The best way to optimize the value of older, unregulated, supercritical coal-fired plants is to implement a long-term maintenance strategy that positions them to compete in the low cost regime of ...

For decades, the basics of plant growth have been taught in grade school: Plants make their food out of water from the soil, light from the sun and carbon dioxide from the air in a process called ...

Operators are under increasing pressure to find ways to improve the dispatch capability of their combined cycle facilities. Increased penetration of renewable generation has resulted, and will ...

Plants are classified as annuals, biennials or perennials based on their life cycles. Biennials, like foxglove, have a vegetative year followed by a flowering year. Perennials, including woody shrubs ...

In a single-shaft configuration, both prime movers (the gas and steam turbines) are on one shaft line connected by a synchronous self-shifting (SSS) clutch, and they drive a single, common generator ...