MHI receives order for 1,600 MW combined cycle plant in Thailand
01/02/2012
Mitsubishi Heavy Industries (MHI) has recently secured a full-turnkey order from Gulf JP NS Company (GNS) to construct a 1,600MW gas turbine combined-cycle power plant in Thailand.
Five weeks was all the time needed for GE to perform a major repowering upgrade of its LM2500-PE gas turbine at Cogen España's Tortosa Energía cogeneration plant in Tarragona.
Highest ever crowd visits PowerGen 2011 in Las Vegas
12/17/2011
The recent Annual PowerGen conference in Las Vegas drew over 20,000 attendees – the highest number ever – indicating that market recovery is becoming a reality.
Wood Group to maintain 7FA combined cycle plant in the US
12/17/2011
Wood Group GTS has secured a multi-million dollar facility operations, maintenance and long-term gas turbine maintenance contract from Associated Electric Cooperative, Inc (AECI) for the Dell Power Plant in Arkansas recently.
The horsepower of micro-processors has grown dramatically over the past five years, enabling smaller devices to perform more intelligent operations than their predecessors.
Colfax Corporation, a global leader in fluid-handling solutions for critical applications, today announced the acquisition of COT-PURITECH, headquartered in Canton, Ohio.
GE makes another move in a lukewarm offshore wind market
12/08/2011
Though most offshore wind turbines are doing quite well in the European Union, UK and in the German/Danish North Sea, still many power majors are hesitant to invest in offshore wind power.
Global nuclear generation capacity falls to 366.5 GW
12/08/2011
Due to increasing costs of production, a slowed demand for electricity, and fresh memories of disaster in Japan, production of nuclear power fell to 366.5 gigawatts (GW) in 2011 from 375.5 GW at the end of 2010.
Mitsubishi Heavy Industries Ltd. (MHI) has received an order from Gassnova SF, a Norwegian state enterprise handling carbon capture and storage (CCS) to undertake initial planning of the world’s largest class carbon dioxide capture facility.
With 1.3 billion people and an economy growing at a phenomenal rate of 8 to 10 percent a year, China is becoming increasingly dependent on imported oil.
With the ever-increasing demand in turbomachinery applications of couplings that connect various pieces of equipment, greater performance is required of them.
