Stoking the coal furnace was one of my childhood chores. I lived in the Cowenhoven building, one typical of Aspen’s older brick and stone structures. Tons of coal, delivered by the truckload, boiled ...

CHEYENNE, Wyo. – It’s longer than two city buses, weighs more than a Boeing 747 fully loaded with passengers and can pull 16 Statues of Liberty over a mountain. The Big Boy No. 4014 steam locomotive ...

They’d steal our bodies, selves, and soul. ‘Tis COAL that makes our Britain great, Upholds our commerce and our state. He was one of many from that period to celebrate the virtues of coal — and the ...

Combined heat and power (CHP), also known as cogeneration, is the simultaneous production of electricity and heat from a single fuel source, such as: natural gas, biomass, biogas, coal, waste heat, or ...

The most common problem with aging coal-fired units involves erosion of the steam turbine’s blade path. More efficient blading will increase the steam output and improve the unit’s overall heat rate.

Steam turbine-powered locomotives never really caught on. Similar to gas turbine engines, steam turbines are efficient at certain rpm, and extremely inefficient at many others. At high speeds, they ...