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Uptake of GE’s Biggest Wind Turbines Gain Traction

October 10, 2019 admin 0 Comments block island, Business, cypress, dogger bank, enercon, ge renewable, haliade-x, International, New Jersey, news, nordex, ocean wind, ocean/marine, offshore turbines, Ørsted, Renewables, Research and Development, siemens gamesa, supply chains, Technology, vestas, Wind, wind turbines

Credit to Author: Sonal Patel| Date: Thu, 10 Oct 2019 13:33:55 +0000

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GE Renewable Energy has made major gains in orders for its 5.3-MW Cypress onshore wind turbine and the 12-MW Haliade-X offshore wind turbine. Prototypes of both are still being tested in the Netherlands. Key Contracts for Innovative 5-MW Onshore Machine The GE business division introduced the first turbine in the Cypress platform, a 4.8-MW machine, […]

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Facility to Make Coal Cleaner, More Efficient, Taking Shape in Wyoming

October 9, 2019 admin 0 Comments beneficiation, Business, clean coal, clean coal technologies, Coal, coal byproducts, fly ash, news, Oklahoma, Research and Development, Technology, Wyoming

Credit to Author: Darrell Proctor| Date: Wed, 09 Oct 2019 21:10:48 +0000

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Clean Coal Technologies Inc. (CCTI) has begun reassembling a test facility designed to produce a cleaner-burning and more-efficient coal. The coal beneficiation and byproducts extraction plant, first built in Tulsa, Oklahoma, for an initial test of the technology, and then moved to Gillette, Wyoming, is expected to be completely rebuilt in the next few months, […]

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NETL: Coal Chemical Looping Combustion Closer to Commercialization

October 3, 2019 admin Business, Carbon Capture, chemical looping, Coal, coal technology, costs, Environmental, netl, news, oxy-combustion, Research and Development, Technology

Credit to Author: Sonal Patel| Date: Thu, 03 Oct 2019 13:45:51 +0000

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Chemical looping combustion (CLC), an advanced coal power technology that could markedly simplify carbon capture at power plants, has moved significantly closer to commercialization, owing to a breakthrough in oxygen carrier durability, the National Energy Technology Laboratory (NETL) said. The national laboratory, which is part of the U.S. Department of Energy (DOE), revealed on […]

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India Starts Up Its First-Ever USC Coal Unit

October 1, 2019 admin ausc, Business, climate change, Coal, coal-fired technology, Fuel, hele, India, International, khargone, news, ntpc, Paris Agreement, Research and Development, Technology, ultra supercritical

Credit to Author: Sonal Patel| Date: Tue, 01 Oct 2019 04:00:06 +0000

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NTPC Ltd., one of India’s largest power generating companies, on Sept. 3 announced it had commissioned the country’s first ultrasupercritical (USC) coal-fired unit at the two-unit 1,320-MW Khargone plant that is under construction in the state of Madhya Pradesh. The development marks a major milestone for India, which depends on coal for 56% of its […]

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Exelon’s Byron 2 Completes First Insertion of Westinghouse Accident-Tolerant Fuel

September 12, 2019 admin accident tolerant fuel, Business, byron, cladding, Clinton, Exelon, framatome, gnef, hatch, Legal & Regulatory, news, Nuclear, pellets, Research and Development, Technology, Vogtle, Westinghouse

Credit to Author: Sonal Patel| Date: Thu, 12 Sep 2019 13:55:30 +0000

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Exelon’s Byron Unit 2 nuclear power plant has completed installation of EnCore Fuel, Westinghouse Electric Co.’s accident-tolerant fuel (ATF) solution, marking the start of the first test of uranium silicide fuel pellets in a commercial nuclear reactor. The installation, completed during the plant’s scheduled 18-day spring refueling outage this April, but publicly announced on Sept. […]

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SwRI to Design Flameless, Low-Emission Coal Combustion Pilot

August 15, 2019 admin Business, Coal, DOE, flameless combustion, Gas, news, oxyfuel, Research and Development, swri, Technology

Credit to Author: Sonal Patel| Date: Thu, 15 Aug 2019 14:28:22 +0000

San Antonio-based Southwest Research Institute (SwRI) said on Aug. 12 it will get $3 million from the U.S. Department of Energy (DOE), and another $760,658 from an assortment of industry giants to design a large-scale flameless pressurized oxy-fuel combustion pilot plant. The announcement is a major boost for the promising, but yet unproven technology, that […]

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How Nuclear Hybrids Could Redefine the Industry’s Future

August 1, 2019 admin arizona public service, Business, desalination, DOE, eastman, Exelon, framatome, hybrids, iaea, inl, International, national laboratories, news, nrel, Nuclear, nuclear economics, ornl, pacific gas & electric, Pakistan, pwrs, Renewables, Research and Development, southern nuclear, Technology, Westinghouse

Credit to Author: POWER| Date: Thu, 01 Aug 2019 00:00:00 +0000

The world’s nuclear sector is struggling to stay economically afloat amid a deluge of renewables and natural gas power, and reinvigorating it will require operational flexibility from new or existing

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The POWER Interview: What Drove the Gas Turbine Technology Leap at GE Over the Past 70 Years

July 30, 2019 admin alstom, belle isle, Business, efficiency, Gas, gas turbine, ge, General Electric, History, Interview, news, Plant Design, Research and Development, Technology

Credit to Author: Aaron Larson| Date: Tue, 30 Jul 2019 13:34:12 +0000

On July 29, 1949, at 2:15 p.m., General Electric’s (GE’s) first gas turbine at the Belle Isle Station in Oklahoma City began delivering power to Oklahoma Gas and Electric Co.’s distribution system. The 3.5-MW GE Frame 3 machine reportedly had an efficiency of about 17%. Since the Belle Isle machine (Figure 1) started up seventy […]

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Positive Developments for Small Modular Reactors

July 29, 2019 admin Business, china national nuclear corp., cnnc, International, Legal & Regulatory, news, NRC, Nuclear, nuclear power, Nuclear Regulatory Commission, NuScale Power, Plant Design, reactor, Research and Development, Rolls-Royce, Small Modular Reactor, smr, Technology

Credit to Author: Aaron Larson| Date: Mon, 29 Jul 2019 21:05:47 +0000

NuScale Power, Rolls-Royce, and China National Nuclear Corp. (CNNC)—three companies working on different small modular reactor (SMR) technology—recently announced positive developments for their respective designs. NRC Makes Progress on NuScale Design Review Portland, Oregon-based NuScale said on July 22 that the U.S. Nuclear Regulatory Commission (NRC) completed the second and third phases of its SMR […]

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GE Is Speeding Massive Offshore Wind Turbine to Market

July 23, 2019 admin block island, Business, cvow, ge renewable energy, haliade-x, International, mhi vestas, nacelle, netherlands, news, offshore wind, prototype, Renewables, Research and Development, siemens gamesa, Technology, Wind

Credit to Author: Sonal Patel| Date: Tue, 23 Jul 2019 13:40:06 +0000

GE Renewable Energy’s mammoth offshore wind 12-MW Haliade-X turbine is on track for an accelerated commercial launch in 2021, the company said as it unveiled the turbine’s first manufactured components on July 22. Haliade-X features a 220-meter (m) rotor and a 107-m blade designed by GE subsidiary LM Wind Power. The turbine design also includes […]

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