Pneumatic furnace damper drives may be more common, but electro-hydraulic actuators provide several advantages to the more traditional control scheme. One fossil-fired plant in Taiwan achieved more ...

With environmental and economic constraints driving power plants towards cleaner and more efficient operations, it is imperative that the main process in a fossil-fueled boiler, combustion, should be ...

A gas supply operation in North America commissioned three new steam boilers in a plant expansion project that included a Robinson forced draft (FD) fan on each boiler. During the boiler start-up in a ...

CSD-1 is a standard developed by American Society of Mechanical Engineers (ASME) and covers “Controls and Safety Devices for Automatically Fired Boilers.” The previous edition was released in 2018, ...

Power plants–especially coal-fired boilers–pose a set of process control problems unparalleled in other industries. Rapid load ramps, continuous unit demand changes, variable fuel quality and process ...

Save money on your heating bills by controlling when your boiler is on and how hard it's working - we explain how, below. Many domestic boilers are only set up to be on or off. Modern condensing ...