SUGAR LAND, TX — (Marketwire) — 03/02/12 — Written by John Egan for Industrial Info Resources (Sugar Land, Texas) — Aggressive corrosion has appeared in dozens of power plants– wet flue-gas desulfurization (FGD) units, in some cases as shortly as three months after construction of the scrubber was complete. A variety of utilities, including units of (NYSE:AEP) (Columbus, Ohio), (NYSE:DUK) (Charlotte, North Carolina) and (NYSE:FE) (Akron, Ohio), are working in collaboration with the Electric Power Research Institute (EPRI) (Palo Alto, California) to identify the root cause of the problem and determine a remedy. There has been some litigation between affected and engineering and construction companies.
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