Sentences with phrase «drive turbine»

For example, the floating Danish Waveplane has a series of slots designed to catch waves at different heights, the captured flows then being used to create a vortex to drive a turbine.

The parabolic mirrors focus sunlight onto oil filled pipes that are heat water and produce steam that is then used to drive a turbine.

I use the liquid / gas transition to drive a turbine to give me electricity and power the pumps and also give me a surplus.

According to Bergey, a federal credit would not only be an immediate benefit to taxpayers, but would also drive turbine prices down through increased manufacturing.

That air is then released to drive a turbine - generator to produce electricity when needed.

Warm liquid is piped from the ocean's surface to vaporize a liquid that can 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.

Producing rotary motion to drive a turbine from the slow motion of the waves.

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

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

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.

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

As the wind makes the turbines turn, they drive a turbine and it is this turbine which generates the electricity.

Rather than a single spiral chamber (volute) feeding exhaust gas from the exhaust manifold to drive the turbine on the turbocharger, the dual volute design has a pair of separate chambers with two exhaust gas inlets and two nozzles to drive the turbine.

When combined with modern - day turbocharging — which uses waste energy from the exhaust gas to drive the turbine — direct injection provides the best of both worlds: the responsiveness of a larger - displacement engine with fewer trips to the gas pump.

Throttle lag occurs because turbochargers rely on the buildup of exhaust gas pressure to drive the turbine.

In variable output systems such as automobile engines, exhaust gas pressure at idle, low engine speeds, or low throttle is usually insufficient to drive the turbine.

The company plans to recover some of this energy by fitting a turbine inside the tailpipe: the fast - moving exhaust gases coming straight from the engine drive the turbine, generating electricity.

Like older models, they will use uranium fission to heat water and drive a turbine, but these reactors will be smaller, simpler to build, and each will add more than 1100 megawatts of capacity to the region's power grid when they come online in 2016 or 2017 — without emitting carbon dioxide.

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.

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.

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

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

The company says a geared solution is more efficient, uses a lot less rare earth materials and will need to be serviced less often compared with a direct drive turbine.

And a direct drive turbine has to have four times more electrical components than a geared turbine, which would increase the chance of a malfunction.

The rise and fall with each wave alternately pressurizes and depressurizes the air at the top, which can drive a turbine; Wavegen in Scotland, partly owned by Siemens, the giant electrical company, recently opened a 100 - kilowatt generator based on this system.

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

The P2 generates energy when its large floating tubes, connected by hinged joints, bob in the waves, moving hydraulic rams that pump high - pressure fluid to drive turbine.

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

On the West Coast, General Fusion in Burnaby, British Columbia, is using an approach that includes heat transfer to drive a turbine.

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

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.

When the bulge reaches the end, the pressurised water drives a turbine.

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.

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

As it expands, it drives a turbine to make electricity.

Often these sites generate electricity as a byproduct of other industrial processes such as using gas from landfills to drive turbines.

The forestry and biomass energy industries, and a number of political leaders from heavily - forested states, argue that burning wood to drive turbines can be a low - carbon way to make electricity.

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.

As the water pours in it drives turbines that generate electricity.

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.

A wastegate regulates the exhaust gas flow that enters the exhaust - side driving turbine and therefore the air intake into the manifold and the degree of boosting.

The utility has an agreement with BrightSource Energy to buy electricity from a planned suite of solar - thermal power plants — arrays of mirrors that heat fluid to drive turbines — with a total capacity of 1,300 megawatts.

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