The well-received coal-fired plant operator staffing benchmarking study published in POWER in September 2004 by the EUCG was recently joined by two additional studies: one of plant-level engineering ...

Role: Wastewater plant engineers plan and design wastewater infrastructure as well as oversee wastewater collection and disposal. The job also requires ongoing risk assessment and health and safety ...

Over the years I have worked with a variety of power plant engineers. In doing so, I’ve had the pleasure of knowing 1. The highly respected, seasoned old engineer who knows the plant like the “back of ...

In a rapidly changing climate landscape, the plants we rely on for food, textiles and more face a multitude of challenges, ...

The ability to genetically engineer plants is largely thanks to a microscopic helper: a bacterium called Agrobacterium tumefaciens. Agrobacterium in the wild causes damaging tumors in flowering plants ...

There is great incentive to genetically engineer crops that possess desirable traits like greater biomass production and resistance to pathogens while requiring less resources, including space and ...

Plant design engineering is a wide term. It includes all those engineers who are involved in research, design, planning and creation of any automated production processes. They often have a background ...

In the past, members of a utility’s engineering staff spent their career designing and building new power plants. Today, many utility engineers find that opportunity comes around only once in a career ...

Plant automation has historically been the responsibility of the control system engineer—you know, the instrumentation guy, the DCS guy, the PLC and HMI guy. Interfaces were straightforward with ...

The ever-growing human population requires stable and durable crop yields to sustain sufficient food production. A plethora of pests, including bacteria, fungi and insects, threaten crop production, ...

Recently, biofuels have received increasing global attention because of finite reserves of fossil fuels, which particularly affects industrialized nations, and an increased knowledge of the effect of ...