Improving gas turbine reliability
Plant Engineer looks at the options for overhaul, repair and reliability improvement for the popular 501F gas turbine
Near zero emissions
With the obvious exception of the global economic crisis and its insidious infection now of the ?real economy', recent months, and indeed years, have seen no greater issue than climate change. Governments and organisations around the world have pledged radical reductions in emissions - most recently with Gordon Brown's insisting that the UK's target for CO2 reduction must be 80% by 2050. In short, interest in energy efficiency, alternative generation and carbon capture has never been greater.
Downsizing CHP
Combined heat and power has come a very long way since Battersea Power Station. Dr Tom Shelley looks at some of the advances and offers engineering advice