In the power engineering industry, especially in MRO situations, time is of the essence. Every second of downtime represents lost revenue. A shutdown during repair or modification of a piping system ...

When many older plants were built, steel and cast iron piping were common materials used underground. Although these materials have proven to have long, useful lives, improvements in plastics offer ...

A great level of risk is present when operating pressurized systems. Over the years, industry safety concerns have increased with the occurence of catastrophic events. To help prevent further loss and ...

According to the Government Accountability Office, just over 42 GW or about 13 percent of coal-fired capacity has been retired since 2012 or is planned for retirement by 2025. The coming years will ...

Ever since we installed Holley's SysteMAX II package on our '93 LX, we've been struggling to get it to run right. It seemed to run best at 3/4 throttle, but as soon as we put it to the floor, the ...

This file type includes high resolution graphics and schematics. Piping systems are often not self-supporting because of routing, length, and weight factors. Weight loads include the weights of pipes, ...

Over the past decade, the use of heat pipes in electronic cooling applications has increased dramatically, primarily in notebook computers. In fact, virtually every notebook computer manufactured ...

With oil prices recently at record highs, people—homeowners especially—have been looking for ways to save money on things such as heating costs. What many of them don’t realize is that they’re ...

Scientific American is part of Springer Nature, which owns or has commercial relations with thousands of scientific publications (many of them can be found at www ...

OSHA said both U.S. Steel Corp. and Power Piping Co. failed to provide an effective energy control procedure, which resulted in an explosion at the Clairton Works in which workers suffered burns and ...