Sentences with phrase «more gas turbine»

More gas turbine are being installed but these only have a relatively small output and are used for peak loads, not load control.

Not exact matches

The metals producer, more than 125 years old, makes parts for gas turbines, the engines that plane manufacturers such as Boeing and Airbus install to give planes the power to get you to your next meeting.

More than 100 clergy issued a letter to the governor urging him to have the New York Power Authority seek clean - energy alternatives to a plan that would install natural gas - fired turbines in the Sheridan Hollow neighborhood.

A slew of new coal - fired generators are coming online, he noted, and while those plants are sleeker and more efficient, they're still not nearly as clean as gas - fired turbines or renewable power sources.

COPENHAGEN — Revolutionizing the energy industry to achieve a target concentration of greenhouse gases in the atmosphere of no more than 450 parts per million (ppm) would require building 17 nuclear power plants a year between now and 2030; 17,000 wind turbines a year; or two hydropower dams on the scale of Three Gorges Dam in China, according to the International Energy Agency.

Although solar thermal collectors are better than photovoltaic panels or wind turbines at generating reliable power around the clock, solar thermal power is also expensive; at present energy costs, it would require government subsidies to compete with coal and natural gas, which can generate electricity much more cheaply.

At higher temperatures, gas turbines produce more electricity.

«The world desperately needs higher - efficiency gas turbines because the end result is millions of tons of carbon dioxide that's not going into the atmosphere,» said Citeno, noting that in the last 2 years, more than 50 percent of gas turbines manufactured at GE's Greenville plant were exported to other countries.

It hopes to make less use of coal - burning stations and more of combined - cycle gas - turbine stations.

GE's H - class heavy - duty gas turbines are currently the world's largest and most efficient gas turbines, capable of converting fuel and air into electricity at more than 62 percent power - plant efficiency when matched with a steam turbine generator, a setup known as combined cycle.

As part of its strategy to reduce greenhouse gas emissions to prevent global warming from exceeding 2 °C (3.6 °F), the Obama administration unveiled a plan in September to build wind farms off of nearly every U.S. coastline by 2050 — enough turbines to generate zero - carbon electricity for more than 23 million homes.

At the same time, old, inefficient «peaker» units — so - called because they run no more than 77 hours a year when electricity demand in the state is at its highest — will be shut down or replaced by newer natural gas — fired turbines.

The benefit is higher efficiency jet engines and power turbines that produce more power and less greenhouse gases, which is a good thing for the planet.»

The twin - scroll design separates the cylinders whose exhaust gas pulses interfere with each other, resulting in improved pressure distribution in the exhaust ports and a more efficient delivery of exhaust gas energy to the turbocharger's turbine for quick and smooth responsiveness.

The twin - scroll design separates the cylinders whose exhaust gas pulses interfere with each other, resulting in improved pressure distribution in the exhaust ports and a more efficient delivery of exhaust gas energy to the turbocharger's turbine.

The twin - scroll turbocharger design has several other advantages over traditional, single - scroll turbocharging systems, including: • Improved combustion efficiency • Low engine - speed efficiency • Kinetic exhaust gas energy is not wasted or trapped • Cooler cylinder temperatures • Lower exhaust temperatures • Leaner air / fuel ratio • Better pressure distribution in the exhaust ports and more efficient delivery of exhaust gas energy to the turbocharger's turbine Veloster's twin - scroll turbo has superior handling of exhaust gas separation at the turbine leading to improved low - end torque and faster transient torque response.

Before working for The Motley Fool, David spent more than a decade as an engineer, designing and developing gas turbines at both Rolls - Royce and General Electric.

Whether the discussion turns to replacing coal - fired power plants with wind turbines and using electric cars instead of gas - driven SUVs, converting industrial agricultural practices to organic permaculture, or reversing the decline of ocean life though international regulations, it is an article of faith in the reform movement that we know what we need to do and all that's lacking is a sufficiently visionary leader to put more planet - friendly solutions in place.

After the energy integration more than 30 MW of process heat is used directly for heating up the feed gas to the reactor R1 and for producing electricity via a steam turbine.

For more, see «Market - Challenged, GE Continues to Improve Gas Turbine Efficiency.»

We don't need large, > 1 GW scale nuclear plants, any more than we need 1 GW size gas turbines.

The project, which will take up to three years to complete, will increase its capacity and reduce greenhouse gas emissions by approximately 10 percent, by eliminating all use of fuel oil (except for emergencies) and installing newer, more efficient turbines.

Absorption and particularly extraction will require the use of a gas turbine that naturally emits more carbon dioxide, to the tune of 785,000 tons.

Natural gas the real replacement, but new Michigan wind mandate means more turbine towers coming, too

Unlike traditional backup generators that run on diesel fuel, these natural gas turbines offer a more efficient solution and, more importantly, ensure the utility avoids building a new power plant.

Building combined cycle gas turbine plants near users and recycling waste heat saves even more money, reducing required costs by $ 25 per MWh versus the same technology built remote from users.

[page 253] Thus, over the life - span of a working wind turbine, the «equivalent» shale natural gas production might actually encompass 10 or more sites which throws another factor into the calculation of power density that would tip the scales toward wind farms.

The fuel cell operates much more efficiently than a conventional gas - burning turbine, meaning it emits between 3,400 and 5,000 tonnes less CO2 per year.

The costs just keep on increasing the more we think about the concept of gas turbines running on biofuels.

Waste heat from the gas turbine is recovered to create steam which drives a steam turbine, producing more electricity — hence a combined cycle system.

A single turbine requires 700-1000 tons of concrete, steel, copper and fiberglass — far more raw materials than involved with coal or gas - fired power plants, generating equal amounts of electricity far more reliably and cheaply.

Producing electricity from wind - driven turbines (windmills) is widely recognized as more costly than producing electricity using coal, oil, natural gas, nuclear energy or hydropower.

We should have a lot more reactors spinning turbines, and use natural gas for more productive uses.

At extremely high levels of renewables, flexibility resources do become more important and things like demand response, new fast - ramp gas turbines, or energy storage might be viable.

«There is more data coming off a wind turbine than a natural gas - fired turbine because the fuel is variable,» O'Toole said.

It is also true that China is building far more wind turbines than any other nation on earth, and that China's per capita greenhouse gas production is way below that of Australia.

He has called for building more nuclear and coal plants, ramping up the state's natural gas use, opening offshore oil and gas resources, as well as putting wind turbines offshore and electric cars on its roads.

In PSCO, coal cycling predominates because of the low amount of gas generation in the system since most of its gas - fired generation is from turbines and because wind is strongest at night when coal use is even more pronounced.

Electric power systems with a large share of intermittent resources may rely more on flexible resources such as gas turbines or hydropower to «firm up» the output of intermittent generators.

GE has 28 years of experience in 7F gas turbine technology with more than 50 million hours of fleet operating data and 150 gigawatts of installed across approximately 900 units at 350 sites globally.

If the current drought persists, water flowing to drive hydroelectric turbines will continue to shrink and expensive and polluting natural gas will become even more of a factor in the electricity production game.

Larger turbines (like coal, nuclear and most natural gas) going down unexpectedly can be much more disruptive since you are losing 100x as much power (or more!)

Combined cycle: An electric generating technology in which electricity is produced from otherwise lost waste heat exiting from one or more gas (combustion) turbines.

The thing is when you have a wind farm with say 100 2 MW turbines, the failure of one turbine will not interrupt service, but large coal, nuclear and gas units tripping off line can cause more troubles.

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For example, in Britain, emissions have been rising continuously for more than 10 years, following a «dash for gas» in the 1990s which replaced much coal - fired generation with cleaner, natural - gas - powered turbines.

Indeed, last month the Electric Reliability Council of Texas said that the latest data on wind turbine performance and costs suggests that wind power is likely to be more cost - effective than natural gas over the next 20 years, and it could account for the majority of new generating capacity added over that that time in Texas.

The comparative capital cost study of a combined cycle gas unit versus a wind farm with gas turbine back - up power also reveals that the wind farm / gas turbine installed KW cost is more than twice the cost of the combined cycle plant.

Using Fischer - Tropsch (FT) synthetic fuel or blend can significantly reduce gaseous particulate matter and gaseous emissions compared to standard military jet (JP - 8) fuel when used in a T63 gas - turbine helicopter engine, according to a new study by a team from the Center for Atmospheric Particle Studies, Carnegie Mellon University and... Read more →

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