The first Pro Novum Bulletin of the year was published in the February issue of Energetyka. It contains another installment of articles based on papers presented during the 26th Pro Novum Symposium (the first installment was published along with a report from the 26th Symposium in the December issue of "Energetyka"). The first Pro Novum Bulletin of the year is based on papers presented during the 26th Pro Novum Symposium, a report from which was published in the December issue of "Energetyka." The bulletin opens with an article presenting long-term maintenance with a focus on diagnostics (LTSDA). The second article presents the opportunities offered by modern technologies for modeling real-world structures and their lifespan depletion processes. Among other things, they enable ongoing monitoring of the technical condition and lifespan forecasting of steam boiler drums with greater accuracy than before and with significant cost reductions. The flexible operation of coal-fired and gas-fired units also poses a challenge for the method of correcting the physicochemical parameters of circulating fluids. The author of the third article shares his extensive experience in this area. In the fourth article, we present the latest generation of NDT equipment for power and petrochemical equipment, which Pro Novum has been using for some time. PAUT and TOFD methods, as discussed here, eliminate the need for tedious X-ray examinations and can ensure very high accuracy in identifying and sizing material discontinuities, thus enabling greater precision than ever before in monitoring the safety of components subject to conditional operation.

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