Steam turbines and thermal power plants and Water treatment chemicals

Their prices have moved together.

Steam turbines and thermal power plants (energy) and Water treatment chemicals (chemical): 1 relationship.

How they are linked

1. Price link: feedwater chemicals

Cost and price · Weak · Both ways

Steam cycles need very pure water, so plants buy treatment chemicals to prevent scale and corrosion in boilers and turbines. The link is a small operating cost, and the indices correlate at only 0.13 monthly, as expected for unrelated pricing.

• 0.13 monthly change correlation
• 0.26 12-month change correlation
• 0.67 fitted elasticity

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