Plant operators are facing increasing competition to extract the maximum amount of energy possible from a power source, while substantially reducing emissions.

Plants need to maintain combustion efficiency while keeping downtime and equipment failure to a minimum. They also need to comply with increasingly stringent regulations on fuel handling and reduced emissions. Improvements made to meet new environmental legislation are often undermined by the low quality of fuel used.

Poor quality fuels can cause problems from fuel storage to combustion and exhaust stack issues, affecting power plant efficiency. This leads to higher fuel usage and increased costs.