The word ‘optimization’ can have various meanings and interpretations, but the benefits of optimization are straight forward: improve profitability while maintaining the same utility. Reliability has ...

Typically, when talk turns to power plant pumps, boiler feed and cooling water pumps immediately dominate the discussion. And that’s as it should be: these pumps are critical to a plant’s thermal ...

Part I of this series introduced the lead/lag control strategy as it applies to parallel pump operation and discussed the need for identifying the designer’s intent for a particular system. Part II ...

A study of a mature onshore field with more than 70 rod-pumped wells found several ways for improving pumping operations. The profitability of rod pumping is a direct function of the energy ...

The ultimate goal of every heating and cooling installation is to provide the desired indoor climate at the lowest possible energy cost. Today’s advanced control technology means that, in theory, ...

Researchers in Italy have analyzed the techno-economic viability of enhancing three pumped hydro plants in Italy with floating PV on the lower basin. They say that, with their wide results, ...