperatures are among the factors that have led to new steam turbine technologies anticipating future market developments.

When "wait and see" isn't good enough: applying HAZOP at Genelba
01 October, 2003
Benjamín Guzmán and Jorge Vugdelija, Petrobras Energia, Buenos Aires, Argentina Although originating in the petrochemical industry, HAZOP (HAZards and OPerability) techniques can be successfully applied to power plants to proactively identify and address potential problems in operation, with the overall goal of improving reliability and economics. The Genelba CCGT in Argentina has been a pioneer in this field, employing HAZOP techniques to good effect and developing/adapting them where necessary for power plant applications.

First power from Three Gorges
01 October, 2003
Power was generated for the first time from the Three Gorges Dam on the Yangtze River in southern China in July 2003, ten years after construction began in 1993.

Mimicking nature promises higher power & lower cost
01 October, 2003

Rolls-Royce drives up the pressure on SOFC costs
01 October, 2003

940 km HVDC line in miniature
01 October, 2003
Siemens has tested indoors at its simulation facility in Erlangen the HVDC transmission technology actually destined for China's 940 km Gui-Guang interconnector.

No longer a purely Scandinavian affair
01 October, 2003
Alstom has won the contract to refurbish and uprate the 275 MW Konti-Skan undersea HVDC link between Denmark and Sweden

The benefits of going gravimetric
01 October, 2003
Gordon Gardiner, Redler (Division of Stock Equipment Co), Stroud, Gloucs, UK

Landfill of opportunity
03 June, 2003
The power-from-waste business looks set to expand over the coming years, providing interesting possibilities for steam turbine designers. Raymond Bowell, Peter Brotherhood, Peterborough, UK

Gasification could bring respectability to co-firing
03 June, 2003
Feasibility studies carried out by Black & Veatch have established the economic viability and environmental value of using biomass gasification product as a secondary fuel in coal fired plants. Ryan Pletka, Black & Veatch, Overland Park, KS, USA.

Getting the FACTS right
03 June, 2003
An innovative solution with critical advantages over conventional static var compensators has been chosen by a US utility to improve recovery from voltage fluctuations on its network. John Loughran*

Is gas really cheapest?
03 June, 2003
What is the true cost of generating a kWh of electricity? Adjusting for risk overturns the conventional wisdom. Shimon Awerbuch, SPRU-Tyndall Centre for Climate Change Research, University of Sussex, UK

Coal power with a d spells cash
03 June, 2003

Phosphors light way to longer life
03 June, 2003
By embedding phosphors in gas turbine thermal barrier coatings they can be made "smart", able to indicate their temperature and condition by phosphorescence under UV light. This opens up new, and much needed, possibilities for NDE and condition monitoring.

Aiming for peak boiler performance in Hong Kong
03 June, 2003
Advanced control systems are at the heart of a multi-million dollar project to modernise Castle Peak B power station in Hong Kong, one of the world's largest coal-fired plants. Tan Suan-Han, Invensys Software Systems, Singapore

BioPower plants for Finnforest sawmills
03 June, 2003

Kyoto: "new Danish export adventure"?
03 June, 2003

Advanced IT helps Kymin Voima through a forest of complexities
03 June, 2003
Running a cogeneration plant operating on a range of biomass fuel inputs, with the need to allocate costs and profits over several owners, is no easy task. Advanced information applications are the key to success, as exemplified by the Kymin Voima Oy plant at Kuusankoski.

Power plants go to waste in Sweden
03 June, 2003