Sentences with phrase «as combustion turbines»

Not exact matches

Although the CHARLES solver was developed to tackle problems like high - fidelity jet engine simulation and supersonic jet noise prediction, it had never been applied to predict combustion dynamics in a configuration as complex as a GE gas turbine combustion system.

Its number - crunching capabilities are used to study ship hydrodynamics and air turbulence, to probe industrial combustion turbines to create cleaner engines, and to understand global ocean circulation, as well as for earthquake simulations and aircraft noise - reduction modeling.

In some engines, especially for turbine engine blade cooling and liquid rocket engine cooling, fuel is used as a coolant, as it is simultaneously preheated before injecting it into a combustion chamber.

BKL: You included a number of technical terms in Jet Plane: How It Works, such as fuselage, turbine, and combustion chamber.

How CHP works is by using the heat that would otherwise be wasted in exhaust gases from fossil combustion systems, such as flue gases from a coal - or biomass - fueled boiler or exhaust from a gas turbine or reciprocating engine, to produce steam and / or hot water for various industrial or commercial needs.

Huber said it was likely the 3,000 MW figure was arrived at as «a fraction of the new combustion turbines in the IRP (Integrated Resource Plans) of the utilities».

The NRDC cites the «2016 State of the Market» report by PJM, the largest grid operator in North America, as showing that «new entrant natural gas - fired combined cycle plants, combustion turbine plants, and solar are economical, but that new coal and nuclear plants are not.»

For something that the wind industry keeps telling us is as rare as hen's teeth, the unshackling of 10 tonne blades (euphemistically called «component liberation»), the total collapse of 200 - 300 tonne turbines and the spontaneous combustion of turbine generators (and the 1,000 litres of highly toxic gear and hydraulic oil that slosh around inside the -LSB-...]

But what does the increasing role of energy storage as peaker replacement mean for investments in new combustion turbine, or even combined cycle plants, and gas pipelines?

Internal combustion may be able to fight back for a time by moving to gas turbines, which are potentially about twice as efficient as a conventional diesel.

As Table 1 and Figure 2 show, four conversion technologies — the steam turbine, combustion turbine, spark - ignition engine, and compression - ignition engine — are responsible for 65.4 % of all energy consumption in the United States.

«As shown in Table ES - 2, CSP plants installed in 2015 are projected to exhibit a delivered LCOE of $ 115 / MWh, 2 compared with $ 168 / MWh for the simple cycle combustion turbine and $ 104 / MWh for combined cycle plants.