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GE Energy and Mitsubishi Heavy Industries sign final agreements to co-develop world’s most advanced new steam turbine for combined-cycle power plants
GE Energy and Mitsubishi Heavy Industries, Ltd. (MHI) have signed final agreements to co-develop a “next generation” steam turbine for use in gas turbine combined-cycle power plants. The co-development effort will focus on the design of a new, advanced steam turbine, leaving each of the parties to separately manufacture and sell the co-developed steam turbine in support of its natural gas-fired, ...
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TURBO EXPO in Phoenix, June 18 - 20, 2019
Come and visit the Maul-Theet booth #347. We will display our frequency test stand (VTS). Maul-Theet offers customised test stands for gas- and steam turbine blades as well as for any kind of engine blades. Our clients get custom hard and software, the commissioning and training made by Maul-Theet. Come around and have a chat! We are happy to welcome you on the TURBO EXPO in ...
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Robins & Morton Receives Triangle Safety Award
Southern Company presented Robins & Morton with their Triangle Safety Award for the Kemper County IGCC Steam Turbine Generator Installation Project in Mississippi. The Triangle Safety Award is a Southern Company honor which recognizes contractors that achieve very high thresholds of safety performance. To be eligible for the award, a contractor must have completed at least 40,000 man-hours ...
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ATTSU manufactures a superheated steam electric boiler of 1 Tn/h.
ATTSU manufactures an electric steam boiler model GE 1000 RV, to produce 1,000 kg/h of steam at 8 bar. The high-quality steam produced is reheated in the own boiler up to a temperature of 310°C. Designed and built to ASME standards, the boiler is aimed at the maintenance of steam turbines. The supply voltage is 690V and may be also for 400V or 1000V. The control is centralized in a ...
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Siemens to deliver turbines to Morocco`s Noor projects
Siemens is to provide three steam turbines for Morocco's Noor II and III solar power plants by the end of 2016, local media reported June 15. The projects are being developed by ACWA Power. The 200 MW Noor II plant will use parabolic trough technology and is scheduled to start up in 2017. The 150 MW Noor III plant will use a central tower system and is set to come online in 2018. Recent ...
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Siemens to supply wind and steam turbines for renewable energy projects in Spain – Order volume more than EUR170 million
Siemens Power Generation (PG) has received major orders from Spain to supply wind turbines as well as key equipment for solar thermal power plants. ACS, Spain’s largest construction company, has ordered 50 wind turbines with a capacity of 2.3 megawatts (MW) each to be erected in four wind farms in Andalucía. ACS has also ordered an industrial steam turbine for the solar-thermal power plant ...
By Siemens AG
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African Steam Turbine Market Set to Grow Amidst Rising Electricity Demand, Notes Frost & Sullivan
CAPE TOWN, South Africa - Driven by a period of significant economic growth, the demand for electricity within sub-Saharan Africa is rapidly approaching supply capacity and in many countries exceeding it. The resultant demand for new generation capacity is boosting growth in the steam turbine market for the region. 'The sub-Saharan African steam turbine market is expected to grow considerably ...
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GE & Caithness Announce Innovative Power Deal that Could Exceed $1B to Build Multiple HA Combined-Cycle Power Plants in US
GE and Caithness Energy recently announced an exclusive agreement with the intent to pursue development of multiple new HA combined-cycle power plants in the United States. The equipment package that GE will deliver as part of the agreement has a total value that could exceed $1 billion. The package is configured to include up to six high-efficiency HA gas turbines, six steam turbines, six heat ...
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On-Site Turbine Repair at Major Power Plant Keeps the Lights On
In-Place Machining Company helped keep the lights on in Arizona with precision on-site machining critical components of a steam turbine repair. The Field Machining job consisted of Laser Tracker Measurement, Milling, and Line Boring of a 12′ x 20′ split joint on an HP – IP turbine outer shell. Unique Solutions to Demanding Jobs The split joint machining was completed with one ...
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CSP projects set for cost reductions from wider roll out of molten salt storage: Halotechnics
The development of scalable storage-only technology, using electricity to heat molten salts, would help reduce costs for CSP projects, Justin Raade, CEO of energy storage systems supplier Halotechnics, said. The deployment of molten salt storage on a wider range of generation types would increase the bankability of CSP with storage, Raade told CSP Today. Halotechnics is proposing to use thermal ...
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HS-Orka, Statoil, IDC and other Icelandic partners drill the world’s hottest geothermal well
IDDP (Iceland Deep Drilling Project) is the name of a scientific project which started in the year 2000. The first well was drilled in in Reykjanes by HS-Orka, 2004-2005 but the well had to be abandoned in 2006. Following that it was decided to move to another drilling field, Krafla in northern Iceland in the year 2009. After drilling down to 2104 mtr the operation had to be terminated when the ...
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One of the World`s Largest Geothermal Power Plants Commences Commercial Operation
Toshiba Corporation (TOKYO: 6502) and Ormat Technologies Inc. (NYSE: ORA) today announced that the first unit of the Sarulla geothermal power plant, one of the world's largest power plants, located in Indonesia's North Sumatra, has commenced commercial operation. The approximately 110 MW power plant, which combines flash and binary technologies to provide a high efficiency power plant and 100% ...
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GE Technology Selected for World’s Largest Floating LNG Platform
GE Oil & Gas (NYSE: GE) has entered into an agreement with Technip to supply two steam turbine-driven compressors for the Shell Prelude Floating Liquefied Natural Gas (FLNG) project. The facility, which is to be based offshore Australia, will be the largest floating offshore facility in the world. Technip and Samsung Heavy Industries (SHI) formed a ...
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Ministry of new & renewable energy to participate at CSP today India
CSP Today announced this week that the Ministry of New and Renewable Energy, World Bank and IREDA have been confirmed to participate at the 3rd CSP Today India Summit (14-15 March, Leela Kempinski Hotel, Gurgaon, Delhi). The latest additions will discuss the impact that Phase I of India’s National Solar Mission has had on future industry growth. As well as this, the latest fiscal ...
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Sulzer Acquired Independent Service Provider in Morocco
On July 28, 2015, Sulzer acquired the business of Expert International Pompe Service (EIPS) located in Casablanca, Morocco. Through this acquisition, Sulzer expands its footprint in North Africa. EIPS achieved revenues just below CHF one million in 2014. The integration of the company will start immediately. Expert International Pompe Service (EIPS) was founded in 2011 and offers ...
By Sulzer Ltd.
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R. Baker & Son Project highlight - Yankee atomic nuclear plant dismantling project
R. Baker & Son performed the dismantling and removal of the secondary side of the Yankee Atomic nuclear power plant in Rowe, MA. This complex 6-month project involved a 185 MW steam turbine generator and its ancillary equipment, including a high-pressure turbine rotor and blading, an installed low-pressure turbine rotor, the generator itself, the rotating and static exciters, and ...
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Metso wins an order for the heat recovery steam generator for Vantaan Energia`s new waste-to-energy plant
Metso Corporation's press release on July 5, 2011 at 2:00 p.m. local time Metso will supply Vantaan Energia Ltd with a heat recovery steam generator (HRSG) including main accessories, installation and commissioning. The boiler will be delivered by the Metso-Wärtsilä joint venture MW Power and it will be installed into a new waste-to-energy (WtE) plant in Långmossebergen in the ...
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Siemens benefits from first off-site X-ray stress measurements
Siemens required a series of residual stress measurements to be carried out on a 2 m long steam turbine rotor shaft, designed for use in power plants. NPL's new portable X-ray system, the Pulstec µ-x360, meant the Advanced Materials team was ideally placed to accept the measurement challenge. The lifetime of a structural component is usually determined by interactions between defects ...
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Protecting engineering materials from water impact
Erosion caused by the impact of water droplets on component surfaces can lead to failures in key technological applications. For example, in steam generating plants, the leading edge of turbine blades suffer major erosion damage from the steam driving the turbines, requiring costly maintenance and repair with consequent loss of generating capacity. Similarly, erosion caused by the impact of rain ...
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GE launches dedicated power generation products and services business unit in China
GE Seeks to Localize Business Capabilities in China New Business Unit Responsible for Heavy Duty Gas Turbine, Steam Turbine, Generator and Gasification Activities GE Veteran Yang Dan Chosen as General Manager of New Business Based in Beijing GE (NYSE: GE) today announced it has established a new, dedicated Power Generation Products and Services business unit in China to more effectively ...
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