# Steam turbines and thermal power plants and Water treatment chemicals

Their prices have moved together.

Source page: https://www.materialinsights.org/links/steam-turbines-and-thermal-power-plants-and-water-treatment-chemicals/

[Steam turbines and thermal power plants](https://www.materialinsights.org/energy/e_steam_turbines/) (energy) and [Water treatment chemicals](https://www.materialinsights.org/chemicals/water_treatment/) (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

Built from the site data on production routes, energy flows, industry value chains, input-output tables and prices.