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Biomass Turbine Cooling in Power Plants: Changing the Model

The power production industry is changing. Increasingly, we encounter environmental challenges like climate change and the greenhouse effect, as well as the decline of fossil fuels reserves. This has led to the re-imagining and adaptation of power production from older carbon-based power plants to n[..]
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Repowering Power Plant: Reach Maximum Production and Efficiency

Repowering has many meanings, all pointing at replacement or improvement of design for better results. For instance, in the renewable energy sector, many operators are opting to dismantle and replace old turbines with new ones at the existing project sites. In the solar panels industry, repowering i[..]
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Gas Turbines Optimization in Power Plants

Both new and existing gas turbine power plants for combined-cycle, simple cycle, cogeneration and mechanical drive applications need Turbine Inlet Air Cooling (TIAC) technology for power output maximization and energy efficiency improvement. Without conversance with the natural steps for TIAC design[..]
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Power Generation Industry: Gaps and Solutions

Climate change and clean energy issues have made the world such an uncertain and dynamic place. Governments and everyone else concerned are constantly looking for the way forward in the power generation industry. In the midst of this entire mere, focus on enhanced power efficiency remains crucial. E[..]
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TOP Industries With Highest Energy Wasted

The need for enhanced energy efficiency is perhaps one of the most popular topics across industries today. As they say, numbers never lie. The Global-Energy-Assessment of 2012 showed that we waste up to 66% of the energy we produce. Another area we can easily agree is that some industries are more e[..]
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Heat Recovery Steam Generator Technology

The power generation industry is leaning towards combined cycles, which are in high demand for their minimal delivery time and higher efficiency. Enhanced efficiency is beneficial for both countering the greenhouse effect and reducing fuel expenses. One of the most important components in combined c[..]
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Turbine Gas Power Plants vs. Gas Engine

Are gas turbines losing their market share to gas engines? This question does not seem to leave the lips of power plant industry players. Gas turbines have conventionally been the sole technology of choice for larger sized heat and power projects. If you ask any industry expert, the situation could [..]
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Industrial gas turbines for mechanical drive

Regardless of your location on the globe, you must know that liquefied natural gas (LNG) is growing in popularity at a very surprising rate. Experts are calling for a doubling of the worldwide capacity of this product by 2020. Many countries are already heeding to these calls, with reports of positi[..]
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Advanced Refrigeration Systems for Power Plants

Sydney Smith (1771–1845) once said, “It is the greatest of all mistakes to do nothing because you can only do a little”. In the context of our topic for today, this quote relates to the fact that energy efficiency is an inexpensive way of power plants to meet various both economic and ecological dem[..]
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Best material for storing heat in Power Plants

The world is consuming more energy. In 2013, the US Energy Information Administration's (EIA) reported that the world would consume 56% more energy by 2040. While increasing the capacity of gas turbine generators may seem very logical, the capital intensity of this approach is often a hindrance. ARA[..]
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What’s Really the Point of Gas Turbine Maintenance?

Gas turbines are a common sight in distributed energy applications. Driven by the ever-increasing need for higher peak loads in utilities, facility operators have found it necessary to ensure peak performance of gas turbines. One way of ensuring efficient performance of the gas turbine is regular ma[..]
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Advances in gas turbine technology: Combined Cycle Power Plants

The change in power generation market over the last few years has been astounding. Market diversification has been very influential in Europe and other regional markets as feed-in prices decline and subsidization of renewable energy generation grows. Utilities and regulators have obviously been at t[..]
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