Major failures of superheater and reheater outlet headers are relatively infrequent. But when headers do fail, repairing them may take weeks, and replacing them may take up to six months. Forced ...

All power plant equipment has a limited lifetime, but not all components age at the same rate. Some equipment may outlast the useful life of a plant, while other machinery may be replaced more than ...

For many of the new European supercritical coal-fired plants, builders are turning their attention to a heat exchanger technology that offers convincing technical and economic advantages over ...