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Sicker, a 30-year veteran of the company, holds a degree in mechanical engineering from Ohio State University, along with an MBA from Akron University.

Siemens Energy will supply a gas and steam turbine to a 390 MW combined cycle power plant in Côte d’Ivoire.

s part of its announcement, the company outlined its ongoing organic hydrogen product development goals and recent pursuit of external research and development funding via multiple government cost share programs.

CO2 emissions in the U.S. electric power sector have dropped 28% over the last decade primarily due to coal-to-natural gas switching.

Although all NGCC generators tend to increase or decrease utilization in response to changes in the price of natural gas, older units tend not to be used when natural gas prices rise because they are less efficient and more expensive to run than newer technology units.

3D printing has opened up a completely new range of possibilities, including for example production of turbine buckets. However, the 3D printing process often induces internal stress in these components which can in the worst case lead to cracks. Now a research team has succeeded in using neutrons from the Technical University of Munich (TUM) research neutron source reactor for non-destructive detection of this internal stress – a key achievement for the improvement of the production processes.