Sentences with phrase «steam electricity plant»

Not exact matches

Newer SAGD plants such as Connacher Oil and Gas's Great Divide have managed to nearly eliminate fresh water use — they use non-potable water from aquifers and recycle it — and reduce GHG emissions by about 20 % compared to the industry average through more efficient burning of natural gas, cogeneration of electricity and reduced heat loss on the steam's journey underground.

$ 1.5 million will construct a Biomass plant that will generate steam and electricity for customers of Griffiss Business and Technology Park in Rome, continuing support for technological innovation in the Mohawk Valley.

The plant parts left over after juice extraction, known as bagasse, can be burned to produce steam and electricity.

In essence, Mountain Pass will become a chemical plant, sucking up electricity and steam from an on - site natural gas — fired boiler.

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

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.

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.

A power plant, on the other hand, produces steam at high temperature and pressure for generating electricity.

Credit: Warren Gretz Most power plants need steam to generate electricity.

Geothermal plants also differ in terms of the technology they use to convert the resource to electricity (direct steam, flash, or binary) and the type of cooling technology they use (water - cooled and air - cooled).

Thus, you'll find geothermal power plants that convert raw steam into electricity and heated water.»

The facility will also have green roofs featuring flowering plants that will help to keep the buildings cool and during the summer when the heat rises, excess steam from the local electricity plant will be used as an additional power source for running machines that keep the equipment cool.

[7] Power plant efficiency can also be greatly improved by using «combined heat and power» systems that use waste heat from the combustion process for space heating or industrial applications, [8] or by using a «combined cycle» that uses the waste heat to power a steam turbine and make more electricity.

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.

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 hotter the steam, the more electricity the plant can generate from a ton of coal.

This conversion factor of 3 is a rough approximation of the Btu value of raw fuels used to generate electricity in a steam - generation power plant.

Base load plant: A plant, usually housing high - efficiency steam - electric units, which is normally operated to take all or part of the minimum load of a system, and which consequently produces electricity at an essentially constant rate and runs continuously.

APS» Solana Generating Station, near Gila Bend, is a 280 MW Concentrating Solar Power (CSP) power plant that includes storage, providing up to 6 hours of electricity after the sun sets by using molten salt to store heat, which then turns a steam turbine.

The Crescent Dunes and Ivanpah Concentrating Solar Power (CSP) plants use mirrors to focus the sun's rays onto a heat exchanger at the top of a 600 - foot - tall tower during the day to heat a fluid that is used, either directly or indirectly, to produce steam to drive a turbine generator that produces electricity.

[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.

When power is needed from the plant, the hot salt is pumped to a generator that produces steam, which activates a turbine / generator system that creates electricity (NREL 2001).

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

Geothermal plants also differ in terms of the technology they use to convert the resource to electricity (direct steam, flash, or binary) and the type of cooling technology they use (water - cooled and air - cooled).

Today, no matter the type of power plant, almost all electricity is made by heating water to make steam and using that steam to spin a generator's turbine.

In 2005, the nation's thermoelectric power plants — which boil water to create steam, which in turn drives turbines to produce electricity — withdrew as much water as farms did, and more than four times as much as all U.S. residences.

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).

BrightSource's LPT 550 Technology BrightSource «s LPT 550 solar thermal technology produces electricity the same way as traditional power plants — by creating high temperature steam to turn a turbine.