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GE (NYSE: GE) gas turbine technology will be used to convert a conventional power plant into the first large-scale cogeneration plant in Mexico, which will offer increased efficiency and will supply process steam to one of the country’s most important natural gas complexes. The project supports the Mexican government’s initiative to promote cogeneration as a [...]
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| Tagged cogeneration plant, conventional power plant, GE gas turbine technology, ge gas turbines
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ElectraTherm’s Green Machine
Fifty percent of all fuel burned by American industry is wasted as heat. ElectraTherm Inc. in Reno, Nevada, U.S.A., has developed and is now marketing its Green Machine Waste Energy Generator that could capture this wasted energy and convert it into electricity. In the United States, ElectraTherm’s products could recover this lost energy to [...]
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| Tagged American industry, ElectraTherm Inc, fuel, generator, Green Machine Waste Energy Generator, Waste Energy
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Clean Power at the Black Sea’s Shore (Source: Siemens Energy)
Siemens Energy has received an order from the Russian company OOO RN-Tuapsinskiy NPZ, a fully owned subsidiary of OAO Rosneft, for the supply of six industrial gas turbines. The SGT-800 gas turbine power units, each rated at 47 MW, will be operated in the Tuapse refinery located [...]
Posted in CCGT power plant, power plants
| Tagged Clean Power, gas turbines, industrial gas turbines, SGT-800, Siemens SGT-800s
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Accurate Online Silica Analyzers Ensure Boiler Performance, Add Boiler Life
Plant engineers are adept at managing and maintaining aged equipment at the 800-MW Michoud power station, located 10 miles east of New Orleans (Figure 1). From November 2006 to November 2007, the generating station’s two units were off line less than 116 hours. Michoud Unit 2 operated [...]
Posted in Preventive maintenance, power plants
| Tagged Accurate Online Silica Measurement, Boiler Make-up, boiler tube leaks protection, Maintaining Instrumentation, Michoud power station, Monitoring Silica Levels, Plant engineers, power plant, power plant O&M, power station, turbine blades
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Spain Extends Life of Nation’s Oldest Reactor
Spain’s government on July 2 granted a four-year extension to the operating permit of the 466-MW Santa María de Garoña nuclear power plant (Figure 3). The decision follows a nonbinding recommendation by Spain’s nuclear regulator in June to issue a 10-year operating permit extension for the 38-year-old plant that was [...]
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| Tagged Nuclear Developments in Europe, nuclear power plant, Oldest Reactor
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By Britt Burt
Over the past decade, the development of new natural gas – fired generating assets has been similar to an amusement park roller coaster ride — very high peaks and the lowest of lows, with fast and stomach-churning movement between. Expect the ride to continue into the near future.
The power industry is experiencing a growth period [...]
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| Tagged development of new natural gas – fired generating, gas fired plants, NATURAL GAS, New Natural Gas–Fired Projects, Renewable energy
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Northern Italians are enjoying la dolce vita (the sweet life) even more today than they have historically, thanks to the additional electrical capacity provided by the new Livorno Ferraris power plant. Well-received by locals due to its environmentally progressive operations and low-profile appearance, the 800-MW plant is powered by combined-cycle units that burn natural gas. [...]
Posted in CCGT power plant, power plants
| Tagged air-cooled condenser, air-cooled generators, combined-cycle units, eco-friendly electricity, environmentally progressive operations, heat-recovery steam generators, Livorno Ferraris Power Plant, power plant, SGen5-1000A, SGT5-4000F, Siemens, SST5-5000 HI-L
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Construction of the Portlands Energy Centre was a logistical dream: A mothballed power plant next door had an active switchyard, natural gas pipeline, and cooling water structure. The new facility put peak power into the Ontario Power Authority’s grid from its two combustion turbines only two years after collecting the necessary permits. The entire plant [...]
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| Tagged combined cycle plant, Construction of power plant, gas-fired plant, General Electric Frame 7FA combustion turbines, Generating Station, New plant docks in Port Land, Portlands Energy, Portlands power plant
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Xcel Energy has completed the third and final project required by its 2003 Metropolitan Emissions Reduction Project agreement: repowering the Riverside Plant with a gas-fired 2 x 1 combined-cycle plant and tearing down the old coal-fired plant. Saved from demolition was the Unit 7 steam turbine system that now serves the new plant. Xcel staff [...]
Posted in Coal plant, power plants
| Tagged combined cycle plant, design and construction, Emissions Reduction Project, heat-recovery steam generators, power plant, Riverside Plant, Riverside Repowering Project, Xcel Energy
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Royal Pride Holland Commercial Greenhouse Cogeneration Plant, Middenmeer, North Holland Province, Netherlands
At Royal Pride Holland’s commercial tomato greenhouse, green thumbs and green energy go hand in hand. With a total energy utilization of 95% in this application, GE’s new Jenbacher J624 natural gas – fired engines offer the innovative greenhouse an economical supply of on-site electrical [...]
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| Tagged cogeneration applications, cogeneration plant, Commercial Greenhouse Cogeneration Plant, fossil fuel consumption, green thumbs and green energy, Jenbacher cogeneration, optimized combustion, plant fert, power and heating systems
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