Turbomachinery International: May/June 2025

Turbomachinery International’s May/June issue is live. It is packed with insights from turbomachinery, energy, and power generation experts as they weigh in on surging power demand, gas turbine supply constraints (and booming orders), and data center buildouts.

The 2024 gas turbine market report lays out order activity among aeroderivatives, packaged turbines, and more: MW reported orders were up 32.4%, and unit orders were up 4.1% in 2024. It also identifies five market drivers for industrial gas turbines and forecasts for 2025 and beyond.

“Order activity is up significantly in 2024, primarily driven by large jumbo unit orders for the electric power utility segment, but aeroderivative orders remain strong as well,” said Tony Brough, President of Dora Partners and Company.

At CERAWeek by S&P Global 2025, the U.S. Secretary of Energy, Chris Wright, strongly supported pipelines, drilling, fracking, LNG, and gas turbines. Mark Axford of Axford Turbine Consultants reported that utilities and developers in many U.S. regions are racing to install baseload gas turbine combined-cycle power, but they can’t get it fast enough—the large gas turbine supply is essentially sold out for the next three to four years.

Our show report from WTUI 2025 underscores the uptick in power demand and the pressure it’s putting on current power plants. “Energy providers are scrambling to add generation to meet the need,” said Ed Jackson, President of WTUI. “Not only is the lead time for major equipment increasing, but even the time it takes to build plants could take years to permit and build. This puts a lot of pressure on the existing generation.”

This edition’s product spotlight is on Exergy International. The company shares technical details on its newly developed turbo expanders for modular organic Rankine cycle power plants.

The Myth Busters debunk the myth: “We need that last percent.” Klaus Brun and Rainer Kurz call it the perfection trap, in which organizations become obsessed with reaching that last percent, but at what cost? This push for perfection is far from perfect, as it is often costly and inefficient, and can lead to delays and even diminished operational flexibility. And Amin Almasi’s Turbo Tips column, “How Vibrations Affect a Turbomachine’s Reliability and Operation,” dives into how to deal with vibration and prevent operational problems and failures.

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