The Consulting Engineer’s Guide to Advanced Electric Boiler Technology
07 Oct
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The Consulting Engineer’s Guide to Advanced Electric Boiler Technology

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Technology tamfitronics For consulting engineers tasked with planning, designing, and supervising construction projects for a wide range of industries, advanced electric boilers—particularly high voltage electrode boilers—offer numerous advantages over traditional fossil fuel burning boilers. Due to advances in technology, these boilers can match the capacity (up to 65 MW) and output (270,000 pounds of steam per hour) of traditional gas or oil-fired boilers in a much smaller footprint while converting almost all the energy to heat.These zero-emission, high voltage electrode boilers are used in diverse environments for applications such as centralized heating, power plants, nuclear stations, swing-load balancing, solar/wind energy consumption, and fuel boiler replacement.Acme BoilersThe ultra-efficient, electric boiler design eliminates many environmental issues associated with fuel burning boilers, such as fuel fumes, fly ash, and large obtrusive exhaust stacks.Today, there is growing interest in...
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NASA Marshall Engineers Unveil Versatile, Low-cost Hybrid Engine Testbed
13 Jul
Science & Technology

NASA Marshall Engineers Unveil Versatile, Low-cost Hybrid Engine Testbed

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NASA Space Technology In June, engineers at NASA’s Marshall Space Flight Center in Huntsville, Alabama, unveiled an innovative, 11-inch hybrid rocket motor testbed.The new hybrid testbed, which features variable flow capability and a 20-second continuous burn duration, is designed to provide a low-cost, quick-turnaround solution for conducting hot-fire tests of advanced nozzles and other rocket engine hardware, composite materials, and propellants.Solid rocket propulsion remains a competitive, reliable technology for various compact and heavy-lift rockets as well as in-space missions, offering low propulsion element mass, high energy density, resilience in extreme environments, and reliable performance.“It’s time consuming and costly to put a new solid rocket motor through its paces – identifying how materials perform in extreme temperatures and under severe structural and dynamic loads,” said Benjamin Davis, branch chief of the Solid Propulsion and Pyrotechnic Devices...
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