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…10-15MW turbines, especially offshore, is almost always associated with PMSG turbines. Why do wind turbines use Rare Earth magnets? The short answer is that Rare Earth magnets have greater magnetic…
…efficiency of a wood-fired power plant is 34%. Gas turbines. We have also developed a gas-turbine variant of the model, reflecting the energy economics of the Brayton cycle from first…
…Yaw misalignment is a challenge in the wind industry, denoting the variation of a wind turbine’s blades from their optimal orientation facing directly into the wind. It reduces turbines’ productivity,…
…What compressor turbines are used in LNG plants? First generation plants used steam turbines. Second generation plants used industrial gas turbines. Recent plants use aero-derivative turbines, which have smaller footprints,…
…model has power rising from c40% to c50% of the US gas market by 2030, compensated by lower use in residential heat. https://thundersaidenergy.com/downloads/us-co2-and-methane-intensity-by-basin https://thundersaidenergy.com/downloads/gas-gathering-how-much-co2-and-methane https://thundersaidenergy.com/downloads/gas-pipelines-how-much-energy-co2-and-methane-leaks https://thundersaidenergy.com/downloads/gas-industry-co2-per-barrel https://thundersaidenergy.com/downloads/methane-leaks-from-downstream-gas-distribution https://thundersaidenergy.com/downloads/methane-slip-how-much-gas-evades-combustion https://thundersaidenergy.com/2019/12/15/global-gas-catch-methane-if-you-can https://thundersaidenergy.com/downloads/decarbonization-of-the-united-states-with-a-co2-price…
…and power-electronics; and less gas, until gas prices normalized. Self-defeatingly, we would also expect less short-term decarbonization via coal-to-gas switching. Across our research we have modelled over 150 different technologies…
…offshore wind turbines. Could large wind turbines shift to using two blades? Another intriguing observation from the physics is the possibility of two-blade turbines, as an adaptation strategy that is…
…of gas averaged $8.2/mcf, which translates into 2.7c/kWh-th. Thus the premium for natural gas was around 1.5c/kWh-th. Directly substituting coal fuel for gas fuel therefore incurred a cost of $80/ton…
…by absorbing cheap renewables and running the gas turbines less frequently? Returning to our ethane cracker example above, we estimate that each ton of ethane requires 24mcf of gas (around…
…combined cycle gas plants average 57% efficiencies, and we are particularly excited about emerging gas-fired CHP systems that can reach 80-90% total thermal efficiencies (note below). https://thundersaidenergy.com/2021/07/01/gas-turbines-what-market-size-in-energy-transition/ (3) What about…