If you're in the power generation industry and attending (or considering attending) next week's Power-Gen International conference in Orlando, Florida USA, make sure to connect with the Emerson team in Booth 1849. They are ready to listen to the challenges you face...
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...
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...
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...
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...
For readers based in the U.K. or with travel plans that brings you there next week, I wanted to highlight an Emerson Power Generation Seminar & Technology Fair taking place next week. The first session will be October 22 in Glasgow and the second one will be...
Electrical power producers are challenged with changing mixes of fuel sources due to economics, government incentives and hurdles, and technical challenges from variable sources such as solar and wind power. Emerson's Douglas Morris, a member of the Power and Mining...
Gasification technologies can reduce the emissions from coal used for electrical power generation. Emerson's Alan Novak, Director of the Mining and Power industry teams, provides an update on some projects coming online. Duke Energy recently announced commercial...
In the Emerson Exchange 365 community, I saw a post announcing a February 16-17, 2012 Regional Technical Forum for Ovation system users. I got my hands on a few of the presentations, which I hope to share with you over the next few weeks. Emerson's Mike DeKlavon, a...
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