Newsletters
| 10/2015 | Diagnosing Pulverizer Problems | Download |
| 7/2015 | Large Utility Boiler Design Considerations for Cycling and Low Load Operation | Download |
| 3/2015 | Cycling of Large Utility Boilers, Some Thoughts to Consider | Download |
| 8/2014 | The Storm Approach to Achieving Optimization Pulverizer Performance | Download |
| 1/2014 | IS YOUR PLANT READY FOR MATS/MACT in 2014-2015? | Download |
| 5/2013 | Coal Fired Boiler Optimization and the Impact on Emission Control Devices | Download |
| 3/2013 | Three Tips on Applying Performance Driven Maintenance | Download |
| 11/2012 | Performance Driven Maintenance for Pulverized Coal Fueled Plants | Download |
| 10/2012 | Measurement of Combustion Airflow: Why Venturis and Flow Nozzles are the Best Primary Elements for Measurement | Download |
| 8/2012 | “A Test is Worth a Thousand Words” Performance Driven Maintenance is the Solution | Download |
| 6/2012 | Yes, There is a War on Coal! But Somebody has to keep the lights on! | Download |
| 4/2012 | Maintenance vs. Manpower: How can performance driven maintenance be accomplished with lean power plant staffing? | Download |
| 2/3/11 | Spring Outages Are Just Around the Corner: Did you know that 9 of STORMs Thirteen Essentials for Optimized Combustion for Low NOX Burners in PC Fired Boilers deal with pulverizer performance? Well it is true, and we treat the pulverizer as the heart of the pulverized coal boiler system. | Download |
| 09/19/2011 | Airflow Measurement: The Growing Importance of Accurate and Reliable Combustion | Download |
| 5/3/2011 | Five Commonly Found Problems: Here are five problems that we find with great frequency in pulverized coal fueled boilers. | Download |
| 05/19/2011 | Pulverizers 101: Part 3 Why Precise Measurement and Control of Primary Air is Important | Download |
| 4/15/2011 | Pulverizers 101: Part 2 What is Good Pulverizer Performance and How Can it be Measured? | Download |
| 4/4/2011 | Pulverizers 101: Part 1 The Storm Approach to Coal Pulverizer Optimization | Download |
| 3/23/2011 | Meeting MACT Compliance: Are you ready? Learn how Storm can help you meet MACT compliance in this newsletter. | Download |
| 2/15/2011 | Spring Outage & Expedited Outage and Replacement Parts: Are you aware of Storms Capabilities to Provide Expedited Outage Repairs and Replacement Parts? |
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| 10/22/2010 | What Distinguishes Storm from our Competition? We are not just a testing company; we provide results with engineered solutions! | Download |
| 9/7/2010 | Meeting MACT Compliance: Are you ready? | Download |
| 8/23/2010 | There Are Alternatives to Your OEM Alliance | Download |
| 8/18/2010 | Expedited Outage Repairs and Replacement Parts: We are able to provide our products in an immediate time frame. Contact us for more information. | Download |
| 7/20/2010 | Who is Going to Educate the General Public on the Facts of Energy? It is time to set the record straight on the importance of abundant, reasonable cost and secure energy supplies for our continued economic prosperity and way of life. | Download |
| 7/8/2010 | Invest Maintenance Dollars Wisely: Use a comprehensive diagnostic test to develop outage work scope. Here is an outline of how STORM does it. | Download |
| 6/22/2010 | How to Achieve High Load Factor: This month the focus is on reasons 8 and 9: operation at high capacity with maximum reliability. | Download |
| 6/8/2010 | The Story Behind the STORM Fan Boosted Overfire Air System: Storm has designed and effectively implemented several fan boosted overfire air systems. The success has been very good. | Download |
| 5/26/2010 | Storm Technologies manufacturers heavy-duty fine cut riffles that are nearly 50% thicker than typically designed and have solid dividers. Read more about here. | Download |
| 5/18/2010 | Reliable Power Generation in Peak Summer Months: Obtain maximum capacity, reliability efficiency and environmental equipment friendliness during the summer months. | Download |
| 5/4/2010 | The Benefits of Flow Nozzles and Venturies: Practical, Reliable, Accurate, Repeatable, Simple to Calibrate, Economical and Low Un-Recovered Pressure Drop | Download |
| 4/15/2010 | Supporting America’s Manufacturing with Low Cost Energy: Stop the carbon tax and energy bill to keep manufacturing alive in the USA. | Download |
| 4/7/2010 | The Devil is in the Details | Download |
| 12/16/2009 | Coal Ash Chemistry Slag Management 101 | Download |
| 12/01/2009 | #1 Controllable Stealth Loss – Boiler Air In-Leakage | Download |
| 10/20/2009 | CFB Boilers and Optimization | Download |
| 09/23/2009 | The Cost Impact of Poor Airheater Performance | Download |
| 09/10/2009 | 2010 Winter Short Courses: 2-Day Fundamentals & Advanced | Download |
| 08/19/2009 | The Impact of Furnace Performance on the Reliability of Superheater and Reheater Metals | Download |
| 07/31/2009 | A Practical Approach to Biomass Firing | Download |
| 06/10/2009 | Considering the Economics of Combustion Optimization | Download |
| 05/01/2009 | How Storm’s Resources Can Be Utilized for Measurement and Control of Airflow | Download |
| 03/06/2009 | Applying the Fundamentals for the Stretching of Available Maintenance Dollars | Download |
| 03/02/2009 | 2009 Summer Short Courses Dates have been set for Las Vegas, NV and Charlotte, NC. | Download |
| 02/01/2009 | 2009 Spring/Fall Outage Planning and Cost Effective Results | Download |
| 01/12/2009 | Four Suggested New Year’s Resolutions for Coal Plants | Download |
| 01/01/2009 | Storm Manufacturing Capabilities: Details of Storm’s manufacturing capabilities included with our January 2009 newsletter. | Download |
Articles
| 12/2015 | Coal Pulverizer Maintenance Improves Boiler Combustion: Power Magazine December 2015 | Download |
| 6/2015 | Typical Causes of Slagging and Fouling Problems in Boilers: Power Magazine June 2015 | Download |
| 7/2013 | World Coal: Why Remembering the Fundamentals Can Yield Cost-Effective Results in Coal Combustion | Download |
| 11/5/2010 | The Benefits of Applying the Fundamentals: Coalblog November 2010 | Download |
| 10/11/2010 | Coal Power Magazine October 2010: Pulverized Coal Pipe Testing and Balancing | Download |
| 10/3/2009 | Measuring Coal Pipe Flow: Power Magazine October 2009 | Download |
| 3/2/2009 | Blueprint Your Pulverizer: Power Magazine March 2009 | Download |
| 12/1/2008 | Getting the Most From Boilers, Industrial Fuels: Power Magazine December 2008 | Download |
| 10/1/2008 | Finessing Fuel Fineness: Power Magazine October 2008 | Download |
| 6/1/2008 | Boiler Optimization Increases Fuel Flexibility: Power Magazine June 2008 | Download |
| 3/1/2008 | Quality Counts: World Coal Magazine March 2008 | Download |
| 10/1/2007 | Managing Air to Improve Combustion Efficiency: Power Magazine October 2007 | Download |
| 2/1/2007 | To Optimize Performance, Begin at the Pulverizers: Power Magazine February 2007 | Download |
| 10/1/2006 | Apply the Fundamentals to Improve Emissions Performance: Power Magazine October 2006 | Download |
| 9/1/2006 | Crush It, Pulverize It and Burn It: World Coal Magazine September 2006 | Download |
| 3/2005 | How stealth combustion losses lower plant efficiency | Download |
| 10/1993 | Optimizing combustion in boilers with low-NOx burners: Power Magazine October 1993 | Download |
Papers & Presentations
| 2017 | Combustion, Reliability, and Heat Rate Improvements through Mill Performance and Applying the Essentials | Download |
| 7/29/2015 | IMPROVING COAL PLANT EFFICIENCY RMEL Plant Management Conference 2015 |
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| 2014 | Typical Opportunities for Heat Rate Improvement Found in Todays PC Plants EPRI Heat Rate Conference 2014 |
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| 3/6/2013 | EPRI 2013 – Coal Fired Boiler Optimization and the Impact on Emission Control Devices | Download |
| 2/5/2013 | Performance Driven Maintenance of Coal Pulverizers Importance of Mill Performance Testing |
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| 6/14/2012 | ONE MORE TIME: FIRST APPLY THE FUNDAMENTALS! RMEL Plant Management Conference | Download |
| 6/28/2011 | Efficiency Improvements to the Existing Coal-Fired Fleet ACC Fuel Flex 2011 |
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| 6/16/2011 | Why Coal is Important for America ASME Annual Meeting 2011 |
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| 4/14/2011 | Coal – America’s Treasure of Energy America needs more clean coal! Learn why Coal is America’s Treasure of Energy. Our key to economic prosperity and a strong America starts by building things again. |
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| 8/20/2010 | Efficiency Improvements to the Existing Coal-Fueled Fleet Coal Gen 2010 – Presentation |
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| 6/10/2010 | Experiences with Regenerative Air Heater Performance Evaluations & Optimization. RAI, Amsterdam, Holland Power Gen Europe 2010 – Technical Paper |
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| 5/19/2010 | Real Time Furnace Air In-leakage Monitoring on Coal, Oil and/or Gas Fired Boilers Technical paper presented at the Electric Power Conference 2010. |
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| 10/7/2009 | An Update on Performance Optimization and Efficiency Improvement Programs… Power Gen Asia 2009: Paper presented at Impact Exhibition & Convention Centre 7-9 October 2009 Bangkok, Thailand |
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| 2/1/2009 | The Unintended Consequences of New Source Review (NSR). Imagine What the Utility Industry Could do without NSR. EPRI Heat Rate Conference February 2009 |
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| 11/13/2008 | Combustion Optimization by Application of the Fundamentals as it Relates to Illinois Basin Coal 2nd Annual Illinois Basin Coal Symposium |
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| 10/31/2008 | Energy and the Environment Did you ever think about what energy does for Americans or how energy and economic prosperity are related? |
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| 10/8/2008 | Energy – use, where it comes from and why it is important | Download |
| 10/6/2008 | Enhancing Public Perception of Coal 2008 American Coal Council Coal Market Strategies Conference |
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| 7/29/2008 | Maximizing Plant Performance 2008 Fuel Flexibility Conference Strategies & Tactics for Coal Consumers |
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| 5/7/2008 | The Extreme Importance of Total Air & Fuel Flow Measurement on a 450MW B&W Wall Fired Unit Firing High Sulfur Fuels ASME International Electric Power Conference 2008, Baltimore, MD |
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| 3/6/2006 | A Case Study of How Vertical Spindle Pulverizer Performance is Related to Overall Plant Performance Paper to be Presented at the ASME International Electric Power Conference April 2006 |
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| 3/6/2006 | Achieving Simulataneous NOx and Combustion Improvements on a 90MW T-Fired Unit by Applying the Fundamentals Paper to be Presented at the ASME International Electric Power Conference April 2006 |
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| 12/20/2005 | A Comprehensive Approach to NOx Reduction without Low NOx Burners Paper Presented at the ASME International Electric Power Conference April 2005 |
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| 12/20/2005 | Carbon Content Reduction and Improved Electrostatic Precipitator Performance by Fuel Line Clean Air Balancing Presented at ASME 1995 |
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| 12/20/2003 | “The Thirteen Essentials of Optimum Combustion for Low NOx Burners” Presentation detailing the 13 Essentials of Optimum Combustion |
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| 4/20/2003 | Optimizing Performance by Applying the Fundamentals Presented at the EPRI Conference, 2003 |
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| 10/1/2003 | Practical Diagnostic Tests to Identify Opportunities to Improve Heat Rate, Reliability, and Capacity Variables International Conference on Thermal Power Generation. New Delhi, India. October 2003 |
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| 6/24/2002 | Performance Improvements at the Boardman Coal Plant as a Result of Testing and Input/Loss Monitoring Presented at the International Joint Power Generation Conference by David A.T. Rodgers, P.E. of Portland General Electric Company and Fred D. Lang, P.E. of Exergetic Systems, Inc. |
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| 5/13/1997 | Three Years Operating Experience at a NOx Limit of 0.33 lbs./MBtu with Flyash Carbon Content Less Than 5% Third Annual Conference on Unburned Carbon on Utility Flyash sponsored by the DOE |
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| 4/1/1997 | Time and Cost Effective Repairs to Boiler In-Leakage Presented to the American Power Conference |
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| 1/1/1996 | Performance Combustion and Reliability Optimization of a 360MW Unit Firing 90% Pulverized Coal and 10% Municipal Solid Waste Presented at the PowerGen in 1996 |
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| 12/31/1995 | Performance Optimization of a Boiler Equipped with Low NOx Burners Presented at the PowerGen in 1995 |
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| 4/20/1995 | A Comprehensive Common Sense Approach to Low NOx Combustion in Pulverized Coal Fired Boilers Presented at IJPGC ASME 1995 |
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| 4/24/1991 | Pulverizer Coal Boiler Optimization Through Fuel/Air ControlPaper Presented at the Thirtieth Annual Kentucky Coal Utilization Conference, University of Kentucky |
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| 1/1/1987 | Coal Fired Boiler Performance Improvements Through Combustion Optimization ASME 1987 |
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Public Awareness
| 8/23/2012 | How Coal Improves Our Environment by Alex Epstein | YouTube Video |
| 10/5/2010 | Boiler MACT Scenario Planning Workshop Neundorfer Training Facility, Willoughby, Ohio. November 9 and 10, 2010. |
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| 9/30/2010 | MACT Rule The Economic Impact of Proposed EPA Boiler/Process Heater MACT Rule on Industrial, Commercial, and Institutional Boiler and Process Heater Operators |
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| 7/21/2010 | America Does Not Run On Batteries Why responsible use of all domestic energy sources is important. |
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| 6/20/2010 | Index of US Energy Security Risk Assessing America’s Vulnerablities in A Global Energy Market |
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| 1/18/2010 | Storm Named Business of the Year Storm Technologies, Inc. (STI) was named the Small Business of the Year at the Stanly County Chamber of Commerce annual meeting. |
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| 11/25/2009 | Storm Technologies Received 2009 Governor’s Award Storm Technologies Received 2009 Governor’s Award for Excellence in Workforce Development as Outstanding Employer |
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| 1/26/2009 | A Common Sense Plan to Re-invigorate American manufacturing and Increase Economic Prosperity in America | Download |
| 10/3/2008 | Enhancing Public Perception of Coal | Download |
| 5/29/2008 | The Interrelationships of Energy, Environmental Extremism, Economic Prosperity and Education | Download |
| 5/28/2008 | Public Radio Service Annoucements Want to know more about the need for new energy production and how it affects our economy? Access our podcasts of the Storm Technologies Energy Fact Minutes. |
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| 4/22/2008 | Coal: Our National Treasure | Download |
| 9/1/2007 | Some Reasons Why America Needs to Produce More of Our Own Energy | Download |
| 12/20/2005 | Why Do We Need a National Energy Policy Advertisement submitted and ran in the Stanly News and Press |
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| 12/20/2005 | Want Jobs? Think New Power Plants “Think: How Important is Energy to You?” |
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| 12/20/2005 | The 4 E’s: Energy, Environment, Economy, Education | Download |