New Atlas

Putting the world's largest and most powerful gas turbine to the test

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 ...
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

Managing Minimum Load

Reducing the minimum load at which a steam turbine can reliably operate is one way to increase revenue for marginal base-loaded units during periods of low electrical demand. For this reason, it is ...
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, ...
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 ...