Browsing Tag March/April 2017

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  Turbo Speak

  STANDARDIZATION, DIGITIZATION, LNG AND NEW GAS TURBINES By Drew Robb Digitization was the hot topic in our last issue. And it continues to grab the headlines. It dominated ...

  On March 19, 2017 / By Drew Robb
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  LNG, NEW TURBINES AND DIGITIZATION

  THE GE OIL & GAS ANNUAL MEETING SEES A REVIVAL OF THE LNG MARKET, THE LAUNCH OF TWO NEW GAS TURBINES AND THE GROWING INFLUENCE OF DIGITIZATION By ...

  On March 19, 2017 / By Drew Robb
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  ONE TEST IS WORTH 1,000 EXPERT OPINIONS

  FUNCTIONAL TESTING OF GE GAS TURBINES MUST BE DONE AFTER MODIFICATIONS By David Lucier   Figure 1: Simulating GT start-up using the GE Speedtronic Calibrator. Suppose you are ...

  On March 19, 2017 / By TMI Staff & Contributors
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  ELECTRIC DRIVES

  HIGH-SPEED ELECTRIC MOTORS DRIVING GAS COMPRESSION By Paul Blaiklock Caption: High-speed synchronous motor used for driving a centrifugal compressor in a pipeline compressor station, one of forty-three such ...

  On March 19, 2017 / By TMI Staff & Contributors
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  CLAMPED SHAFT-END CONNECTIONS

  AN ALTERNATIVE TO TRADITIONAL INTERFERENCE FIT HUB, KEYED HUB, THREADED SHAFT OR OTHER SHAFT-END CONNECTIONS By PAT MCCORMACK Traditional shaft-end connections are tapered shafts that use an interference ...

  On March 19, 2017 / By TMI Staff & Contributors
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  Centrifugal Compressors

  BRIDGING THE DIVIDE BETWEEN STANDARD AND CUSTOMIZED MANUFACTURE OF CENTRIFUGAL COMPRESSORS By Daniel Potter Figure 1: The MSG LMAC centrifugal compressor is used in air separation. The red ...

  On March 19, 2017 / By TMI Staff & Contributors
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  SUPERCHARGED GAS TURBINE POWER PLANT

  LESS EXPENSIVE TO MANUFACTURE AND OPERATE THAN A COMBINED CYCLE PLANT By LEE S. LANGSTON The comparatively recent development and deployment of natural gas fueled combined cycle gas ...

  On March 19, 2017 / By TMI Staff & Contributors
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  TWO NEW GAS TURBINES FOR OIL & GAS

  GE OIL & GAS CHOSE ITS ANNUAL MEETING TO ANNOUNCE ITS LATEST TURBOMACHINERY OFFERINGS, THE NOVALT12 AND THE LM9000 By Drew Robb NovaLT12 New gas turbines are a ...

  On March 18, 2017 / By Drew Robb
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  CYCLING AN LM6000 AT A POWER PLANT IN NORTH POLE, ALASKA

  CYCLING, LOAD FOLLOWING AND RENEWABLE FOLLOWING ARE NOT THE SAME By MARK AXFORD LM6000 gas turbine (GT) genset is in service at the North Pole power station in ...

  On March 18, 2017 / By Mark Axford
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  New Products

  Fuel nozzles Sulzer has solved the primary fuel nozzle leak problem on GE 6B DLN and 7EA DLN primary fuel nozzles, reducing to zero previously tolerable minor leaks ...

  On March 18, 2017 / By TMI Staff & Contributors