Coal-fired plants have been powering the electric grid for more than a hundred years, but the technology being used in them is not stagnant, as many advancements have been made. One new design—the ...

Chaotan One, the world’s first commercial power generator that uses supercritical carbon dioxide (sCO2) instead of steam, has begun operations in China. This achievement breaks a century-old tradition ...

Westinghouse Electric Company has signed a contract with Dominion Energy to design, engineer and manufacture six replacement steam generators for Surry nuclear power station in Virginia in the USA.

The Tennessee Valley Authority’s Watts Bar Unit 2 is America’s newest commercial nuclear reactor and may also have the newest set of steam generators. The Steam Generating Team (SGT), a joint venture ...

Japanese electrical equipment company Fuji Electric is currently developing a new type of steam-generating heat pump that recycles heat energy from wastewater generated at factories and industrial ...

The first of Koeberg 1's steam generators has been removed in a project that will see all three of the South African unit's steam generators replaced in anticipation of its extended operation. The ...

Many power plant personnel are aware that chemistry upsets in a steam generator may cause severe corrosion and failure of boiler waterwall tubes and other components. These failures place the staff at ...