Hydrogen

Xdot Bearing Technologies’ product offerings will accelerate growth in high-performance markets with advanced pumps, compressors, and high-speed rotating machines.

This win marks the company’s first overseas export deal for gas turbines, with Doosan Turbomachinery Services performing maintenance at its Houston-based location.

The field’s advanced floating production, storage, and offloading vessel is equipped with high-pressure gas compression, combined-cycle power generation, and more.

The September/October 2025 issue covers steam turbine optimization, a pump-centric conversation with the Hydraulic Institute, hybrid grid technology for stabilization, and much more.

Due to the low mole weight of hydrogen, one must increase impeller tip speed to generate higher pressure ratios and reduce overall stages.

By using a fast-starting independent gas power plant, data center operators may come online faster with increased energy security and electricity to the grid.

Large-scale gas turbines will be installed at two Xcel Energy facilities, retiring an older coal plant and powering a new peaker plant that will respond to high-demand periods.

The company’s compressor testing suggested that single-piece rotor manufacturing enables higher tip speeds, which maintains an optimal pressure ratio for compressing hydrogen.

Following the upgrade, Alpiq’s San Severo power plant may operate with up to 25% hydrogen, improved operational flexibility, and lower CO2 emissions per year.

The large-scale hydrogen co-firing engine features hydrogen leak detectors and nitrogen purge systems, with the ability to adjust the co-firing ratio during operation.

The Ansan Smart Hub will be converted into a high-efficiency, eco-friendly power plant capable of accommodating a future fuel conversion from natural gas to hydrogen.

Mechanically sealed pumps are subject to cavitation damage, thermal shock, and more when operating with ammonia, so operators deploy sealless designs to counter corrosive effects.

The new gas turbines, steam turbines, and auxiliary equipment will increase power generation capacity to meet rising industrial and residential electricity demand.

Following Mitsubishi’s large-frame turbine deliveries, the O Mon 4 power plant will raise Petrovietnam’s total installed capacity to over 9,300 MW.

The life-extension project will add up to 30 MW of additional power, with 1.8% efficiency gains, a 5% reduction in CO2 emissions, and improved grid stability.

Kawasaki Heavy Industries seeks to identify the various origins of hydrogen production, in addition to tracking carbon intensity across the co-fired, nuclear, and green typologies.

The project secured multiple customers across Norway and continental Europe, including Hafslund Celsio, Heidelberg Materials, Yara, Ørsted, and Stockholm Exergi.

Over 730,000 gallons of liquid hydrogen will power NASA’s Artemis missions, returning humans to the Moon and establishing a long-term presence off Earth.

The tests, which will track CO2 emissions across various hydrogen processes, utilize nuclear-derived low-carbon hydrogen and green hydrogen produced in Japan.

The GW Ranch combines natural gas-powered turbines and advanced battery storage technologies, delivering 5 GW to data centers without local grid connections.

The Bad Creek Pumped Storage Hydroelectric Station generates 1,680 MW for approximately 860,000 consumers in South Carolina, but its license expires in July 2027.

Bonatti is executing engineering, procurement, construction, pre-commissioning, commissioning and startup for port facilities, underground pipelines, and fiber optics.

Growing demand for carbon capture and storage technology is transforming the industry, driving demand for advanced turbomachinery and reshaping the market landscape for decarbonization efforts.

The July/August 2025 issue highlights our industry survey and key factors shaping the turbomachinery sector, including supply-chain challenges, labor shortages, and the rise of mobile and advanced technologies to meet power demand.

Turbomachinery faces challenges like labor shortages and supply chain issues, but innovative solutions help the industry meet growing energy demand.