Moving thousands of tons of coal per hour at high speeds through a complex handling system is a main cause of airborne coal dust in a coal-fired plant. Depending upon the coal’s characteristics, that ...

Aug. 4, 2021 -- Fire and safety innovators and leading manufacturers have partnered to ensure apparatus operators can focus on the fireground by pairing innovative technology with a truck design that ...

Flow control techniques and aerodynamic improvements developed at the Georgia Institute of Technology could save the U.S. trucking industry hundreds of millions of gallons of fuel per year. Recent ...

The US Defense Advanced Research Projects Agency (DARPA) has conducted flight tests of an unsteady active flow control system on the Bell XV-15 experimental tiltrotor that promises dramatic reductions ...

The alchemy of burning any solid fuel-including coal-requires mixing fuel and air in just the right proportion at just the right time. Get the recipe wrong, and reduced efficiency and load rating will ...

“Life is difficult” is the first sentence from the book The Road Less Travelled by M. Scott Peck. In the same manner, this article starts out, “Flow control is difficult.” If it was not difficult, ...

In process flow control, there are many factors affecting variability, but the greatest contributor is the control valve’s performance. Issues associated with control valves, such as dead band, ...