One of the big surprises facing plants that switch from a more or less standard bituminous coal to a western coal is the increase in slagging and fouling. Many plants have reported significantly more ...

Cleaning power station boiler tube walls is a dirty and troublesome job that is not only hazardous, but can generally only be done during station down times to minimize the risk to human cleaners. To ...

Nearly 50 years ago, Norm Harty, president of N.B. Harty General Contractors Inc., was a driller and dynamite blaster for road and railway construction when Kenneth Bridegroom, a supervisor at a power ...