Boilers are essential vessels that have numerous industrial and residential purposes. Their main purpose is to produce steam. For boilers to produce steam, they first need feedwater. Boiler feed pumps ...

Times have changed. Not long ago, baseload units came online and went straight to full load for days on end. Now, those same units are being asked to cycle operations to accommodate for variable ...

Boiler feed pumps (BFPs) play a major role in the capacity and heat rate of a power-generating unit. As such, they merit routine performance testing to assess their condition and trend deficiencies to ...

The 4300 Series stainless steel condensate and boiler feed pumps are available in simplex or duplex construction. The heavy-duty, ball-bearing, close-coupled 3,450-rpm motor has a stainless steel ...

Efficiency, safety, and providing support for optimal performance are key considerations when choosing equipment to move water and fuels through a power plant. Power plant operators know the ...

Typically, when talk turns to power plant pumps, boiler feed and cooling water pumps immediately dominate the discussion. And that’s as it should be: these pumps are critical to a plant’s thermal ...

It is not yet known when commissioning tests will resume at the Olkiluoto 3 EPR in Finland as investigations into the cause of damage in the feedwater pumps continue, Teollisuuden Voima Oyj has said.

Cracks of a few centimetres have been identified in all four of the feedwater pumps of the Olkiluoto 3 EPR in Finland. Operator Teollisuuden Voima Oyj said it does not yet know the impact this will ...