Sentences with phrase «large steam turbines»

CSP plants are more like typical power plants and require incorporating large steam turbines and storage tanks, plus a large, flat area for the solar array.

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Reciprocating steam engines simply could not produce enough spinning power to deliver the smooth current necessary to make large - scale electricity grids feasible; by the early 1900s, turbines had made them a reality.

Known as PS10 and built by the Spanish company Abengoa Solar, the project produces electricity with 624 large moveable mirrors called heliostats, using these to concentrate the sun's heat to the top of a 115 - metre - high tower where a solar receiver and a steam turbine are located.

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.

All geothermal power plants use steam to turn large turbines, which run electrical generators.

Other possible applications CVT design by BitRaptor are: bicycles, motorcycles, cars, boats, gearboxes, electric motors, steam and wind turbine, as well as a large number of industrial or agriculture applications whenever is necessary some adjustment of the gear ratio.

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.

The turbine generator has high temperature exhaust, excellent for running steam boiler or water heat, this is attractive for large buildings that need lots of hot water such as hotels or hospitals.

Residue combustion technology includes simple steam machines for small - scale power production and steam turbines for larger power plants (ITTO, 2005).

Photovoltaic systems use conducting material to convert sunlight directly to electricity and need only nominal amounts of water to wash their solar panels, compared with the traditional steam - turbine solar that uses much larger volumes of water for cooling towers.