Reducing boiler downtime – particularly from tube failures – demands constant vigilance. Boiler tube failures, especially in coal-fired power plants, continue to be the major cause of boiler forced ...

Xcel Energy’s Hayden station is located in the Northwest corner of Colorado near Steamboat Springs, Figure 1. The station has two pulverized coal-fired steam electric generating units with ...

Creeped out and fatigued—that’s the state of many coal-fired boilers these days. Understanding failure mechanisms and suitable testing methods for identifying potential trouble can help you find ...

A steam separator sometimes called a moisture separator or a steam drier, is a device used to separate the moisture from the steam in a watertube boiler steam drum. Without the steam separators, ‘wet’ ...

Superior Boiler, LLC celebrated the opening on Wednesday of a new water tube manufacturing facility that it relocated from Richmond, Virginia to Hutchinson, after considering four other sites in other ...