WISCONSIN ELECTRIC’S 624 MW coal-fired Presque Isle power plant recently tested the use of a condenser tube cleaning system to reduce maintenance costs. According to Ms. Sue Sorrelle, the plant’s ...

This column focuses on condenser splitting. But first, here’s a quick review of condenser flooding before covering condenser splitting to help all better understand both concepts and their advantages ...

FIGURE 1: One way to reduce the amount of extra refrigerant charge needed for condenser flooding is to split the condenser into two separate and identical condenser circuits – note the “summer/winter” ...