When a power plant experiences issues with performance, the obvious indicators are usually a loss in load capacity or an increase in fuel consumption. However, other issues exist that can be costly, ...
One of the problems with building the world's largest and most powerful gas turbine is that you need to build a test bed to match. Having invested US$1 billion in its 500,000 bhp 9HA Harriet gas ...
8 January 2004 – The first Frame 6C gas turbine from GE Energy (formerly GE Power Systems) has successfully completed full-speed, no-load testing at the company’s Belfort facility. Key tests, ...
How low can you go? That’s the question owners of gas turbine combined cycle plants are asking these days as they are being called upon to operate those units for rapid response in markets where load ...
More than 200 GW of new generating capacity are expected to be added in the U.S. between 2011 and 2035. Natural gas will account for 60 percent of that new capacity. By 2040, natural gas will be used ...
General Electric Oil & Gas, a business unit of GE Power Systems, recently supplied a compressor train for the Malaysia LNG Tiga Sdn. Bhd. (No. 3) project at its Bintulu, Malaysia, plant. We performed ...