If you’re in charge of a boiler, you likely know that boiler corrosion is the enemy. Exposure of iron in the system to water and oxygen creates corrosion. The metal reacts chemically and disintegrates ...

During the heyday of coal-fired power plant construction and operation in the last century, many lessons were learned regarding correct water/steam chemistry control in high-pressure, fossil-fuel ...

PWSA's public water supply permit, approved in 1995, requires the use of soda ash for corrosion control, according to the DEP’s press release. Soda ash, or sodium carbonate, is used because of its ...

PORT ARTHUR, Texas (Reuters) - In the end, all it took was a small chemical spill -- perhaps less than a barrelful -- to bring down the newest, mightiest oil refinery in the United States. Three weeks ...

A Chemical Safety & Hazard Investigation Board report and safety video released last week shows that stress corrosion cracking in the wall of a 50-foot-tall, high-pressure crystal production vessel ...

Reuters has the inside story on what caused a new state-of-the-art oil refinery – the biggest U.S. refinery built in the U.S. in a decade -- in Port Arthur, Texas, to shut down 11 days ago. The ...