San Miguel Electric Cooperative Inc. owns a single-unit power plant located about an hour south of San Antonio, near Christine, Texas. Its Unit 1 is a 440-MW lignite-fired boiler with a history of ...

Accumulation of slag in coal-fired boilers increases maintenance costs and forces power reductions. Slag can develop into piano-size clinkers that break loose from the boiler walls and plunge hundreds ...

As the mystery into the cause of blast in the boiler of NTPC Unchahar power plant deepened, the All India Power Engineers Federation (AIPEF), comprising power generation experts, said that the ...

Apart from huge accumulation of ash in the furnace, the problem also got aggravated when the coal powder which was pumped into the furnace developed a `clinker formation' (coagulation of powder).