(Editor’s Note: This story originally ran in November 2008 and has proved a perennial favorite of Power Engineering readers. With the New Year we thought we’d share it again. Click here to see the ...

When I began my power industry career years ago (initially in the chemistry lab of a coal-fired power plant), the criticality of proper chemistry control of steam boilers, cooling water systems, and ...

CHARLOTTE, N.C. — Babcock & Wilcox Enterprises Inc. (B&W) has announced the release of the 42nd edition of Steam/Its Generation and Use — the longest, continuously published engineering textbook of ...

When alloy tubing in one of the new steam generators at San Onofre leaked a small amount of radiation four years ago this week, engineers at Southern California Edison immediately instituted emergency ...