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• Gas Turbines

  Fuel cell-microturbine hybrid bags order

   Mitsubishi Hitachi Power Systems, Ltd. (MHPS) has received an order in April 2019 from Hazama Ando Corporation for Megamie, its pressurized hybrid power system combining a solid oxide ...

  On April 13, 2020 / By Kalyan
• Combined Cycle

  GE bags order for 1.4 GW combined cycles in Poland

  GE has bagged an order for the supply of two 9HA.01 gas turbines along with two STF-D650 steam turbines providing some 1.4 GW for a Polish power plant. ...

  On March 31, 2020 / By Kalyan
• Compressors

  Siemens to supply three BOG packages for Louisiana LNG facility

  Siemens has been awarded a contract to supply three boil-off compressor (BOG) packages for Venture Global’s Calcasieu Pass LNG Project. The new LNG export facility, Calcasieu Pass, is ...

  On February 22, 2020 / By Kalyan
• Gas Turbines

  In turbomachinery, GE likely a pure play gas turbine firm

  The business press has been reporting that GE’s steam turbine business is on the block. If the OEM does find an appropriate buyer it would mean the most ...

  On February 5, 2020 / By Kalyan
• Gas Turbines

  Gas turbine peakers vs batteries: The equation today

  A key application of gas turbines is as peakers especially in grids with high renewable penetration. But batteries have been gnawing away at this market segment. Today, battery ...

  On December 7, 2019 / By Kalyan
• Gas Turbines

  New mobile power plant serves Afghanistan

  Relevant Power Solutions, LLC. (RPS) of Houston, Texas has successfully commissioned the first natural gas-powered power plant to be installed in Afghanistan since the 1970s.  The 44 MW ...

  On November 17, 2019 / By Kalyan
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  ATPS INDUSTRY SUMMIT

  BIG DATA, DIGITALIZATION AND THE INDUSTRIAL INTERNET OF THINGS BY KALYAN KALYANARAMAN The biennial Asia Turbomachinery & Pump Symposium (ATPS) grew out of Texas A&M Turbomachinery Laboratories’ (TAMU) ...

  On October 16, 2019 / By Kalyan
• Auxiliaries

  Particulate contamination in rolling element bearings and their prevention

  While bearings are made of hardened steel, th’ey are surprisingly susceptible to contamination. The reason is the very high contact pressures that are present in the small contact ...

  On August 31, 2019 / By Kalyan
• Gas Turbines

  Baker Hughes bags turbomachinery contract for floating LNG plant

  Baker Hughes, a GE company, has been awarded a contract to supply turbomachinery equipment for the first phase of BP’s Greater Tortue Ahmeyim floating liquefied natural gas (FLNG) ...

  On July 8, 2019 / By Kalyan
• Energy & Conference News

  Kawasaki introduces LNG-based floating power plant

  Kawasaki Heavy Industries, Ltd. has developed an LNG floating power plant equipped with its own high-efficiency power generation equipment and that its gas engine model has obtained Approval ...

  On July 8, 2019 / By Kalyan