Sentences with phrase «to drive a turbine»

To produce electricity, the hot salt is pumped into a generator, where the heat is transferred to steam which drives a turbine.

The company says a geared solution is more efficient, uses a lot less rare earth materials and will need to be serviced less often compared with a direct drive turbine.

These heat up water in a jacket around the reactor, creating steam which can drive turbine generators.

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

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

This heat energy, in turn, mechanically drives a turbine, which outputs electricity.

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

These tubes are then packed together in bundles that are inserted into the reactor core, where they heat water to produce steam to drive a turbine generator to produce electricity.

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.

When the bulge reaches the end, the pressurised water drives a turbine.

Germany's Enercon is the only company to succeed with a direct - drive turbine so far, but its models are only built for onshore installation.

The company plans to recover some of this energy by fitting a turbine inside the tailpipe: the fast - moving exhaust gases coming straight from the engine drive the turbine, generating electricity.

A wastegate regulates the exhaust gas flow that enters the exhaust - side driving turbine and therefore the air intake into the manifold and the degree of boosting.

Exhaust - gas percussion is usually subdued by driving a turbine.

Last year, wind driven turbines produced less than 0.1 percent of America's electricity supply - compared to 52 percent generated from coal, according to the U.S. Department of Energy.

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.

Whereas turbines with gearboxes were once standard, the trend is toward direct drive turbines with permanent magnet technology, which are relatively lighter and more compact.

These include parabolic troughs which use the sun's heat to create steam that drives turbines similar to those found in conventional power plants, and photovoltaic cells that rely on an expensive and increasingly limited raw material stock.

Production and installation costs should also be lower once production of direct drive turbines scales up; the example above about the 3 MW turbine nacelle weighting 12 tons less than the 2.3 MW nacelle makes a big difference when you have to ship and install hundreds of turbines...

According to Bergey, a federal credit would not only be an immediate benefit to taxpayers, but would also drive turbine prices down through increased manufacturing.

It is then pumped back to the surface and passed through a heat exchanger, which drives a turbine, generating electricity.

The technology involves heating warm surface water to produce steam that drives a turbine generator.

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.

Stoney Corners Wind Farm features 2 prototype direct drive turbines, manufactured by Northern Power Systems right in Michigan!

The resultant steam drives turbines that rotate electrical generators.

On the West Coast, General Fusion in Burnaby, British Columbia, is using an approach that includes heat transfer to drive a turbine.

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

The heat from the helium can then be used to create steam to drive a turbine.

During the next 4 years, Bourtourault compared the efficiency and economic viability of different processes of producing gaseous fuels from biomass to drive turbines; he also contributed to the blueprint of a national biofuels programme.

First coal is burned, boiling water and producing steam that drives a turbine to generate electricity.

The P2 generates energy when its large floating tubes, connected by hinged joints, bob in the waves, moving hydraulic rams that pump high - pressure fluid to drive turbine.

The pipe snakes over miles to a heat exchanger, which makes steam to drive a turbine.

The rise and fall with each wave alternately pressurizes and depressurizes the air at the top, which can drive a turbine; Wavegen in Scotland, partly owned by Siemens, the giant electrical company, recently opened a 100 - kilowatt generator based on this system.

And a direct drive turbine has to have four times more electrical components than a geared turbine, which would increase the chance of a malfunction.

So they have a lot of options, and they're using them now — using these steam - driven turbines, for example.

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.

So they are using some very unusual methods of getting water into the core, they're using steam - driven turbines — they're operating off of the steam generated by the reactor itself.

There's no electricity required to run these steam - driven turbines.

Syngas, a mixture of carbon monoxide and hydrogen, will be extracted from the gas output and used to drive turbines and generate electricity.

Whether burning coal, concentrating sunlight or splitting atoms, most thermal power plants use the energy for the same thing: heating water into steam to drive a turbine.

In a boiling water reactor like those at Fukushima, the same water that cools the reactor core also boils and drives the turbine to generate power.

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

As it expands, it drives a turbine to make electricity.

EPD's trick is to use sand as the heat - exchange substance, using it to create steam and drive a turbine.

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.