Author: Douglas Morris Everyone knows that gas generation is becoming more and more common for baseload power. It's a proven, reliable, and less carbon intensive fossil technology for generating electricity. Plants that use it are also subject to some additional...
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Power Plant Monitoring
Author: Douglas Morris Wireless measurement devices are nothing new and installations are in just about every industry, including power. From my experience, power plants don't choose to use wireless technologies to replace wired devices, rather they are used to solve...
Improving Reliability in Power Generation: A Competitive Advantage
Author: Douglas Morris Recently, the consulting arm of Black & Veatch published its annual strategic directions report for the US utility industry. In 2014 "reliability" was again identified as the top industry concern. This report discusses how technology will...
Renewables and the Cost of Electricity in the EU
Author: Douglas Morris Germany has established itself as a leader in developing renewable power and has accelerated its efforts since the Fukushima nuclear accident in 2011. To date, the share of renewable generation in Germany exceeds 25 percent. To spur development,...
The Graying Workforce-Is It Really True in Power Industry?
Author: Douglas Morris The discussion about the impact of changing demographics has been around for a long time, but is it really taking place? I think this fact courtesy of the US Bureau of Labor Statistics (2010) says it all: Half of the electric utility workforce...
Effective Measurement of Mining Slurries
Author: Douglas Morris Automation and control in mining can be difficult on a number of fronts. The first being constantly changing ore which varies in grade and hardness and causes different parts of the processing plant to become limiting to operations. A second...
Improving HRSG Availability by Better Steam Temperature Control
Author: Douglas Morris A while back, I wrote about using advanced control techniques to reduce steam temperature swings which can lead to boiler unavailability. Control improvements are one method to address this problem, but so is evaluating the mechanicals in the...
Resource Nationalization: We’ve Seen This Story Before
Author: Douglas Morris Mark Twain once wrote "History doesn't repeat itself, but it does rhyme." An article this week in the Financial Times reminds me of how resource nationalization in mining, when taken too far, tends to rhyme. The FT article, Indonesia’s gamble on...
A Path for Cleaner Coal
Author: Douglas Morris Coal fired power receives a lot of attention and is in the news again with the recent ruling by the U.S. Supreme Court upholding the Environmental Protection Agency (EPA)'s ability to regulate air pollution from coal-burning power plants. Right...
Condition Monitoring of Hydroelectric Plants
Author: Douglas MorrisThings are not getting easier for the power industry as it experiences increasing complexity with dispatching generating units. Because dispatching is determined by a host of factors including cost, demand, transmission, environmental constraints...
Energy Industry Leaders Gather at CERAWeek 2014
Author: Douglas MorrisThe 33rd annual CERAWeek Conference, led by Daniel Yergin, was held this week in Houston, Texas USA. This year's event very much echoed the theme from the last couple of conferences and focused on unconventional oil and gas. The effects of these...
Successful Miners are Efficient Miners
Efficiency projects benefit process manufacturers across many industries. This is particularly true in the mining industry as Emerson's Douglas Morris describes in today's post. It's well known that the mining industry has hit a small rough patch; the lowering demand...
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