Over the years I have worked with a variety of power plant engineers. In doing so, I’ve had the pleasure of knowing 1. The highly respected, seasoned old engineer who knows the plant like the “back of ...

The well-received coal-fired plant operator staffing benchmarking study published in POWER in September 2004 by the EUCG was recently joined by two additional studies: one of plant-level engineering ...

Plant design engineering is a wide term. It includes all those engineers who are involved in research, design, planning and creation of any automated production processes. They often have a background ...

Plant automation has historically been the responsibility of the control system engineer—you know, the instrumentation guy, the DCS guy, the PLC and HMI guy. Interfaces were straightforward with ...

There is great incentive to genetically engineer crops that possess desirable traits like greater biomass production and resistance to pathogens while requiring less resources, including space and ...

Collaboration was the main success factor in the deployment of an all-carrier enterprise distributed antenna system (DAS) for a Midwest power plant. A power plant in the Midwestern U.S. (Figure 1) ...

Recently, biofuels have received increasing global attention because of finite reserves of fossil fuels, which particularly affects industrialized nations, and an increased knowledge of the effect of ...