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Six reasons to attend the 2025 Air-Cooled Condenser Users Group (ACCUG) Conference in Granbury, Texas

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Each year, the Air-Cooled Condenser Users Group (ACCUG) brings together engineers, plant managers, OEM experts, and operations professionals to tackle the most pressing challenges facing air-cooled condenser (ACC) systems. In 2025, this highly anticipated gathering returns to Granbury, Texas—a fitting venue for an event dedicated to advancing power plant cooling technologies in water-constrained environments. With […]

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BOILER VALVES: Avoid Stellite delamination with alternative hardfacing

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By Richard Laukam, ValvTechnologies LLC Steam stop valves, located at the boiler outlet, provide isolation. These typically are wedge-type gate valves, stop-check valves, or parallel-slide gate valves. Hardfacing often is applied to the seat and closing member (wedge, plug, or discs) to reduce wear and extend the duration of leak-free service. Hardfacing is the building

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Combined Cycle Users Group: 2023 vendor presentation recaps

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“Mastering Desuperheating and Attemperation,” Ory Selzer, IMI Insyt Almost 200 slides long, this presentation could serve as a comprehensive training course on what can and does go wrong with two of the most vexing subsystems in the steam cycle, as well as solutions. Instructor sets the stage with numerous photos of component failures (Fig 6),

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Steam Turbine Users Group: 2023 vendor presentation recaps

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Related Links What you shouldn’t miss at the upcoming Power Users Annual Conference featuring five user group tracks Power Users Annual Conference dives deep into emerging industry trends, concerns Combined Cycle Users Group: 2023 vendor presentation recaps Steam Turbine Users Group: 2023 vendor presentation recaps Generator Users Group: 2023 vendor presentation recaps Power Plant Controls

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Power Users Annual Conference dives deep into emerging industry trends, concerns

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Quality of work, changing missions challenge aging plants Related Links What you shouldn’t miss at the upcoming Power Users Annual Conference featuring five user group tracks Power Users Annual Conference dives deep into emerging industry trends, concerns Combined Cycle Users Group: 2023 vendor presentation recaps Steam Turbine Users Group: 2023 vendor presentation recaps Generator Users

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What you shouldn’t miss at the upcoming Power Users Annual Conference featuring five user group tracks

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2024 Combined Conference overview for CCUG, STUG, GUG, PPCUG, and LCPG Related Links What you shouldn’t miss at the upcoming Power Users Annual Conference featuring five user group tracks Power Users Annual Conference dives deep into emerging industry trends, concerns Combined Cycle Users Group: 2023 vendor presentation recaps Steam Turbine Users Group: 2023 vendor presentation

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Golden Nuggets from the Steam Turbine Users Group: Part 6

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With the 2023 Steam Turbine Users Group (STUG) approaching August 28-31 in Atlanta, part of the greater Power Users Combined Conference, reviewing some of the content from last year’s meeting should encourage you to attend or send someone from your organization to experience this valuable content in person. Presentation abstracts below are based on information available only to end users in the

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Golden Nuggets from the Steam Turbine Users Group: Part 5

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With the 2023 Steam Turbine Users Group (STUG) approaching August 28-31 in Atlanta, part of the greater Power Users Combined Conference, reviewing some of the content from last year’s meeting should encourage you to attend or send someone from your organization to experience this valuable content in person. Presentation abstracts below are based on information available only to end users in the

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Golden Nuggets from the Steam Turbine Users Group: Part 4

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With the 2023 Steam Turbine Users Group (STUG) approaching August 28-31 in Atlanta, part of the greater Power Users Combined Conference, reviewing some of the content from last year’s meeting should encourage you to attend or send someone from your organization to experience this valuable content in person. Presentation abstracts below are based on information available only to end users in the

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