The 2024 ACS Sustainability Summit explored the vital role of chemistry in advancing U.N. Sustainable Development Goal #6: Clean Water and Sanitation. Thoughout the summit, leading experts in academia ...

Power plants are engineered with precision down to the smallest detail, yet one critical variable is often considered too late in the process: water chemistry. When it’s considered early in design ...

The study of lakes and surface water chemistry is pivotal in understanding both natural ecosystem processes and the human-induced alterations affecting aquatic environments. Changes in water colour, ...

Technology advances for heat recovery steam generators (HRSGs) at power plants continue to provide higher efficiency, with major gains recognized in natural gas–fired and cogeneration systems in ...

Figure 1 below illustrates the water/steam schematic of a coal-fired unit from the last century. Figure 1. Flow path of a large, drum-type coal unit. Note the closed feedwater heaters and the one open ...

Renewable resources now provide a significant portion of U.S. electricity needs. However, issues related to renewable energy storage capacity, a projected large nationwide load increase (much of it ...

Using an advanced technique, scientists have demonstrated that a chemical reaction powered by light takes place ten thousand times faster at the air-water interface -- what we usually call the water ...