Sentences with phrase «efficient steam turbine»

By tracking the sun on two - axes and concentrating its energy in a single place at the boiler, the system is able to produce steam at temperatures that take advantage of the world's most efficient steam turbine generators.

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.

The project sponsor also omits the fact that it has contracted with General Electric to build less - efficient steam turbines that GE itself says are designed for supercritical power plants, not the requisite ultra-supercritical level of efficiency.

Not exact matches

GE's H - class heavy - duty gas turbines are currently the world's largest and most efficient gas turbines, capable of converting fuel and air into electricity at more than 62 percent power - plant efficiency when matched with a steam turbine generator, a setup known as combined cycle.

Freeman Dyson (infinite in all directions pg194) suggested that the most efficient markets are the most diverse, and the importance of small - fast solutions to the then energy crisis.The then constraint on the then power plant use act on steam injection gas turbine (STIG) was a foremost impediment to technological development.