On my first project as a combustion control engineer, I was responsible for loop checks and for watching the experts tune the system controls. The first loop I tried to tune solo was the drum level ...

We’ll travel out of town for this column, sixty miles north to the city of Dayton, Ohio, which was an industrial hub back in the day. Machine tools made in my hometown, Cincinnati, were shipped to ...

Boilers have enormous thermal mass and are relatively slow to react. Turbines are nimble and quickly answer an operator’s command. Coordinating an entire plant requires an intimate knowledge of both ...