Sentences with phrase «cooling turbine generators»
Some solar power plants may require water for cleaning solar collectors and concentrators or for cooling turbine generators.
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A mixture of gas turbine and diesel generators should be used, he says, and water and air cooling systems should both be considered for diesel generators in case a shortage of air or water might be an issue at the generator location.
This heat is then passed to a separate, secondary cooling circuit in which water is turned to steam to drive the turbines and generators.
With a methane economy we could heat and cool our homes, produce electric power at home using a small gas turbine generator, and fuel our vehicles all from our own home tank at far lower cost than using gasoline.
British Wind Turbines at sea (No Nimbys) the Generators 300 foot high are Air cooled.
Three piping loops would cool the reactor: the primary loop (using molten sodium), an intermediate sodium loop between the radioactive primary system and the steam generators, and a water loop to generate steam for the turbine.
Engineers believed that residual energy from the turbine rotation could be used to pump cooling water until emergency generators kicked in.