Competitive and deregulatory pressures in the world power generation market are creating incentives and opportunities for progressive power producers to improve their performance. Concurrent with these pressures, the development of customer's and voter's awareness of environmental effects of power production is causing further challenges to reduce undesirable emissions. Boiler cleaning technology, one of the most economical and competitive approaches to meet both challenges, has been widely accepted by power generations. Effective boiler cleaning technology is able to help power generation to:

• Maximize process output (MW) for a given input (tonnes of coal)
• Maximize process efficiency
• Maximize the process availability
• Minimize environmental impact of the process
• Maximize flexibility to accept variability in fuel quality and composition
• Minimize process costs

In this segment, we will discuss the mechanism of slagging and fouling, development of boiler cleaning technologies, and mechanism of water cleaning to help customers and engineers understand the process and select the best solution for their applications. This article includes the following parts: