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  Technical notes on gas turbine sizing, speed, start-up, and component life

  1   INTRODUCTION Technical notes on gas turbine starting device, starting, reference check, component life, inspection, sizing and speed range selection are discussed. The main concerns are gas turbine ...

  On December 11, 2011 / By TMI Staff & Contributors
• Gas Turbines

  32 Rolls-Royce RB211 will be supplied as part of $ 651m Petrobras contract

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  On December 1, 2011 / By TMI Staff & Contributors
• Gas Turbines

  Alstom GT24 gas turbine boosts operational flexibility

  The next generation of the Alstom GT24 gas turbine has been designed to deliver over 230 MW at 40% efficiency (heat rate of 8’571 Btu/kWh). The corresponding KA24 ...

  On November 26, 2011 / By TMI Staff & Contributors
• Gas Turbines

  MAN Diesel & Turbo develop new gas turbines

  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 ...

  On November 16, 2011 / By TMI Staff & Contributors
• Gas Turbines

  GE’s first mobile aeroderivative installed in Latin America

    GE recently announced that it will provide its mobile aeroderivative technology power plants for two turnkey projects in Bolivia to help address the country’s growing demand for ...

  On November 16, 2011 / By TMI Staff & Contributors
• Gas Turbines

  FlexEnergy, DoD launch commercial production of energy from landfill gas

  FlexEnergy and DoD announce the first commercial system to generate clean energy from low-quality landfill methane with near-zero emissions. FlexEnergy Inc., an energy technology company based in Irvine, California, recently celebrated ...

  On November 12, 2011 / By TMI Staff & Contributors
• Gas Turbines

  Impact of exhaust gas recirculation on gas turbines

  Below are excerpts from a paper, ‘Flue Gas Recirculation in a gas turbine: Impact on performance and operational behavior’ by Frank Sander, Richard Carroni, Stefan Rofka and Eribert Benz ...

  On November 12, 2011 / By TMI Staff & Contributors
• Gas Turbines

  Tutorial on Modern Gas Turbines: Air-compressor, Combustion, Turbine, Control, Monitoring and Performance Curves

  1   INTRODUCTION The growth of the gas turbine application in recent decades has been brought about most significantly by four factors: 1- Metallurgical advances that have made possible ...

  On November 8, 2011 / By TMI Staff & Contributors
• Gas Turbines

  Quantifying the proven benefits of water washing of gas turbines

  Below are excerpts from a paper titled, ‘On-line compressor cascade washing for gas turbine performance investigation’ presented at the ASME/IGTI conference in 2011 in Vancouver, Canada. Uyioghosa Igie, ...

  On November 8, 2011 / By TMI Staff & Contributors
• Gas Turbines

  Dovetailing organic rankine cycle to the gas turbine exhaust

  NRGreen Power and GE recently announced plans for a new recovered energy project that will produce power without additional emissions using the first global application of GE’s ORegen ...

  On November 6, 2011 / By TMI Staff & Contributors