In 2001, David Gordon Wilson and MIT colleagues formed Wilson TurboPower Inc. to exploit a couple of patents that Wilson had assigned to MIT. They were for low-pressure-ratio highly regenerated engines that would give around 55% shaft efficiency for 300-KW sizes. WTPI demonstrated the regenerator (it operated at very high effectiveness, over 97%) and a ceramic axial-turbine blisk made by Saint Gobain to its design that could handle the specified 1500 K TIT. However, the regenerator leaked more than it should. The patents have expired, and WTPI as such no longer exists.

Asia Power Dev. Foundation, Inc., Philippines, has developed tidal turbines (8 meter radius and 24 blades) as well as modular supports to hold the turbines in their depth. 

Dresser-Rand Group Inc., a global supplier of rotating equipment and aftermarket parts and services, has recently signed a definitive agreement to acquire Synchrony, Inc.  The transaction is expected to close in January 2012. 

MAN Diesel & Turbo is set to launch prototypes of the new gas turbine family into the market, shortly after the development completion. MAN is installing a CHP cogeneration unit at the Rheinberg production plant of Solvin GmbH & Co KG, a joint enterprise of Solvay and BASF. The first of MAN's new 6 MW gas turbines will be used commercially for the plant.

Rolls-Royce aims to be one of the leading OEMs in a market where there is potential to generate more than 20GW of electricity worldwide. There is currently no commercial tidal stream energy industry and how it evolves and develops will depend on the actions of technology leaders and governments.

The DGT-5 is a 5 MW gas turbine being developed by Doosan. Below are excerpts from a paper presented by Sooyung Kim and Reewok Ryu of Doosan at the ASME/IGTI show in 2011 in Vancouver.

Centrifugal compressors are finding greater usage in Oil and Gas (O&G) applications.  Particularly as less traditional forms of gas become more commonplace, they are tending to displace other types of compressors. “Centrifugal turbocompressors more and more replace screw and/or reciprocating compressors in unconventional gas,” said Ralf Kannefass, Head of Compression & Solutions Turbo Equipment at Siemens. “This can be seen in coal seam gas or shale gas in countries with large coal and gas reserves like Australia.”

Southwest Research Institute (SwRI) has received a $9.9 million award from the U.S. Department of Energy for Phase 3 work of a CO2 compression project. This phase is to design and test carbon dioxide compression using technologies developed under previous DOE phases of the improved compression technologies program.

  EIA figures show that the most recent waves of generating capacity additions in the US include natural gas-fired units in the 2000s and renewable units, primarily wind, coming online in the late 2000s.

A Baker Institute study dismisses the notion, recently debated in the U.S. media, that the shale gas revolution is a transitory occurrence. The study projects that U.S. shale production will more than quadruple by 2040 from 2010 levels of more than 10 billion cubic feet per day, reaching more than 50 percent of total U.S. natural gas production by the 2030s. The study incorporates independent scientific and economic literature on shale costs and resources, including assessments by organizations such as the U.S.

While enthusiasm for engineering and turbomachinery was evident at the ASME International Gas Turbine Institute's Turbo Expo, it was overwhelmed by the hockey fervor that grips the city as the local Canucks fight for victory in the Stanley Cup.