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• Renewables

  OPT’s new technology to boost power output to be showcased in Spain

  Ocean Power Technologies, a leading wave energy technology company, has launched a new technology initiative to enhance the efficiency of the company’s PowerBuoy wave energy system, which will ...

  On November 1, 2011 / By TMI Staff & Contributors
• Compressors

  Why Second Order Kalman Filter is needed for Advanced Vibration Monitoring

  1   INTRODUCTION Noise is a significant issue when analyzing the measured vibration signals of turbo-machines. A suitable filter should be used to remove noise from vibration ...

  On October 30, 2011 / By TMI Staff & Contributors
• Company News

  Pratt & Whitney signs up with mobile rental power provider

  APR Energy plc and Pratt & Whitney Power Systems (PWPS) have announced a strategic partnership to increase the availability of mobile turbines for temporary power solutions. This partnership ...

  On October 30, 2011 / By TMI Staff & Contributors
• Company News

  New company is a vertically integrated supplier of hot gas path parts

  Torque Capital Group has combined its acquisitions of Triumph Precision Castings, an investment casting foundry, and Dynamic Turbine, a precision machining company, to create Triax Turbine Components. Triax ...

  On October 30, 2011 / By TMI Staff & Contributors
• Renewables

  Rolls Tidal

  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 ...

  On October 30, 2011 / By TMI Staff & Contributors
• Company News

  Dresser-Rand supports Saudi grad student research

  Dresser-Rand, a supplier of rotating equipment solutions to the worldwide oil, gas, petrochemical, and process industries, has finalized a collaborative research agreement (CRA) with King Fahd University of ...

  On October 27, 2011 / By TMI Staff & Contributors
• Gas Turbines

  Fuel composition and combustors

  The early promise of CFD-based design approaches was that the predictable nature of the calculations would enable studies of multiple gas turbine combustor designs prior to prototyping. As ...

  On October 27, 2011 / By TMI Staff & Contributors
• Steam Turbines

  Siemens’ new steam turbine

  With a rating of up to 60 MW, Siemens Energy’s SST-400 GEO steam turbine for geothermal applications combines the casing and turbine-generator package (gearbox, generator and base frame) of ...

  On October 27, 2011 / By TMI Staff & Contributors
• Auxiliaries

  How to select gas turbine filters

  As gas turbine technology continues to advance and fuel quality varies along with growing expectations of longer life, higher efficiency and reduced maintenance requirements, intake filter selection has ...

  On October 25, 2011 / By TMI Staff & Contributors
• Company News

  NAES Power Contractors has new vice president

  NAES Corporation, a broad-based provider of services to the energy industry, announces the addition of William (Will) Day as Vice President and General Manager of the NAES Power ...

  On October 24, 2011 / By TMI Staff & Contributors