Gas Turbines

The Net Power platform will use lessons learned from the development and testing at Net Power’s demonstration facility and the company’s power plant.

Women are making strides in the male-dominated turbomachinery and power generation fields, progressing in turbine efficiency, renewable energy integration, and power plant optimization.

The transition from coal, increased electrification, and rise of AI computational demand may allow the turbine fleet to achieve 10 million hours of cumulative runtime.

The next-gen engine features two stages of variable stator vanes, cooled high-pressure turbine blades, and additively manufactured components.

The company will deliver CO2 compression and monitoring technologies for the Sweetwater Carbon Storage Hub and gas turbines for power generation applications.

Scott DeNeale of Oak Ridge National Lab shares trends in hydropower—from modular designs to additive-manufactured Francis turbines.

Initially, the venture will advance four natural gas, combined-cycle power plant projects totaling over 5 GW in the ERCOT & PJM markets.

Bobby Noble of EPRI says gas turbines are “well sought after” thanks to data center power demands and shifts in the energy portfolio mix.

Bert Warner of PERC and Jim Crouse of Capstone discuss propane’s greatest benefits: ease of deployment and transportation infrastructure.

The commissioning of Kuo Kuang 2 replaces older, CO2-intensive plants on the grid, emitting up to 66% less greenhouse gases than coal- or oil-driven power.

The company is working with partners to increase the feed-in of renewable electricity for the Friedrichshafen, Augsburg, and Aiken/USA plants and their local grids.

Jeffrey Benoit of PSM says there are no big technical barriers, “it’s a matter of getting these technologies into products and commercially operated gas turbines.”

With the detailed design review complete, GE Aerospace will execute a contract to procure, assemble, and test a XA102 full-scale demonstrator engine.

The IANUS project will also expand research laboratories and develop modular electrolyzers for large-scale, multi-MW industrial applications.

Kevin Clark of Clarion Events says, "Power generation is having its day ... again," with data centers, onshoring manufacturing, and electrification beefing up demand.

The M701 JAC gas turbine represents the first deployment of this technology in a Middle Eastern aluminum smelter, contributing to Aluminum Bahrain’s decarbonization goals.

Jeff Wirt of EnergyLink International and Paul DiMascio of ProEnergy explain how their ammonia direct injection system and dual-use catalyst improves NOx reduction.

Jeff Benoit and Bobby Noble discuss the reliability and flexibility of gas turbines and how they satisfy many needs within power generation.

OEMs are using AI- and ML-equipped software and control systems to improve data quality and reliability, automate tasks, monitor assets, assist smaller crews, and make predictive maintenance commonplace.

Once operational, the plant's two gas turbines will generate a combined 990 MW, representing nearly 7% of Morocco's national grid capacity.

Integrating CFD analysis software into blade design software increases time-to-market.

The 52-MW Bushy Park combustion turbine facility in South Carolina commercially operated with the LM6000 gas turbine and generator on Nov. 1.

Paul DiMascio of ProEnergy discusses how a direct ammonia injection system impacted emissions, costs, footprint, and efficiencies.

Keynote panelists discuss the latest innovations in gas turbine combustion systems, carbon capture, hydrogen, ammonia, and more.

Paul DiMascio of ProEnergy discusses how direct ammonia injection systems simplify NOx and CO removal.