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Revolutionizing Refractory Maintenance: Increasing Efficiency with Specialized Equipment

May 4, 2022 admin biomass, boiler, brokk, Coal, Cyclone, demolition, full coverage, hydrodemolition, maintenance, news, O&M, refractory, robot, waste to energy

Credit to Author: POWER| Date: Wed, 04 May 2022 15:19:21 +0000

Refractory maintenance, though vital, can often be a logistical and financial burden. This is especially true for power plants, cement plants, and other large facilities that rely on boilers, kilns, coolers, preheater towers, and risers for day-to-day operation. These facilities stand to lose many thousands of dollars a day in production if their refractory can’t […]

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Well-Planned Retirement: Keys to Successful Coal Plant Decommissioning

January 2, 2020 admin burns & mcdonnell, Coal, decommissioning, demolition, EIA, news, O&M, retirement, reuse

Credit to Author: POWER| Date: Thu, 02 Jan 2020 05:00:00 +0000

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Hundreds of coal-fired power plants are now retired or facing retirement in the near future, and utilities face a number of decisions. Are there commercial reuse options for the plant or the site itself? Are

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Officials abandon idea of demolishing Columbine High School

July 24, 2019 admin columbine high school, demolition, Denver, latest news, Latest News Stories, US news, World

Credit to Author: ggaviola| Date: Wed, 24 Jul 2019 23:00:50 +0000

DENVER – A Colorado school district trying to stop people obsessed with the shooting at Columbine High School won’t demolish the building as a way to deter intruders, officials said in a letter released Wednesday.

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Watch Stack Come Down at Florida Power Plant

July 20, 2019 admin Coal, decommissioning, demolition, florida power & light, implosion, jea, news, st. johns river power park

Credit to Author: Darrell Proctor| Date: Sat, 20 Jul 2019 15:00:37 +0000

JEA, the electric utility in Jacksonville, Florida, has been decommissioning the St. Johns River Power Park over the past year. A third implosion as part of the decommissioning occurred July 19, as a 640-foot-tall stack and two steam generating boilers were demolished. Friday’s work followed similar implosions in June 2018, when the plant’s two, 464-foot-tall […]

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Boracay establishments breaking easement rules face demolition — Año

February 28, 2019 admin Año, Boracay, demolition, DILG, easement rules, establishments, interior secretary, Latest News Stories, lgu, Nation

Credit to Author: lalos| Date: Thu, 28 Feb 2019 12:01:14 +0000

Several establishments operating in the famous Boracay island are facing demolition for violating the imposed easement from the water’s edge, Interior Secretary Eduardo Año said.

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Video Shows Demolition of Old German Coal Plant

February 17, 2019 admin Coal, coal plant, demolition, explosions, GERMANY, gustav knepper, International, news

Credit to Author: Darrell Proctor| Date: Sun, 17 Feb 2019 17:29:08 +0000

The Gustav Knepper power plant in Dortmund-Mengede, Germany, was leveled by two controlled explosions on February 17. The facility had been closed for five years. The plant’s boiler house and 128-meter cooling tower were brought down first. A 210-meter chimney was leveled in a second blast, about 45 minutes after the first. The German YouTube […]

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Demolition of buildings at Marawi’s ground zero starts

February 15, 2019 admin demolition, Headlines, Latest News Stories, Marawi, news, Regions

Credit to Author: lalos| Date: Fri, 15 Feb 2019 21:23:53 +0000

Demolition and clearing of structures heavily damaged by the five-month war in 2017 between government forces and the Islamic State-inspired Maute group here began on Thursday, signaling the start of the rebuilding of Marawi, an official of the National Housing Authority (NHA) said.

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Egypt razes historical Cairo district, angering residents

August 15, 2018 admin demolition, Egypt, historical 19th century neighborhood in cairo, Latest News Stories, World

Egyptian authorities are demolishing a historical 19th century neighborhood in Cairo to make way for high-end housing and business development a stone’s throw from the Nile, angering residents who say they have not been properly compensated.

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Thousands protest over mosque demolition plan in China

August 10, 2018 admin allegiance, arabic classes, atheist, bible, China, Christian, Church, communism, demolition, freedom, han, hui, indoctrination camps, islamic crescents, kazakh muslim, Latest News Stories, loyalty, mosque, Muslims, protest, Religion, religious expression, rights, sinicize, uighur, World, Xi Jinping

BEIJING — Thousands of Muslims gathered at a mosque in northwestern China on Friday to protest its planned demolition in a rare, public pushback to the government’s efforts to rewrite how religions are practiced in the country.

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