Columbia Generating Station’s turbine system includes three low-pressure turbines and one high-pressure turbine, with a combined rotating mass of approximately 1.2 million pounds.

With nuclear power plant owners worldwide looking at extending the service life of their assets to 60, 80 years or even longer it’s clear that while the reactor itself is unlikely to change, key ...

Steam turbine and generator The 118-MW air-cooled Siemens generator runs between two steam turbine sections, with a high-pressure turbine producing 7,116 revolutions per minute (RPM) and an ...

The contract for the steam generators, destined for an unnamed French 900 MWe pressurised water reactor (PWR), was awarded jointly to a collaboration of Japan's MHI and French company Comex Nucléaire ...

Wind power in the Lower 48 states produced about 335,753 megawatt hours (MWh) on July 22, the lowest since Oct. 4, 2021, according to preliminary data from the U.S. Energy Information ...

An 11 kilovolts (kV) generator, once affordable, now costs between N700,000 and N750,000, a recent market survey by Nairametrics shows. The familiar hum of generators is growing quieter as fewer ...

Under the contract, GE Energy will replace the generator rotor windings and the moisture separator-reheaters. In addition, the two low-pressure steam turbine rotors and diaphragms must be replaced and ...

The article presents the experience of using modern software in the implementation of thermal calculations. The integral characteristics of the high-pressurized heat recovery steam generator and the ...

A low-pressure steam turbine of 33MW capacity was added to the plant in 2007 as part of the second phase of development. The third phase, commissioned in 2008, involved the installation of two more ...

As wind and solar renewable energy technologies continue to evolve and mature, fossil-fired power plants, and particularly coal-fired units, will continue to fade away. With the loss of coal-fired ...