Sentences with phrase «generating steam turbines»

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.

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These incinerators were able to recover energy through burning waste, using the released heat to boil water, and using the steam produced to power turbines that generate electricity.

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

Heated springs and geysers up to three miles underground can be accessed by special wells that bring the hot water (or steam from it) up to the surface where it can be used directly for heat or indirectly to generate electricity by powering rotating turbines.

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

The heated liquid is used to generate steam, which turns a turbine, generating electricity.

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.

When electricity is needed, the hot salt is used to boil water and produce high - temperature, high - pressure steam, which turns turbines that generate electricity.

As in a conventional fossil fuel or nuclear power plant, that steam spins turbines, which generate electricity.

Hot rocks at depth boil the water into steam, which rises back to the surface to spin a turbine and generate electricity.

After geothermal power plants pump up a hot brine — water and dissolved salts from underground — and use its heat to make steam to spin a turbine and generate electricity, Simbol would borrow the still warm fluid for roughly 90 minutes.

As it stands, eSolar expects to generate five megawatts of electricity with its refurbished 1940s - vintage General Electric steam turbines roughly 25 percent of the time, which coincides generally with peak demand for electricity, Tyner says.

Today's nuclear power plants use the heat from uranium fission reactions to do nothing more complicated than boil water, making pressurized steam that spins turbines to generate 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.

The U.S. employs 104 light - water reactors to generate 20 percent of its electricity today; the reactors moderate uranium fission and the heat it produces with water, which is also boiled into steam to turn an electricity - generating turbine.

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.

It generates power from a gas turbine as well as a steam turbine.

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.

Meanwhile, you can generate boatloads of electricity by focusing sunlight on simple tubes to boil water to generate electricity with a basic steam turbine.

Until the 1930s, hydroelectric - power plants equipped with water - turbine generating units produced the largest percentage of electric energy because they were less expensive to operate than thermal - power plants using steam - turbine units.

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.

They function by heating water to create steam, which then turns turbines, generating electricity.

When electricity is needed, the molten salt is pumped through a heat exchanger to turn water into steam that spins a turbine to generate electricity.

It was decided that Olkiluoto Island in western Finland would host the new plant, where the Gulf of Bothnia could cool the steam used to turn the turbines and generate electricity.

The majority of thermal storage mediums — not counting the case of molten salt — are not heated to high enough temperatures to produce steam and power turbines, generating electricity.

Steam - turbine power boilers can be used in sawmills to generate steam by burning bark and other waste prodSteam - turbine power boilers can be used in sawmills to generate steam by burning bark and other waste prodsteam by burning bark and other waste products.

Georgia Power's coal - fired steam - turbine electric generating Plant Bowen in Euharlee, Georgia, about 40 miles northwest of Atlanta is seen from a commercial airliner on September 12, 2009.

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

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.

Organic materials are processed and burned to create steam to spin a turbine that generates 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.

[1] An NGCC plant first uses a gas combustion turbine to generate electricity, then uses the waste heat to make steam to generate additional electricity in a steam turbine.

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

More than 170,000 mirrors will gather tremendous amounts of sunlight and focus it on three towers filled with water, raising temperatures to more than 1,000 degrees Fahrenheit and producing steam that spins turbines that generate electricity.

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

When wind power is generated during low demand hours, the IESO is forced to spill hydro, steam off nuclear or curtail power from the wind turbines, in order to manage the grid.

In most power plants, water cools the steam that spins the electricity - generating turbines.

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.

The basic principle behind a nuclear reactor is simple: the heat produced by a controlled nuclear reaction is used to create steam pressure that drives a power - generating turbine.

The temperature at the turbine's front blades is 1,500 C, and its waste heat is extracted by a downstream heat exchanger to power a steam turbine and generate additional electricity.

If proven, it could potentially be used as a pathway for using nuclear fuels to generate motion while bypassing the steam turbine.

A heat transfer fluid heated in the receiver up to around 600ºC is used to generate steam, which, in turn, is used in a conventional turbine - generator to produce electricity.

The steam then turns a turbine and generates electricity.

Abengoa Solar will use a so - called «solar trough design» for the plant - which consists of rows upon rows of parabolic mirrors that focus the sun's rays on water - filled tubes to heat them and produce steam to power electricity - generating turbines (i.e. a solar thermal system).

According to Hyperion, each unit can generate 27 MW of electricity when connected to a steam turbine.

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.