Not only does the Westinghouse design live on, but iterative improvements to insulators, mountings and housings make this IPB design even more rugged and reliable Isolated-phase bus (IPB) systems are ...

Properly planning and executing a maintenance plan during a planned outage is a critical practice in avoiding unnecessary downtime in a power plant. Although each individual plant has their own ...

At 11:19 p.m. on July 26, 2013, Callaway Nuclear Plant operation technicians performed the monthly swap-over of the dual redundant isolated phase bus (iso phase bus, or IPB) cooling fans. This monthly ...

While recently eating dinner with my colleague Paul Wieboldt, we started talking about the common defects found in many duct systems today. As we listed the various duct system flaws typically ...

Just because ducts are designed a certain way doesn’t mean they will function as intended. Quick duct design rules have been around for a long time and aren’t going anywhere in the near future.