An inlet air cooling (IAC) system offers one of the most cost-effective ways to improve gas turbine (GT) performance—especially during the peak hours of hot summer months. After all, GT output depends ...

There is a trend across the USA to mandate increasing amounts of energy to be derived from renewable resources. Electric utilities in California, for example, are required to have 33 percent of their ...

Operations at a Canadian gas plant found fogging units added to turbines effective in cold climates as well as hot. While this may appear to be an obvious choice for operations in the hot, dry areas ...

Back in the early 2000s, some controversy emerged about the practice of spraying large amounts of fog directly into the compressor. Some claimed that this led to blade erosion, pitting, and scaling.