Sentences with phrase «drive steam turbines»

Current storage methods utilize a solar collector and molten salts to provide enough heat to drive steam turbines.

Store the heat during the day, and release it at night, boiling water to drive steam turbines.

The Morocco Noor Ouarzazate Concentrating Solar Power (CSP) project is based on technology that uses heat from the sun to drive steam turbines or engines to produce electricity, even at night, through a heat storage mechanism.

The chain reaction becomes self - sustaining, producing a steady supply of heat to boil water, drive steam turbines and thereby generate electricity.

As it cools and solidifies, it releases heat that drives a steam turbine to make electricity.

There's no reason you couldn't use the heat to drive a steam turbine or Stirling engine, just as the steam turbines in a nuclear plant are basically identical to the ones in a coal - fired plant, or for that matter a solar thermal one.

Bottoming cycle: A waste - heat recovery boiler recaptures the unused energy and uses it to produce steam to drive a steam turbine generator to produce electricity.

Electric power can be supplied by solar photovoltaic (PV) arrays and by solar thermal systems in which the Sun heats a fluid that generates steam to drive a steam turbine.

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

With this water can be heated to between 500ºC and 2000ºC turning the water into steam which can then drive a steam turbine and produce electricity.

Second, heat recovered from these gases, with additional firing, is the source for producing steam that drives a steam turbine.

Not exact matches

Heat from garbage - fuelled incinerators can generate steam that drives a turbine that in turn drives...

The heat from the helium can then be used to create steam to drive a turbine.

In this state, reactors require constant power to keep them cooler than 100 °C and prevent them producing turbine - driving steam.

Nearly 50 percent of the electric power in this country comes from burning coal to create steam that drives electricity - generating turbines.

First coal is burned, boiling water and producing steam that drives a turbine to generate electricity.

The dry steam process brings steam up directly from below to drive turbines that power electricity generators.

Flash steam plants bring the hot water itself up from below; it is then sprayed into a tank to create steam to drive the turbines.

The pipe snakes over miles to a heat exchanger, which makes steam to drive a turbine.

The resulting heat is conveyed out of the reactor, where it turns water into steam that is used to run a turbine that drives an electric generator.

In the «power tower», potassium and sodium nitrate salts are heated to 565 °C and then pass through a heat exchanger where they turn water into steam to drive turbines in the 19.9 megawatt plant.

This «supression tank» recycles and regulates steam generated by heat from the reactor that is used to drive the electrical generators in the neighbouring turbine hall.

The heat boils a separate tank of water and turns it to steam, which in turn drives turbines that produce electricity.

When demand is high, the salt's heat turns water into steam to drive a turbine, making electricity.

EPD's trick is to use sand as the heat - exchange substance, using it to create steam and drive a turbine.

These tubes are then packed together in bundles that are inserted into the reactor core, where they heat water to produce steam to drive a turbine generator to produce electricity.

Tapping geothermal energy means facing the harsh realities of thermodynamics: Typically, geothermal electricity is generated when hot water or steam underground is piped to the surface to drive a turbine, usually through heating an intermediate working fluid that actually turns the turbine's blades.

Its scalding 480 - degree - Fahrenheit (250 - degree - Celsius) steam drives a turbine generating a peak capacity of 11 megawatts (MW) of electricity for the national grid.

This concentrated sunlight produces superheated steam that drives a turbine to generate electricity.

The 19 - megawatt tower will be the first in the world to use a mixture of molten salts to transfer heat from the receiver on top of the tower to a heat exchanger where steam to drive the turbines is generated.

This heat is then passed to a separate, secondary cooling circuit in which water is turned to steam to drive the turbines and generators.

The technology involves heating warm surface water to produce steam that drives a turbine generator.

The steam goes directly to a turbine, which drives a generator that produces electricity.

Built in 1905, the SS Maheno was one of the first turbine - driven steamers.

Constructed back in 1905, this ship used to be among the very first steamers driven by turbine.

Developers drill wells to reach porous and permeable rock containing reservoirs of hot water or steam that is then brought to the surface to drive a turbine and generate electricity.

It uses carbon dioxide produced in combustion to drive turbines at the plant rather than steam.

While standard solar panels convert sunlight directly into electricity, concentrated solar power plants focus an array of mirrors onto a solar receiver and use the resulting heat to drive an electricity - generating steam turbine.

Concentrated solar power technologies use mirrors that direct sunlight to heat an intermediary fluid, which then heats water into steam to drive a turbine.

But Siemens, a supplier, gave some examples for a typical combined - cycle natural gas power plant, one that burns the fuel in a gas turbine to drive one generator, then makes steam from the exhaust to drive a second generator.

It's this steam that drives that turbine powering our electrical generator, sending electricity throughout the grid to the people we serve.

In the Flibe design, thorium reaction temperatures rise to about 750 degrees Celsius to drive gas turbines, compared to conventional reactors, which tend to reach less than half that temperature and drive less efficient steam turbines, he said.

This heated fluid is then used to turn water into steam, which drives a turbine and generates electricity [FIGURE 2].

The Crescent Dunes and Ivanpah Concentrating Solar Power (CSP) plants use mirrors to focus the sun's rays onto a heat exchanger at the top of a 600 - foot - tall tower during the day to heat a fluid that is used, either directly or indirectly, to produce steam to drive a turbine generator that produces electricity.

Solar thermal generation is where the reflectors are concentrated on a central receiver which then heats a liquid such as sodium, which in turn heats the water to generate steam that drives a turbine coupled to a generator.

The heat can then be used to create steam to drive a turbine to produce electrical power or used as industrial process heat.

Heat from the salt can be released when it's cloudy or at night to create steam that drives an electricity - generating turbine.

It gets burned, which turns water into steam, which drives turbines, which then generate electricity.

Megalim's tower in Israel will generate heat of up to 540 degrees Celsius (1,000 Fahrenheit), producing steam to drive a turbine.

These facilities generate solar power by using lenses and reflectors to concentrate sunlight and use it to heat fluids, which can in turn produce steam to drive a turbine.