Eskom operates 23 power stations in South Africa with a total capacity of more than 42 GW. It supplies about 95% of all the electricity used in the country. One of its coal-fired power stations was ...

In this installment of Weekly Boiler Tips Jude walks through two methods for testing a low water cutoff: the standard daily blowdown and the slow drain method.

Forced outages of steam boilers due to tube leakages remain the leading cause of lost production in plants. Due to hundreds, if not thousands of linear feet of pipe, there is a high potential for ...

Water gage glasses continue to be a vital instrument on power boilers that are constructed to comply with the requirements of the American Society of Mechanical Engineers’ (ASME’s) Boiler and Pressure ...

A magnetic level gage may be an excellent addition to a power plant boiler’s drum-level instrumentation. However, before any changes are made, owners must first understand the specific minimum ...