Maintaining and operating a coal-fired generating station requires the utmost attention to detail to stay competitive. Focusing on the fundamentals of combustion allows engineers to improve ...

Recent Electric Power Research Institute (EPRI) research aims to better understand the potential of process control enhancements, such as load control, sliding pressure control, and steam temperature ...

A parallel metering control system is one in which the increase or decrease in the firing rate command is fed to the fuel and air controllers simultaneously such that fuel and air are essentially ...

This three-part series describes how to properly test a DC/DC power supply, and ensure that it works reliably over various operating conditions. This series is intended to provide the designer with a ...

Many fire departments are for the first time putting into service aerial devices, whether straight stick, platform or elevated stream. This may be the case because the area has grown to a point where ...

This article is dedicated to Jim Williams who several years ago (2006) wrote an article in EDN regarding the need of a good lab apparatus to qualify the behavior of voltage regulators for compliance ...

China says it has completed a load test involving dozens of trucks on the world's highest bridge, a steel suspension structure in Guizhou province. The five-day testing completed on Aug. 25, with ...