Boilers have enormous thermal mass and are relatively slow to react. Turbines are nimble and quickly answer an operator’s command. Coordinating an entire plant requires an intimate knowledge of both ...

Organic compounds pioneered boiler water chemical treatment when lignosulfonates derived from oak bark were used to minimize calcium carbonate scaling. Today’s organic boiler treatment methods include ...

A steam separator sometimes called a moisture separator or a steam drier, is a device used to separate the moisture from the steam in a watertube boiler steam drum. Without the steam separators, ‘wet’ ...

One of the most common home heating systems for older houses in the Northeast and other cold-climate areas is a boiler. Boilers heat water, and then distribute hot steam or hot water to rooms through ...

Forced outages of steam boilers due to tube leakages remain the leading cause of lost production in plants. Due to hundreds, if not thousands of linear feet of pipe, there is a high potential for ...

Carbonic acid grooving of a condensate return line. Photo courtesy of ChemTreat, Inc. In Part 1 of this series, we examined methods to produce high-purity water for high-pressure power and ...

Physics and the physical design of an industrial or process steam boiler play a key role in determining the overall and day-to-day safety of a steam boiler. When it comes to the overall operation, the ...