Technology & Innovation
GE is celebrating "20 years of powering progress around the world" as its LM6000 aeroderivative gas turbine that achieved more than 26 million operating hours.
Dehumidification is key for keeping a mothballed power station operationally ready while protecting it from corrosion or degradation during its temporary closure, says Carl Webb who worked with Andrews Sykes when Barking Power Ltd. temporarily closed one 500MW unit at…
E.on's Power-to-Gas (P2G) unit, installed at a plant in Falkenhagen, Germany, has injected hydrogen into the natural gas grid for the first time. During the 3-hour functioning test over the weekend, the unit produced 160 cubic meters of hydrogen for…
Rolls Royce has been working alongside power plant operator Vattenfall to upgrade the design of its Trent60/DLE which led to a redesign for this model, Dr. Andreas Goetz, Chief Engineer, Trent 60 GT, Energy at Rolls-Royce Canada said in a…
The resemblance between Montana, a state in north-western United States and European countries like Spain, Denmark or Germany is striking. "What we are seeing in Montana and also here in Europe is that our FT8 SWIFTPAC aero-derivative gas turbines are…
Alstom’s GT26 gas turbine can already handle shale gas and other variable fuels as internal calculations show that shale gas and LNG will be within the company’s hydrogen gas experience range. “We get prepared for extreme cases of shale gas with lots of…
At this week's VGB Congress on gas turbines, Siemens regional sales manager for Germany, Dietmar Augele spoke to Gas to Power Journal on the company's recently launched hard-wearing SGT 750 industrial gas turbine, capable of reducing NOX to single digits.
Loccioni, a developer of automated control systems, has launched a Smart Carbon project that allows operators of fossil power plants to monitor and regulating the coal combustion process to add economic value to operations and reduce their carbon footprint.
Alstom's environmental measures, on both new plants and retrofits of existing power plant facilities, have helped its customers save a total of 207 million tonnes (mt) of carbon emissions annually over the last decade.
ExxonMobil has launched Mobil DTE™ 932 GT, a gas turbine oil designed to reduce the risk of varnish with a view to help improve the operational reliability of turbines and increase power output. "Varnish can have a highly detrimental effect on…
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