Sentences with phrase «drive turbine generators»

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.

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

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.

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The gas turbine operates like a jet engine but drives a generator instead of fan blades.

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

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.

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 turbine drives a generator and produces electricity.

With direct drive, the turbine directly turns the generator at the same speed as the blades.

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 turbines, in turn, drive generators that produce electricity, which is sold to the local power company.

The generators will be driven by four turbines now being built into Romney weir, about 800 metres from the castle.

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

The turbine burns diesel fuel to drive the generator, which in turn charges up a 28kWh battery pack that supplies power to the electric motors.

This Turbine - Recharging Electric Vehicle setup — TREV, for short (stop laughing at the back)-- employs the diesel - fuelled turbine to drive a generator that then replenishes the surprisingly small 28kWh bTurbine - Recharging Electric Vehicle setup — TREV, for short (stop laughing at the back)-- employs the diesel - fuelled turbine to drive a generator that then replenishes the surprisingly small 28kWh bturbine to drive a generator that then replenishes the surprisingly small 28kWh battery.

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.

Researchers are working on high - frequency noise generators that would be audible to bats and drive them away from wind turbines, ultraviolet lights to illuminate towers and repel bats, and behavioral studies that would help the industry fine - tune when it should feather turbines.

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.

As the blades of a wind turbine turn, the kinetic energy of the wind is converted into mechanical energy, which is transmitted through a drive shaft to an electrical generator in the nacelle.

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.

OPINION German OEM will be able to use Lagerwey's permanent - magnet generator direct - drive technology in its own turbines, writes Philip Totaro

Featuring a 12 MW direct drive generator and an industry leading gross capacity factor of 63 percent1 the Haliade - X will produce 45 percent more energy than any other offshore turbine available today2.

Hydro Plant Schematic Most hydroelectric power comes from the potential energy of dammed water driving a water turbine and generator.

To produce electricity, the hot salt is pumped into a generator, where the heat is transferred to steam which drives a turbine.

Its ability lies in its 27 - billion gallon reservoir and a set of six turbines that drive electric generators.

Our Six Sigma quality procedures can drive further improvements in wind turbine generators.

* Turbine blades are formed of durable and lightweight composites * Rotational molding processes used with high - strength thermoplastic materials * Standard construction practices used to inexpensively build, deploy, and maintain nacelles * Assembled with carefully selected off - the - shelf drive and generating components including brushless generators, high reliability gear trains, and double graphite / ceramic face seals for rotor shafts * Self - cleaning screen for horizontally deflecting debris and fish away from turbine blades (also designing screenless, debris immune, and more fish - friendly turbine) * Yaw bearing for bidirectional operation in tidalTurbine blades are formed of durable and lightweight composites * Rotational molding processes used with high - strength thermoplastic materials * Standard construction practices used to inexpensively build, deploy, and maintain nacelles * Assembled with carefully selected off - the - shelf drive and generating components including brushless generators, high reliability gear trains, and double graphite / ceramic face seals for rotor shafts * Self - cleaning screen for horizontally deflecting debris and fish away from turbine blades (also designing screenless, debris immune, and more fish - friendly turbine) * Yaw bearing for bidirectional operation in tidalturbine blades (also designing screenless, debris immune, and more fish - friendly turbine) * Yaw bearing for bidirectional operation in tidalturbine) * Yaw bearing for bidirectional operation in tidal waters

* Mechanical power, derived from the turbines, is applied directly through a speed increaser to an internal gearbox / generator, or to a hydraulic pump that in turn drives an on - shore hydraulic motor and generator * Requires no dams nor impoundments * Poses no threat to the environment, nor to water quality * Produces no by - products while in operation - clean and pollution free (no greenhouse gases) * Harmless to marine life and allows safe fish passage

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

During a no wind event, a compressed air storage method (air compressors driven by turbine to provide compressed air to storage tanks which supply air motor / generator) allows the wind farm 5 - 15 minutes to power down the grid connection and afford the utility company time of notice that the wind farm is offline for the time being.

The resultant steam drives turbines that rotate electrical generators.

Another interesting technology could be compressed air... using the wind turbines to compress air at low demand periods and then using this compressed air to drive generators

4 Issue 4) that «offshore vertical - axis wind turbines offer the potential for a break through in offshore wind energy availability and reduced life cycle costs due to their design characteristics of few moving parts and the sitting of the generator at the base level potentially allowing large - scale direct drive.