Sentences with phrase «steam turbines for»

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

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

Technology that concentrates solar thermal power using mirrors or lenses and then converts the energy to heat a steam turbine for power generation

Not exact matches

Additionally, late last year, GE agreed to purchase subsea drilling technology from Oceaneering International, and subsequently inked an agreement to purchase Alstom's gas and steam turbine business for approximately $ 17 billion.

The hydrogen would be stored for use overnight to superheat water and run the steam turbines, or it could be used for other applications, producing zero greenhouse - gas emissions.

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.

Most systems use a heat exchanger to boil clean water for steam to spin a turbine.

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.

As it stands, eSolar expects to generate five megawatts of electricity with its refurbished 1940s - vintage General Electric steam turbines roughly 25 percent of the time, which coincides generally with peak demand for electricity, Tyner says.

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.

Its scalding 480 - degree - Fahrenheit (250 - degree - Celsius) steam drives a turbine generating a peak capacity of 11 megawatts (MW) of electricity for the national grid.

The efficiency of home furnaces, steam turbines, automobile engines and light bulbs all help to fix the demand for energy.

-- For the circulating connection of the device to steam turbines, what challenges could we expect?

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.

[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.

How CHP works is by using the heat that would otherwise be wasted in exhaust gases from fossil combustion systems, such as flue gases from a coal - or biomass - fueled boiler or exhaust from a gas turbine or reciprocating engine, to produce steam and / or hot water for various industrial or commercial needs.

After the energy integration more than 30 MW of process heat is used directly for heating up the feed gas to the reactor R1 and for producing electricity via 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.

«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.

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.

That steam is either used in a turbine to create electricity or for other industrial applications.

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

I once had another engineer complain that my computer simulation program for a turbine - generator was wrong, because the exhaust steam temperature was too high.

The idea of using CO2 to power a steam turbine has been around for a while.

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).

This inactivity occurs for 14 hrs of the day and the continual heating and cooling is not good for steam turbine operation.

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.

The turbine, made from a nickel - based superalloy that can handle temperatures up to 715 degrees Celsius and pressures approaching 3,600 pounds per square inch, replaces steam with ultrahot and superpressurized carbon dioxide, allowing for a smaller design.

(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.

Because gas combustion turbines require no cooling (having no steam to condense), the overall combined cycle system requires much less water for cooling than traditional steam turbine technologies.

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.

The commercial reality is that burning corn cobs to produce steam for a turbine is almost equal in cost to using controlled fission to heat the boiler.

As an example, the 1,532 MW of emissions - free Bruce Nuclear refurbished generation, at a capacity factor of 90 % supplying 12.08 TWh, easily covered the loss of 4.1 TWh of coal - fired generation and left 8.7 TWh for added demand due to its flexibility to steam off or bypass the turbines.

The hot temperature solar steam input may be of the order of 550C (823K) for a power tower (250C for parabolic trough), compared to 1500 C (1773 K) for the GE / MHI turbines.

Comparison of Different Technologies for Integrated Solar Combined Cycles: Parabolic Trough, Fresnel and Central Receiver Heating the Steam of the Rankine Cycle or the Air of the Gas Turbine

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

The steam turbine (30.59 quads) for power generation and the spark - ignition engine (17.41 quads) for transportation are the two dominant technologies.

As Table 1 and Figure 2 show, four conversion technologies — the steam turbine, combustion turbine, spark - ignition engine, and compression - ignition engine — are responsible for 65.4 % of all energy consumption in the United States.

Second, heat recovered from these gases, with additional firing, is the source for producing steam that drives a steam turbine.

The heat is e.g. condensing heat from steam turbines or hot flue gases exhausted from gas turbines, for industrial use, buildings or district heating.

Of the 39.6 quads consumed for electricity generation, 90 % is provided by the steam turbine (at 75 %) and combustion turbine (at 15 %) alone.

As the gas turbine starts and ramps up, it increases its output at the steepest possible gradient right up to full load, without waiting for staggered startup of the steam turbine, as is customary.

If proven, it could potentially be used as a pathway for using nuclear fuels to generate motion while bypassing the steam turbine.

Electricity generators typically use steam turbines to transform energy from the burning of fossil fuels such as coal into electricity that can be used for residential, commercial, industrial, or transportation purposes.

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).

Toshiba, for example, will supply the steam turbine generators.

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.

The exiting heat is routed to a conventional boiler or to a heat recovery steam generator for utilization by a steam turbine in the production of electricity.