Optimizing Catalyst Performance Lowers O&M Costs
This detailed case study looks at how targeting specific chemicals to specific regions on the steam generator allows direct management of multiple environmental control and generator maintenance issues. The process described also significantly extends catalyst life in selective catalytic reduction systems.
Though India?s booming economy is the envy of many Western nations, the country faces several roadblocks to developing sufficient power generation and delivery infrastructure to drive that expanding economy. Some obstacles can be tackled internally with changes in policy and workforce development; others, including global coal prices, will be harder to remove.
Daily cycling + less-than-ideal makeup water = operating challenges. This case study explains how one combined cycle plant transitioned to a data-driven, performance- based cooling water treatment program that is saving it six figures in treatment costs while increasing steam turbine output.
As expected, low U.S. natural gas prices and high shale gas reserves dominated the keynote session discussion at May?s ELECTRIC POWER Conference, but keynote speakers and panelists also looked ahead to industry innovations and the need to preserve all options for generation diversity.
As federal sweeteners are taken off the table, utilities are leaning on cheap solar as their easiest option for advancing renewables in the near future.
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