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Self-erecting wind turbine hits full output in tests ahead of deployment

Envision Energy, the Chinese wind turbine manufacturer, has been building a case that its next-generation turbine designs can ...
POWER Magazine

Using ASME PTC 6 Testing to Improve Steam Turbine Performance

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, ...
Power Engineering

First GE Frame 6C gas turbine completes factory testing

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, ...
POWER Magazine

Protecting Steam Cycle Components During Low-Load Operation of Combined Cycle Gas Turbine Plants

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 ...
CNET

Inside a small wind-turbine beta test

WindTronics is one of many wind companies trying to crack into the clean energy industry. Can it make wind power affordable and revitalize manufacturing at the same time? Martin LaMonica is a senior ...
Oil

Full-load string test meets stringent goals for LNG project compressor

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 ...