Sentences with phrase «steam turns the turbine»

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The most significant technology, in cultural terms, turns out to be not the steam turbine, or X-rays, or radio waves.

Heat from garbage - fuelled incinerators can generate steam that drives a turbine that in turn drives...

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

The heated liquid is used to generate steam, which turns a turbine, generating electricity.

Hot steam can then be made to turn turbines without losing too much of the original absorbed solar energy.

The resulting heat is conveyed out of the reactor, where it turns water into steam that is used to run a turbine that drives an electric generator.

The steam produced is used to turn turbines and produce up to 5 megawatts of electricity.

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.

The heat boils a separate tank of water and turns it to steam, which in turn drives turbines that produce electricity.

When electricity is needed, the hot salt is used to boil water and produce high - temperature, high - pressure steam, which turns turbines that generate electricity.

When demand is high, the salt's heat turns water into steam to drive a turbine, making electricity.

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.

Tapping geothermal energy means facing the harsh realities of thermodynamics: Typically, geothermal electricity is generated when hot water or steam underground is piped to the surface to drive a turbine, usually through heating an intermediate working fluid that actually turns the turbine's blades.

The U.S. employs 104 light - water reactors to generate 20 percent of its electricity today; the reactors moderate uranium fission and the heat it produces with water, which is also boiled into steam to turn an electricity - generating turbine.

But sodium also reacts explosively with either air or water, necessitating elaborate safety controls in places where it must get close to water in order to create steam to turn a turbine to make electricity, such as steam generators.

This heat is then passed to a separate, secondary cooling circuit in which water is turned to steam to drive the turbines and generators.

The heat turns the water to pressurized steam, which is then used to turn generator - turbines in order to produce electricity.

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.

The resulting steam is used to turn a turbine.

They function by heating water to create steam, which then turns turbines, generating electricity.

When electricity is needed, the molten salt is pumped through a heat exchanger to turn water into steam that spins a turbine to generate electricity.

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.

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 heat is used to boil water in the boiler, and the energy in the steam is used to turn turbines and generators.

A heat exchanger creates steam that in turn runs a conventional steam turbine.

Energy from combustion is used to heat water, which in turn powers a steam turbine.

This heated fluid is then used to turn water into steam, which drives a turbine and generates electricity [FIGURE 2].

The hellish heat and pressure turn CO2 into a hot, dense liquid, allowing Hofer to shrink the turbine's size and potentially increase its efficiency a few percentage points above where state - of - the - art steam systems operate today.

Solar thermal generation is where the reflectors are concentrated on a central receiver which then heats a liquid such as sodium, which in turn heats the water to generate steam that drives a turbine coupled to a generator.

(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.

«We produce high - temperature, high - pressure steam to turn a turbine,» Desmond explained.

It gets burned, which turns water into steam, which drives turbines, which then generate electricity.

The water is heated by the bedrock producing steam that is used to turn a steam turbine.

These facilities generate solar power by using lenses and reflectors to concentrate sunlight and use it to heat fluids, which can in turn produce steam to drive a turbine.

With this water can be heated to between 500ºC and 2000ºC turning the water into steam which can then drive a steam turbine and produce electricity.

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.

A heat transfer fluid heated in the receiver up to around 600ºC is used to generate steam, which, in turn, is used in a conventional turbine - generator to produce electricity.

The steam then turns a turbine and generates electricity.

The combustion of coal in power generating plants is used to make steam which, in turn, operates turbines and generators.

The water boils, producing steam; the steam turns a traditional steam turbine.

In turn, this creates steam that spins a turbine that generates electricity.

The reflected sunlight heats water in the boilers to make steam, which turns turbines to generate electricity — enough to power more than 140,000 homes.

Because fossil fuel - burning power plants use water to turn into steam to drive turbines, and as coolant, the standards save water.

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.