Manuel A. Fontan, ERS, for Zondits Steam has an important role in our everyday lives, although we don’t always realize all that it’s doing for us. It can be found virtually in any industry or technology that requires heat, moisture, sterilization, and other crucial processes. Steam can be used to heat the water in our […]
Coating technology promises to increase energy efficiency at power plants Beta Boston, September 28, 2015. Image credit: www.gipom.com DropWise, the brainchild of two Massachusetts Institute of Technology professors, Kripa Varanasi and Karen Gleason, and two of their students, is a coating technology for heat exchangers in power plants and chemical refineries. In a power plant, fuel […]
Ryan Pollin for Zondits, April 6, 2015 Researchers at Drexel University have achieved exciting progress with their innovation of an age-old process: boiling. We rely on boiling in conventional steam-turbine plants, whether they are heated by coal, gas, nuclear materials, or concentrated solar – which means that this innovation has massive retrofit applications for almost […]
