Sentences with phrase «in steam turbine»

Solar energy can be concentrated with mirrors (CSP) to where it can be used in a steam turbine.

[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.

«The pressure and fluid density at the exit of our turbine is two orders of magnitude higher than in a steam turbine,» Hofer says.

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The most significant technology, in cultural terms, turns out to be not the steam turbine, or X-rays, or radio waves.

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.

The water would be used in seawater greenhouses and a concentrated solar power operation, in which mirrors focus sunlight onto water boilers to push steam - powered turbines.

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

This 11,000 kilowatt power station in Bluestone, West Virginia, ran on coal - fired steam turning Westinghouse - Parsons turbines.

In superheating, water is heated well beyond its boiling point — in this case from 1,000 to 1,300 degrees Celsius — producing high - temperature steam to run turbines and also to operate solar reactors to split the water into hydrogen and oxygeIn superheating, water is heated well beyond its boiling point — in this case from 1,000 to 1,300 degrees Celsius — producing high - temperature steam to run turbines and also to operate solar reactors to split the water into hydrogen and oxygein this case from 1,000 to 1,300 degrees Celsius — producing high - temperature steam to run turbines and also to operate solar reactors to split the water into hydrogen and oxygen.

In this state, reactors require constant power to keep them cooler than 100 °C and prevent them producing turbine - driving steam.

Nearly 50 percent of the electric power in this country comes from burning coal to create steam that drives electricity - generating turbines.

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 planIn 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 planin the 19.9 megawatt plant.

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.

Lower pressure in the coil allows the water to boil, and the resulting steam travels up the pipe to power a turbine.

The resultant steam runs a turbine, and cold water drawn up from deep in the ocean condenses the steam to start the cycle again.

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

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

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.

And at 11:08 A.M. local time Wednesday, this concentrated light heated steam in those towers to turn a turbine — the first «power towers» in the U.S. to convert the sun's heat into electricity for commercial use.

As with steam engines, fridges and gas turbines, a fundamental principle is in question here: can the efficiency be increased indefinitely, or is there a physical limit that fundamentally can not be exceeded?

But sodium also reacts explosively with either air or water, necessitating elaborate safety controls in places where it must get close to water in order to create steam to turn a turbine to make electricity, such as steam generators.

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 heat turns the water to pressurized steam, which is then used to turn generator - turbines in order to produce electricity.

This steam in turn powers turbines, which are used to produce the electricity that supplies the surrounding community.

Built in 1905, the SS Maheno was one of the first turbine - driven steamers.

Constructed back in 1905, this ship used to be among the very first steamers driven by turbine.

William Vopat authored multiple text books published by McGraw Hill in the interdisciplinary fields of applied energy conversion, steam power plants and engineering and steam turbines.

There's no reason you couldn't use the heat to drive a steam turbine or Stirling engine, just as the steam turbines in a nuclear plant are basically identical to the ones in a coal - fired plant, or for that matter a solar thermal one.

At the community or village level, the use of crop residues to power small steam turbine generators to produce electricity can deliver environmental and social benefits in addition to saving carbon.

How CHP works is by using the heat that would otherwise be wasted in exhaust gases from fossil combustion systems, such as flue gases from a coal - or biomass - fueled boiler or exhaust from a gas turbine or reciprocating engine, to produce steam and / or hot water for various industrial or commercial needs.

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

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.

Fossil fuel electric generation: Electric generation in which the prime mover is an internal combustion engine or a turbine rotated by high - pressure steam produced in a boiler or by a hot exhaust gas produced from the burning of fossil fuels.

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 heat is used to boil water in the boiler, and the energy in the steam is used to turn turbines and generators.

«GE Power will design, manufacture and deliver its market - leading ultra-supercritical technology components (boiler and steam turbine generator) for this new power plant,» GE Power said in a statement.

The light heats water in a boiler at the top of the tower, creating steam, which is used to run a conventional steam turbine like those in a typical fossil - fired power plant.

A heat exchanger creates steam that in turn runs a conventional steam turbine.

The steam turbine generator was delivered and aligned in early September.

It can produce drop - in replacement fuel for the transportation fleet and fuel to run the boilers for steam - turbine electrical plants.

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.

That steam is either used in a turbine to create electricity or for other industrial applications.

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.

Energy from combustion is used to heat water, which in turn powers a steam turbine.

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.

The fluid is sent to a heat exchanger to boil water in a conventional steam - turbine generator to produce electricity.

The steam is converted into mechanical energy in a turbine, which powers a generator to produce electricity.

In fact, the steam turbine and generator alone account for ten percent of the plant installed cost.

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.