Today’s feedwater heater rebuilding companies can rebuild aging units in a matter of weeks, while new replacement units can take a year or two to manufacture. In many cases, rebuilding can proceed ...

Figure 1 below illustrates the water/steam schematic of a coal-fired unit from the last century. Figure 1. Flow path of a large, drum-type coal unit. Note the closed feedwater heaters and the one open ...

Nuclear power plant outages are filled with intense work and tight schedules. A feedwater heater replacement project at Duke Energy’s Oconee station in South Carolina shows how teamwork coupled with ...

Long-time POWER readers may remember Marmaduke Surfaceblow, a fictional character whose engineering escapades were brilliantly portrayed in hundreds of stories published within POWER magazine’s pages ...

Framatome has completed the first of 12 low-pressure feedwater heater replacements at Arizona Public Service's Palo Verde nuclear power plant as part of a seven-year campaign to replace all the ...

Oconee Nuclear Station engaged its contractors eight months before a complicated feedwater heater replacement project was set to begin. To execute the project successfully, contractor Day & Zimmerman ...

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