Jan. 10, 2003 — Safety was paramount when one of Britain’s newest power stations needed a cleaning operation on its massive air cooled condenser (ACC). The ACC was one of the largest of its kind in ...

Rosebud Operating Services Inc., located in Billings, Mont., is a 60-MW petroleum coke–fired power plant that delivers electricity to the local utility and provides processed steam to a nearby ...

OMAHA PUBLIC POWER District’s North Omaha Power Station has been operating on the west bank of the Missouri River for many years. The station has four coal-fired units with a total capacity of 600 MW.

The quality of the cooling water intake and the amount of debris in that water affects the operation and performance of the condenser and therefore the thermal performance of the typical steam plant.

There are two types of coils in an AC/refrigeration system–the evaporator and the condenser. They consist of copper or aluminum tubes with aluminum fins or microchannel tubes with fin strips. If these ...

The condenser is the most underrated component in an air conditioning or refrigeration system. Besides being a simple heat exchanger, the condenser has to desuperheat, condense, and subcool ...