At large institutional facilities and educational campuses, particularly those located in colder climates, steam flow measurement is a critical challenge. Facility operators want to accurately track ...

Figure 1. High-pressure district or campus steam is reduced to lower pressure for building use. The controller receives the low-pressure steam reading from the transmitter and regulates low-flow ...

A steam turbine is designed and optimized for a specific set of steam conditions. After long term operations either the steam path components deteriorate or due to changes in steam conditions, a ...

How low can you go? That’s the question owners of gas turbine combined cycle plants are asking these days as they are being called upon to operate those units for rapid response in markets where load ...

(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 ...

Despite the fact that mathematical models and the incredible growth in computer power allow one to imitate and calculate almost everything now, there are some areas where real experiments are still ...