State-owned Korea Midland Power Co. (KOMIPO) operates the Shin Boryeong Thermal Power Plant (TPP), a two-unit, 2,000-MW ultrasupercritical bituminous-coal-fired power plant. Shin Boryeong TPP is an ...

Keeping a power plant’s surface condenser in proper working order requires paying attention to balance-of-plant systems as well. Failure to monitor and maintain cooling towers and vacuum pumps in ...

Researchers at the Miguel Hernández University of Elche in Spain have designed an air-to-water heat pump system that can shift domestic hot water (DHW) production to central daylight hours, thus ...

In Part 2 of this series, we examined how both water-side microbiological fouling and mineral scaling will seriously degrade condenser heat transfer, and how an accurate monitoring program will detect ...

In principle, industrial vacuum pumps are merely compressors run with the inlet attached to the vacuum system and the outlet open to exhaust. In smaller sizes, compressors and vacuum pumps are often ...

A rigid mounting method has further disadvantages: The rotor cannot oscillate freely and the existing minimum residual imbalance can lead to possible bearing failure and rotor damage over time.

Installing a Mini Split is an affordable garage upgrade! This tutorial demonstrates how to save up to half the cost of a Mr ...