An ever-increasing need for steam at specific temperatures and pressures exists in many modern plants. Fortunately, significant improvements have been made to increase operational thermal efficiency and heat rates by the precise, coordinated control of the temperature, pressure and quality of this steam. 

Valmet will modernize the turbine automation and supply a new turbine controller to the Hovinsaari biomass-fired power plant in Kotka, Finland.

Process Heating Co. (PHCo), Seattle, was recently contacted by a power-generating facility that was facing a fuel-heating challenge for its combustion turbine.

The Los Angeles Department of Water and Power (LADWP) is upgrading the Scattergood Generating Station with cleaner power generating technology from GE.

GE will supply heavy-duty gas turbine combined-cycle and aeroderivative gas turbine technology for nine power plants, thanks to three contracts totaling approximately $2.7 billion that the company inked with SPE, an affiliate of Sonelgaz, Algeria’s national electricity and gas company. The addition of nearly 9 GW of electricity will help strengthen Algeria’s power sector.

Motion-to-grid energy converters are designed to convert the mechanical energy generated from renewable resources such as geothermal and biomass turbines, hydro-turbines, and concentrated solar power into electrical energy.