Sentences with phrase «new steam turbine»
The project consists of building a state - of - the - art recovery boiler by 2020 and a new steam turbine by 2022.
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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 fuels and waste are safe, the reactor won't need a heat exchanger and steam turbine generator, and the lasers we need can be bought off the shelf,» says Warren McKenzie, managing director of HB 11, which owns the patents to the new technology.
«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 oil - fired (liquid - fired) generators are only used minimally today, due to a combination of high relative fuel prices, air pollution restrictions, and the low efficiencies of the older steam turbines and newer internal combustion units.
Hofer, an engineer at GE Global Research headquarters in Niskayuna, New York, is building a compact but superefficient turbine that replaces steam with ultrahot and superpressurized carbon dioxide.
According to projections by the U.S. Energy Information Administration, the average rate for new combined cycle natural gas - fired plants (which use both a gas and a steam turbine) going online in 2018 will be around $ 48 per megawatt hour (MWh).