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The steam condenser of a power plant boiler is a critical heat exchanger in the process. Poor performance due to restricted heat transfer can have a dramatic influence on unit efficiency. And, ...

Image art by Kevin Clark via ChatGPT-5.4. The first three parts of this series outlined how water-side microbiological fouling and mineral scaling, and excess air in-leakage on the steam side, can ...

If coal and natural gas power generation were 2% more efficient, then, every year, there could be 460 million fewer tons of carbon dioxide released and 2 trillion fewer gallons of water used. A recent ...