Sentences with phrase «steam powers a turbine»

The focused sunlight makes heat, the heat makes steam, and the steam powers a turbine to make electricity.

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These incinerators were able to recover energy through burning waste, using the released heat to boil water, and using the steam produced to power turbines that generate electricity.

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.

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

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

Heated springs and geysers up to three miles underground can be accessed by special wells that bring the hot water (or steam from it) up to the surface where it can be used directly for heat or indirectly to generate electricity by powering rotating turbines.

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

The dry steam process brings steam up directly from below to drive turbines that power electricity generators.

Milton tells us of Charles Parsons's continued failures to convince the admiralty of the worth of his steam turbine for powering ships.

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.

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 plant.

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

Supercritical turbines would also be an attractive upgrade from steam systems aboard ships and submarines, producing the same power while occupying less space.

Supercritical carbon dioxide is easier to compress than steam and allows a generator to extract power from a turbine at higher temperatures.

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.

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.

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.

But its intake pipes, which draw seawater to cool the steam after it powers electrical turbines, are at sea level, and are susceptible to blockages.

It generates power from a gas turbine as well as a steam turbine.

The Morocco Noor Ouarzazate Concentrating Solar Power (CSP) project is based on technology that uses heat from the sun to drive steam turbines or engines to produce electricity, even at night, through a heat storage mechanism.

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

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

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.

The completed works were: (1) Primitive Power (Water Wheel)(1939, The Regis Collection, Minneapolis, MN); (2) Steam Turbine, (Butler Institute of American Art, Youngstown, OH); (3) Rolling Power (Train)(1939, Smith College Museum of Art, Northampton, MA); (4) Suspended Power (Hydroelectric Turbine)(1939, Dallas Museum of Art, Dallas, TX); (5) Yankee Clipper Airplane (1939, Rhode Island School of Design, Providence, RI); and (6) Conversation: Sky and Earth (Dam)(1939, Amon Carter Museum, Fort Worth, TX).

I gather that these may include existing obsolescent coal power station sites so that the steam turbines thereon can continue to be used.

High - pressure steam is heated to 1,000 degrees Fahrenheit, matching the tolerance of the best power plant turbine.

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.

[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 electriPower 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 electripower» 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 electripower a steam turbine and make more electricity.

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.

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.

Concentrated solar power technologies use mirrors that direct sunlight to heat an intermediary fluid, which then heats water into steam to drive a turbine.

Coal - fired power plants are simple: They burn coal to boil water, using the steam to turn a turbine.

The steam ultimately powers a turbine.

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 turPower (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 turpower 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.

This steam powers a traditional turbine and generator to produce solar 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 solar thermal power plants, using technology distinct from photovoltaics which currently dominate China's solar power market, will consist of mirrors and lenses to concentrate the sun rays to power a steam turbine.

«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 statePower 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 statepower plant,» GE Power said in a statePower 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.

TEG technologies, however, have the potential to produce geothermal electricity without all the infrastructure — turbines, steam piping, etc. — thus making small scale production and geothermally - source micro power grids both practicable and affordable.

It's this steam that drives that turbine powering our electrical generator, sending electricity throughout the grid to the people we serve.

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.

The majority of thermal storage mediums — not counting the case of molten salt — are not heated to high enough temperatures to produce steam and power turbines, generating electricity.

We have advanced controls through WiFi towers that are spread out throughout the plant and we use the latest generation of steam power technologies, steam turbines and generators provided by General Electric.»

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