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OPERATIONS AND MAINTENANCE
54 CO2 Blasting Restores HRSG Performance
Cleaning a heat recovery steam generator (HRSG) with pressurized carbon dioxide
is generally recognized as a cleaning best practice. Two case studies demonstrate its
benefits, as well as the advantage of on-site gas pellet production.
FUNDAMENTALS
58 Typical Causes of Slagging and Fouling Problems in Boilers
If you've got a coal-fired power plant, you've got slagging and fouling. Although
there's no way to completely eliminate these maintenance problems, you can mitigate
them if you understand the contributing causes.
ELECTRIC POWER
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62 DOE Highlights Challenges to Infrastructure in Quadrennial Energy Review
Our highlights from the general sessions at the 2015 ELECTRIC POWER Conference
& Exhibition begin with a summary of the keynote speaker's comments regarding
the first part of the first-ever Quadrennial Energy Review.
64 Clean Power Plan Is Achievable, but Challenges Loom Large
This year's " Environmental Mega Session " panelists at ELECTRIC POWER discussed
and debated the viability of the proposed Clean Power Plan and offered their suggestions
for improvement.
66 Executives Say Power Sector Faces Fundamental Changes
The proposed Clean Power Plan was also a hot topic during the Executive Roundtable.
While recognizing that change is a given, panelists disagreed on what that
should mean for policy implementation.
DEPARTMENTS
SPEAKING OF POWER
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6 From STEM to STEAM Education
GLOBAL MONITOR
8 A Spring Nuclear Upheaval
8 Fabrication Begins for ITER Fusion Reactor Central Solenoid
10 THE BIG PICTURE: The Job Transition
1 1 EU to Investigate Measures to Ensure Power Supply
12 New U.S. Offshore Wind Farm Breaks Ground
12 Reports: Renewables Were Revived in 2014
13 Last Module Is Installed at 250-MW Copper Mountain PV Project
13 POWER Digest
FOCUS ON O&M
16 Optical Gas Imaging Camera Offers Hydrogen Leak Detection Solution
LEGAL & REGULATORY
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20 CAISO Goes Big and Leaves Home
By Thomas W. Overton, JD
COMMENTARY
84 10 Million Tons of CO2 Stored
By Christopher A. Smith, assistant secretary for fossil energy, Department of Energy
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