Abstract
Summarizing the challenges facing the steam turbine industry, one may state: There will be sharp world-wide competition for orders available from open-market countries; efficiency, dependability, price and financing will be the decisive factors. An important shift is taking place from large nuclear and fossil blocks toward smaller units, especially combined-cycle plants. Cogeneration may gain (indeed, should urgently gain) increased importance. Life extension, repowering and retrofitting of obsolete plants will continue to be an important business. Fuel price developments, legislative regulation and deregulation and environmental constraints will continue to cause severe uncertainties and differences between local markets. The future of nuclear energy is uncertain. If safety is maintained, environmental concerns against burning fossil fuels may give new impulses to nuclear plant construction. Non-conventional plants, especially those using inexhaustible energy sources like solar or geothermal heat, will enter the picture wherever conditions are economically favourable. The future of coal looks bright in terms of environmental acceptability, except if dumping CO{sub 2} into the atmosphere is internationally accepted to be a serious problem. New materials, analysis tools and electronic equipment will lead to more sophisticated designs which will keep the steam turbine on high technological level. Extensive use of information technology and controls
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Gyarmathy, G
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- Swiss Federal Inst. of Technology, Inst. of Energy Technology, Zurich (CH)
Citation Formats
Gyarmathy, G.
Innovation and tradition in steam turbine engineering.
Switzerland: N. p.,
1989.
Web.
Gyarmathy, G.
Innovation and tradition in steam turbine engineering.
Switzerland.
Gyarmathy, G.
1989.
"Innovation and tradition in steam turbine engineering."
Switzerland.
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title = {Innovation and tradition in steam turbine engineering}
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abstractNote = {Summarizing the challenges facing the steam turbine industry, one may state: There will be sharp world-wide competition for orders available from open-market countries; efficiency, dependability, price and financing will be the decisive factors. An important shift is taking place from large nuclear and fossil blocks toward smaller units, especially combined-cycle plants. Cogeneration may gain (indeed, should urgently gain) increased importance. Life extension, repowering and retrofitting of obsolete plants will continue to be an important business. Fuel price developments, legislative regulation and deregulation and environmental constraints will continue to cause severe uncertainties and differences between local markets. The future of nuclear energy is uncertain. If safety is maintained, environmental concerns against burning fossil fuels may give new impulses to nuclear plant construction. Non-conventional plants, especially those using inexhaustible energy sources like solar or geothermal heat, will enter the picture wherever conditions are economically favourable. The future of coal looks bright in terms of environmental acceptability, except if dumping CO{sub 2} into the atmosphere is internationally accepted to be a serious problem. New materials, analysis tools and electronic equipment will lead to more sophisticated designs which will keep the steam turbine on high technological level. Extensive use of information technology and controls will lead to highly reliable and `intelligent` machines. The interaction of the turbine and its components with the power plant as a whole and their safety will increasingly require the analysis of complex systems under conditions of normal and abnormal operating modes. (author) 22 figs., 39 refs.}
place = {Switzerland}
year = {1989}
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title = {Innovation and tradition in steam turbine engineering}
author = {Gyarmathy, G}
abstractNote = {Summarizing the challenges facing the steam turbine industry, one may state: There will be sharp world-wide competition for orders available from open-market countries; efficiency, dependability, price and financing will be the decisive factors. An important shift is taking place from large nuclear and fossil blocks toward smaller units, especially combined-cycle plants. Cogeneration may gain (indeed, should urgently gain) increased importance. Life extension, repowering and retrofitting of obsolete plants will continue to be an important business. Fuel price developments, legislative regulation and deregulation and environmental constraints will continue to cause severe uncertainties and differences between local markets. The future of nuclear energy is uncertain. If safety is maintained, environmental concerns against burning fossil fuels may give new impulses to nuclear plant construction. Non-conventional plants, especially those using inexhaustible energy sources like solar or geothermal heat, will enter the picture wherever conditions are economically favourable. The future of coal looks bright in terms of environmental acceptability, except if dumping CO{sub 2} into the atmosphere is internationally accepted to be a serious problem. New materials, analysis tools and electronic equipment will lead to more sophisticated designs which will keep the steam turbine on high technological level. Extensive use of information technology and controls will lead to highly reliable and `intelligent` machines. The interaction of the turbine and its components with the power plant as a whole and their safety will increasingly require the analysis of complex systems under conditions of normal and abnormal operating modes. (author) 22 figs., 39 refs.}
place = {Switzerland}
year = {1989}
month = {Dec}
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