Our Titan 130 is online and making power. Most of the power is for the plant, and the rest is sold to the grid. The cogen heat exchanger will be online in the next week or so. The heat is used for different process in the plant site.
Well solar turbine generation exists, thousands of mirrors are arranged in a way to reflect the sun into a central point, this central point is that boiler which boils water into steam to run the turbines.
I loved working on the Solar Saturn turbines when I was in the Coast Guard. We used them as emergency generators on the Secretary and Hero class High Endurance Cutter (378's). Very dependable and a lot faster to pick up the load than a diesel genset.
The generator is on the suck side? I don't think I've ever seen that. Is it a single shaft then? That'd definitely make more sense for the exhaust end, no worrying about hot gas vs shaft seals.
Correct, single shaft engine with generator is on the compressor inlet side and there reduction gearbox between the compressor inlet and drive side of the generator.
Single shaft makes sense in a turbine that runs at constant speed and steady load, and this one is a single shaft design. But there are engines with two shafts that drive from the cold end. The shafts are concentric. Aircraft turbo fan engines all run that way, and many helicopter engines.
I have worked on many solar turbines, and it varies depending on how the customer configures the package, I have seen the driven unit on the inlet and exhaust side.
@@trevork4066 man what kinda house do you live in that consumes a whole megawatt? My plant is rated right around 18Mw, we put about 16 to the grid and the stated figure is that we can power somewhere around 11,000-12,000 average homes.
