TransCanada Turbines marks 10 years of operation with growth and facility expansion.
When it comes to gas turbine maintenance, one company that has expanded its array of services and capabilities available to operators of aeroderivative gas turbines is Calgary, Alberta, Canada-based TransCanada Turbines Ltd. (TCT) — a company that marked its 10th year of operations last summer. [...]
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About 110 years after the Belgica expedition—a polar voyage organized by the Geographical Royal Society to establish the world’s first Antarctic scientific research program—a new, unique research station sponsored by the Belgian Federal Government has been commissioned. Inaugurated on Feb. 15 after two years of construction, the Princess Elizabeth Station is the only polar base [...]
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Emerson Process Management has announced the formation of an alliance with Mitsubishi Power Systems Americas Inc. (MPSA). The alliance, which combines Emerson’s experience in power plant automation and control with Mitsubishi’s experience in gas and steam turbine design and service, applies to North American and Latin American turbine retrofit projects supporting W251, W501D5, W501D5A and [...]
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ESCO Turbine Technologies has named Jim Liberator vice president of sales. Liberator joined ESCO in 1984 as an engineer and has also held several sales and management positions. Jim was a key member of a transition team that sold the Engineered Metals Group to Samuel, Son & Co. in 2006.Most recently, Liberator served as Samuel’s [...]
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The Steel Winds project in Lackawanna, New York, was selected as a POWER 2007 Top Plant because of its unusual location (a former steel mill and Superfund site) and because it was the first commercial deployment of the Clipper Windpower 2.5-MW turbine. That report was written just as the project entered commercial service but before [...]
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The Galapagos Islands, home of the unusual flora and fauna that inspired naturalist Charles Darwin’s groundbreaking work on evolution, are striving to promote clean energy that protects the area’s unique biodiversity.Part of that effort is the 2.4-MW San Cristobal Wind Project, which displaces diesel-powered electricity generation. This new energy source will cut greenhouse gas emissions [...]
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We are pleased to bring you the 3rd annual Mechanical Drive Order Survey,an exclusive to Diesel & Gas Turbine Worldwide. This is a continuation of our other survey efforts, including the 32nd Power Generation Order Survey and the annual Marine Propulsion Order Surveys, published in our October and November issues, respectively.
The Mechanical Drive engine order reporting [...]
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Scotland is strategically placed at the widening funnel in which the churning waters of the North Sea meet those of the Norwegian Sea.The region is thought to have 25% of Europe’s tidal power resources and 10% of its wave power potential. Recently,the Crown Estate,which owns the UK seabed and controls the rights out to 200 [...]
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An increasing number of low-pressure steam turbines—especially at supercritical fossil units—have experienced stress corrosion cracking in the blade attachment region of their low-pressure rotors. Approaches to solving this problem range from redesign of the attachment and blade replacement to in-situ weld repair. Regardless of the procedure selected, the solution must completely restore the turbine performance [...]
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Voith Siemens Hydro will supply four reversible 213 MW pump turbines, and the relating spherical valves, for the expansion of a pumped storage plant in L Muela, Spain.
The contract value is worth approximately €36 million. The La Muela II project will start operation in 2012 and will expand the capacity of the existing La Muela pumped [...]
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