Allied - Gas Turbines for Distributed Generation
Gas turbines (or combustion turbines) are available in a range of sizes. Gas turbines are used mainly above 1 MW, though smaller units – microturbines – are produced in sizes less than 200 kW. Gas turbines can operate in different cycle configurations, including:
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Gas turbines can be classified into four different categories:
- Heavy Duty (frame type)
- Aeroderivatives
- Industrial
- Microturbines
Microturbines...Where Smaller Can Be Better
One of the axioms of the Industrial Age was growth in the size of machinery. Small millstream-powered machinery gave way to larger -- even massive -- and more powerful machines.
Not surprisingly, one of the axioms of the Information Age is a sharp reversal of that trend. Even while machines of all types are becoming more powerful and useful, they are becoming smaller and smaller.
Today's telephones, calculators and computers are a lot smaller and more powerful than their predecessors of 50 years ago. Today, even some electricity generators have followed the trend to smaller and more useful.
Called microturbines, they are small, high-speed generator power plants that include the turbine, compressor, generator, all of which are on a single shaft as well as the power electronics to deliver the power to the grid. Microturbines have only one moving part, use air bearings and need no lubricating oil.
These small power plants could operate on natural gas, diesel, gasoline or other similar high-energy, fossil fuel.
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