Sentences with phrase «in gas turbine»

Proven ability to design and modify hardware utilized in gas turbine rig and engine testing.

An experienced Power Plant Technician with over 11 years of experience in the Power Generation and Power Distribution Industry with technical expertise in Gas Turbine Engines / Generators, Electrical Power Distribution, and Power Plant Operations.

Not only are renewables more materials - intensive — a kilo of steel in a gas turbine ends up producing 1,000 times more energy than it does in a wind turbine — but they require a massively more complex and expensive grid system, which developing nations can ill afford.

The gas is then cleaned to remove impurities, such as sulphur, and the syngas is used in a gas turbine to produce electricity.

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.

The U.S. Army Research Laboratory's Center for Unmanned Aircraft Systems Propulsion made an historic first with its experiment in a gas turbine combustor using X-rays.

A single percent increase in gas turbine efficiency equates to millions of dollars in saved fuel costs for GE's customers and tons of carbon dioxide spared from the atmosphere.

The efficiency gains from using ultrahigh temperature materials in gas turbines and jet engines could have a real impact on CO2 emissions and global warming.»

I suggest you cancel your subscription to that source, it's nonsense fossil fuels are burned in gas turbines with efficiencies exceeding 99 %.

Developments in gas turbines will also benefit commercial offerings for coal - based IGCC with efficiency approaching 50 %.

Not exact matches

The Combined - Cycle Gas Turbine (CCGT) arrived in the 1990s.

In its first four months of operation, Tesla's mega-battery system in South Australia was faster, smarter, and cheaper than conventional gas turbines, according to.In its first four months of operation, Tesla's mega-battery system in South Australia was faster, smarter, and cheaper than conventional gas turbines, according to.in South Australia was faster, smarter, and cheaper than conventional gas turbines, according to...

Natural gas turbines replaced solar power capacity during the August 21st solar eclipse, highlighting the carbon - light fossil fuel's emerging role as a gateway «green» energy in the coming decades, according to a report by Fortune released before the sun took its proverbial nap.

TransCanada Turbines Ltd. is considered a world leader in repairing and overhauling industrial and marine gas turbines; it moved to Airdrie from Calgary Turbines Ltd. is considered a world leader in repairing and overhauling industrial and marine gas turbines; it moved to Airdrie from Calgary turbines; it moved to Airdrie from Calgary in 2011.

Avista owns a 15 - per - cent - stake in two of the four units at the Colstrip plant in Montana — a major coal - mining state — and plans to use them for electricity production until 2035, said a spokesperson for the company that also operates hydroelectric dams, natural gas and biomass generating plants and wind turbines.

General Electric on Friday delivered quarterly earnings that surpassed analysts» expectations, as its businesses producing jet engines and power turbines offset declines in its oil and gas segment, but revenue fell short of estimates.

Alstom, a French maker of natural - gas turbines and high - speed trains, said its operating profit margins will fall in this fiscal year and next, having previously said the margins would improve, as its cash flow turns negative.

Langer, in his 20 - foot dual - engine outboard, and former world champion ocean racer Jim Wynne, driving a 32 - foot aluminum craft with two 445 - hp gas turbine engines, were the only two entrants out of 31 to complete the race.

Hill raced again in 1967 but failed to finish, and in 1968 he drove the gas - turbine powered four - wheel drive Lotus 56, but crashed out just past half distance.

More than 100 clergy issued a letter to the governor urging him to have the New York Power Authority seek clean - energy alternatives to a plan that would install natural gas - fired turbines in the Sheridan Hollow neighborhood.

Speaking with newsmen in Port Harcourt on Friday night, Wike said the $ 43m was part of the proceeds from the sale of a gas turbine by the immediate past administration, adding that the gas turbine was initially built by the Peter Odili administration.

Simpson and Shue also criticized NYPA for writing its initial call for developers — called a request for proposal (RFP), which was made in early 2017 — that limited responses only to projects using natural gas turbines.

The NPP is demanding an inquiry after a Norwegian newspaper revealed that government through the Power Ministry signed a dubious agreement with an alleged Dubai based fraudster Umar Farooq Zahoor in the process of procuring the gas turbines.

In the months before design and construction takes place for the new 16MW microgrid — a locally sourced power grid consisting of two gas turbine generators — to be located in the downtown neighborhood of Sheridan Hollow, community groups are reaching out in search of concrete answers from project plannerIn the months before design and construction takes place for the new 16MW microgrid — a locally sourced power grid consisting of two gas turbine generators — to be located in the downtown neighborhood of Sheridan Hollow, community groups are reaching out in search of concrete answers from project plannerin the downtown neighborhood of Sheridan Hollow, community groups are reaching out in search of concrete answers from project plannerin search of concrete answers from project planners.

Dakuku, an All Progressives Congress, APC, stalwart in Rivers State, while speaking with newsmen in Port Harcourt, dismissed Wike's claimed that the money found in Lagos were part of proceeds the Rivers State Government realised from sale of gas turbines by the Rotimi Amaechi's administration.

Documents exclusively available to Citi News show that, the agreement for the 400MW combined cycle gas turbine power plant to be situated in Tema, will be executed by Early Power Limited, a company incorporated in Ghana only in October 27, 2014.

He also wanted to create a research program to improve the efficiency of gas turbines used in power generation systems that convert heat into energy.

General Electric has announced that it has signed three contracts to sell about $ 2.7 billion in gas and steam turbine equipment to the North African nation of Algeria.

They have faulted Gov. Cuomo for continuing to promote the burning of fracked gas across the state, including his proposal to add two new gas turbines in Arbor Hill to heat the Empire State Plaza.

Wike claimed that the money was the proceeds of the sale of gas turbines by ex-Governor Rotimi Amaechi, who was his predecessor in office.

Gas turbines are also attractive because natural gas is relatively cheap and abundant, due in part to the introduction of hydraulic fracturing technology, or fracking, which uses high - pressure water to extract hydrocarbons from previously inaccessible shale deposiGas turbines are also attractive because natural gas is relatively cheap and abundant, due in part to the introduction of hydraulic fracturing technology, or fracking, which uses high - pressure water to extract hydrocarbons from previously inaccessible shale deposigas is relatively cheap and abundant, due in part to the introduction of hydraulic fracturing technology, or fracking, which uses high - pressure water to extract hydrocarbons from previously inaccessible shale deposits.

If natural gas — fed turbines could increase efficiency by just another 5 percent, it would save $ 180 billion by 2040 in electricity costs.

Light permanent fires in seams too deep for conventional mining and, engineers hope, they can siphon off the resulting vapours as fuel for gas turbines at the surface.

A mixture of gas turbine and diesel generators should be used, he says, and water and air cooling systems should both be considered for diesel generators in case a shortage of air or water might be an issue at the generator location.

COPENHAGEN — Revolutionizing the energy industry to achieve a target concentration of greenhouse gases in the atmosphere of no more than 450 parts per million (ppm) would require building 17 nuclear power plants a year between now and 2030; 17,000 wind turbines a year; or two hydropower dams on the scale of Three Gorges Dam in China, according to the International Energy Agency.

Regardless of how cheap such small modular reactors may allow nuclear to be in future, it is unlikely to be as cheap as natural - gas - fired turbines in the present.

Rocket engines, gas turbines and diesel engines experience conditions in their combustion chamber that exceed the critical conditions of their fuel, and supercritical finely atomized sprays are used to coat tablets in the production of medicines.

Fossil fuel industries collect some $ 4 billion a year in tax breaks and other aid, reports Taxpayers for Common Sense, a group of nonpartisan budget watchdogs — and that figure doesn't even take into account hidden forms of support, such as the Pentagon's jet aircraft research and development that led to efficient new natural gas turbines.

In addition, a supercritical turbine could fit into a directly heated cycle, where a fuel like natural gas burns in the presence of pure oxygen inside the turbine, creating only water and carbon dioxide as wastIn addition, a supercritical turbine could fit into a directly heated cycle, where a fuel like natural gas burns in the presence of pure oxygen inside the turbine, creating only water and carbon dioxide as wastin the presence of pure oxygen inside the turbine, creating only water and carbon dioxide as waste.

The black hole twists hot, electrically charged gas falling in toward it just as a turbine twists streams of air.

In his vision, billions of robots on the ocean floor tend tanks of compressed air that power turbines, the Southwest is known affectionately as algae country, and energy traders make their fortunes speculating on the price of chicken - manure gas.

«With modest success in the technology management program, these cycles could compete with combined - cycle natural gas turbines and carbon capture and storage,» Dennis said.

But so is the cost of any method of reducing greenhouse gas emissions enough to make a similar difference — whether it's doubling the fuel efficiency of every single car and truck on the road (which would cost a few trillion dollars and take at least 15 years) or building scores of new wind turbines for each turbine already turning today or erecting hundreds of new solar cell arrays for every array in use today.

Low - maintenance, high - efficiency gas turbines are playing an important role in this transition, boosting the economic attractiveness of natural gas - derived electricity.

General Electric (GE), a world leader in industrial power generation technology and the world's largest supplier of gas turbines, considers gas - fired power generation a key growth sector of its business and a practical step toward reducing global greenhouse gas emissions.

In an H - class gas turbine, combustion takes place within 6 - foot - long chambers at high temperature and pressure.

The extreme conditions make it one of the most difficult processes to test at GE's gas turbine facility in Greenville, South Carolina.

«The world desperately needs higher - efficiency gas turbines because the end result is millions of tons of carbon dioxide that's not going into the atmosphere,» said Citeno, noting that in the last 2 years, more than 50 percent of gas turbines manufactured at GE's Greenville plant were exported to other countries.

Gas turbines are the engines that generate electricity in power plants.

In 2014, one such pulsation caught researchers» attention during a full - scale test of a gas turbine.