Sentences with phrase «steam turbine plant»

Not exact matches

While they wouldn't divulge the exact number of employees to be laid off, 15 hundred workers at the Schenectady steam turbine and generator plant will not be affected.

Flash steam plants bring the hot water itself up from below; it is then sprayed into a tank to create steam to drive the 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 plant.

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.

Renewable Integration - The multi-module nature of a NuScale plant, NPM maneuverability, and steam turbine bypass allows the plant output to be varied over days, hours or seconds.

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

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.

How many wind turbines have had steam explosions and killed plant workers?

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.

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 electricity.

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

Thermal plants using nuclear energy or gas turbines to run steam - electric units are among these technological advances.

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.

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

Unlike solar photovoltaic (PV) technologies, CSP plants use steam turbines, and thus can provide most needed ancillary services.

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.

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 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.

The goal of the steam blows is to clear out any mill scale or debris inside the pipes so it does not damage the steam turbine and other balance of plant equipment once operational.

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

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.

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.»

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.

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

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.

GE supplied the full EPC for the 1,010 MW net ultra-supercritical power plant including its boiler, steam turbine, generator, and complete set of Air Quality Control Systems (AQCS).

Look historically to see how long it has taken for us to get from the first engines (petrol, diesel, steam turbine, jet engine, solar thermal engine) and nuclear power plants to where we are at now.

(Now who pays for the research value is an interesting subject) As this plant utilizes steam to turn a turbine I suspect it can support the grid the same way conventional fossil fuel plants do, and photo - voltaic and wind resources do not.

[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.

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

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.

Freeman Dyson (infinite in all directions pg194) suggested that the most efficient markets are the most diverse, and the importance of small - fast solutions to the then energy crisis.The then constraint on the then power plant use act on steam injection gas turbine (STIG) was a foremost impediment to technological development.

The project sponsor also omits the fact that it has contracted with General Electric to build less - efficient steam turbines that GE itself says are designed for supercritical power plants, not the requisite ultra-supercritical level of efficiency.

The steam is piped directly from underground wells to the power plant Directed into a turbine / generator unit.

Our solution: Planning, building, financing and operation of a 123 MW gas and steam turbine power plant and waste heat boilers (200 t / h steam capacity) located in Plattling in Germany.

The report presents details on newly developed high - temperature steam electrolysis (for hydrogen production) and gas turbine power plant subsystems.

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.

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).

Coal - fired plants use immense amounts of water to create steam to run their turbine generators.

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.

Rankine cycle: The thermodynamic cycle that is an ideal standard for comparing performance of heat - engines, steam power plants, steam turbines, and heat pump systems that use a condensable vapor as the working fluid.