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Oct 01, 2008; ... Since 1959, Turbomachinery International Magazine (TMI) has kept readers abreast of emerging technologies and trends affecting the turbomachinery industries and energy-related markets, worldwide. And 2008 is no exception. This year, TMI has reported on some of the industries' major ...
THE GAS TURBINE MARKET
Oct 01, 2008; ... THE BOOM CONTINUES In spite of the current U.S. economic slowdown, the gas turbine electrical generation sector continues to exhibit steady growth. Domestic sales are stable, but not setting any records. Demand from developing countries is keeping the order books full for turbine ...
COAL: IN THE RECKONING
Oct 01, 2008; ... LONG TERM OUTLOOK PREDICTS A GREATER USE OF THE FUEL IN U.S. POWER GENERATION Over the past several years, many power producers had announced plans to move forward with the construction of a plethora of coal-fired generating units. At the peak of activity, well over 200 new coal-fired ...
TURBINE DEMAND SURGES IN CHINA
Oct 01, 2008; ... THE NATION STRIVES TO INCREASE LOCAL PARTICIPATION AND OWNERSHIP Demand for turbines in China is expected to advance 8.4% per annum through 2011 to 106.5 billion yuan ($14.8 billion). Market advances will be stimulated by growth in utilities construction spending, particularly on ...
SUBSIDIZING WIND
Oct 01, 2008; ... THE INDUSTRY DEMANDS A LEVEL PLAYING FIELD AND STABLE POLICIES Opinions are split when it comes to the Production Tax Credit (PTC), a subsidy that materially helps the expansion of the U.S. wind industry. The most recently available figures from the U.S. Department of Energy (DOE) for ...
TURBINES FOR NEW NUCLEAR
Oct 01, 2008; ... FEATURING HIGHER OUTPUTS AND EVOLUTIONARY CHANGES USED IN OTHER FORMS OF POWER GENERATION Nuclear is now regarded as the energy source with the lowest power generation costs in the long term. The predictability of nuclear power's costs provides a relatively stable option for generators ....
RECIPS VS. CENTRIFUGAL, et al.
Oct 01, 2008; ... THE BIGGER PICTURE SOMETIMES TELLS ANOTHER STORY Myth: Reciprocating and centrifugal compressors are equal for pipeline duty. For pipeline applications, under steady state conditions, there is a unique relationship between flow through the pipeline and pressure ratio at the ...
MAINTAINING STANDARDS
Sep 01, 2008; ... The germ for the article on API standards (p. 24) in this issue comes from a conversation an engineer working for a compressor OEM was having with a user at last year's Turbomachinery Symposium in Houston, TX. The OEM engineer was wondering about the challenges in supplying CO2 compressors as ...
GAS BOOSTING SKID PROVIDES EASE OF INSTALLATION
Sep 01, 2008; ... Valerus (Houston, TX), a supplier of fuel gas booster packages, has introduced a QuickSet skid that provides fast and effective means for hook up and fuel conditioning. The skid is a portable, customizable engineered device that features functions such as: Inlet separation, compressor auto ...
Oil sands turbine features dual inlet design
Sep 01, 2008; ... Elliott Company has been contracted to provide a 12 MW steam turbine generator for Suncor's Voyageur project in Alberta, Canada, which is expanding to reach a production target of 550,000 barrels per day in 2012. The turbine generator will capture excess steam from Suncor's recycle and rich fuel ...
New order boosts Oklahoma's wind capacity
Sep 01, 2008; ... Siemens has been awarded an order to supply 44 of its 2.3 MW wind turbines for the Keenan wind farm in Woodward County in Oklahoma. The purchaser is CPV Renewable Energy Company, a subsidiary of Competitive Power Ventures (CPV), Inc. and a power generation development company focused on the ...
Spin testing device evaluates blade stresses
Sep 01, 2008; ... Test Devices, Inc. (Hudson, MA), a materials testing firm, recently completed resonant spin tests on a series of first stage (RO) compressor blades for an F-class gas turbine. The tests were conducted to develop a new, more-efficient blade design. In blade testing, both static and dynamic ...
Mitsubishi wins global orders for M701F . . .
Sep 01, 2008; ... Mitsubishi's M701F gas turbine will power a 400 MW gas-fired combined cycle plant in the Karanodar region on the Black Sea coast. This is Mitsubishi's first gas turbine order from Russia. The plant will be operated by TGK-8, an affiliate of Lukoil. The power plant is being planned as ...
. . . and licenses nuclear turbine technology to China
Sep 01, 2008; ... Mitsubishi Heavy Industries, Ltd., has reached an agreement with the Harbin Group, one of China's three largest heavy electric machinery manufacturers, based in Heilongjiang Province, under which it will license technologies for equipment used in Pressurized Water Reactor-type plants. This ...
Dresser-Rand acquires Peter Brotherhood
Sep 01, 2008; ... Dresser-Rand Group Inc., a global supplier of rotating equipment, announced that its UK subsidiary, Dresser-Rand Company Ltd., has completed the acquisition of certain assets of Peter Brotherhood Ltd., a specialist in the design and manufacture of steam turbines, reciprocating gas compressors, ...
U.S. geothermal capacity is set to double
Sep 01, 2008; ... A survey released by the Geothermal Energy Association (GEA; www.geoenergy.org) shows continued growth in the number of new geothermal power projects under development in the U.S., a 20% increase since January of this year. The report - full text is available on the GEA website - identified 103 ...
Capturing and storing carbon in British Columbia
Sep 01, 2008; ... The U.S. Deparment of Energy's National Energy Technology Laboratory (NETL), Spectra Energy Transmission, and the Energy & Environmental Research Center (EERC) in Grand Forks, North Dakota, will collaborate on an integrated Carbon Capture and Storage (CCS) project near Spectra Energy's Fort ...
Under pressure, coal utility will retire two units
Sep 01, 2008; ... A three-year legal battle over the water intake structure at the Elm Road Generating Station (ERGS) in Oak Creek, Wisconsin, ended late last week with a settlement agreement that will provide $100 million for Lake Michigan protection projects over a 25-year period and retire two existing ...
Ameren applies for a new nuclear license
Sep 01, 2008; ... AmerenUE, a Missouri-based utility subsidiary of Ameren Corporation, announced the company submitted a combined Construction and Operating License Application (COLA) to the U.S. Nuclear Regulatory Commission (NRC) for a potential new nuclear power plant in Callaway County, MO. The 8,000-page ...
Utility plans 800 MW of solar power in California
Sep 01, 2008; ... Pacific Gas and Electric Company has entered into two utility-scale, photovoltaic solar power contracts for a total of 800 MW. This will deliver cumulatively 1.65 billion KWh of renewable energy annually. PG&E entered into an agreement with Topaz Solar Farms LLC, a subsidiary of ...