The Red & Black is a 501c3 nonprofit. Please consider a one-time gift or become a monthly supporter. Cancel anytime. In the early hours of Tuesday morning, the University of Georgia’s coal-fired ...

Purdue University is cleaning up its act. Its trustees voted Friday to build a $53-million boiler that will rely on new technology to burn coal more cleanly and reduce the university’s overall ...

A Russian thermal engineering institute has successfully tested the world’s first pulverized coal burner with a variable flame vector. The new type of vortex burner can adjust the flame direction ...

Virginia Tech is making its power plant cleaner for the environment. The work began in Summer 2015 when the university installed a four mile-long, 8 inch in diameter pipeline across campus. Now ...

Tests of a boiler combustion tuning system employing artificial intelligence (AI) at a Taiwanese coal-fired power unit verify improvements to fuel economy that could ultimately reduce costs by up to ...

There is currently a large dependence on coal for power generation. As coal-fired plants cause environmental and health hazards, technologies such as swirl flow and air staging have been proposed to ...

Operating pulverized coal-fired boilers under low-load conditions presents several challenges. This article offers tips to keep units in the best possible operating condition. In today’s energy market ...

Combustion Components Associates Inc. (CCA) of Monroe, Conn. signed $5.2 million worth of contracts to convert nine boiler burners to natural gas. Orders were received from four domestic industrial ...