AGTSR Industrial Project Partners
There are ten industrial turbine developers participating in the project. Each company contributes $25,000 (non-voting $7,500) a year to the program.
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EPRI (non-voting)
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General Electric Power
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Honeywell Engine Systems
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Parker Hannifin (non-voting)
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Pratt & Whitney
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Rolls-Royce Allison
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Solar Turbines
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Southern Company Services (non-voting)
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Siemens Westinghouse
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Woodward FST (non-voting)
Taking the Next Step
The ATS Program by any mea-sure is a resounding success. Much of the technology developed under the Program is already being incor-porated into existing products and two 400-MWe ATS units are poised to enter commercial service. Revo-lutionary goals set in the early 1990s have been met or surpassed. This accomplishment, while proving the skeptics wrong, further substanti-ated the tremendous potential inher-ent in mobilizing the nation’s best talents to achieve difficult strategic objectives.
Another related challenge awaits. Gas turbines are being called upon to meet other strategically important market needs. Utility restructuring, increasingly stringent environmen-tal regulations, and a growing de-mand for peaking power, intermedi-ate duty, and distributed generation are combining to establish the need for a next generation of turbine sys-tems. The market is quite large and the payoff in environmental and cost-of-electricity benefits are great through improvements in efficiency and reduction of emissions levels, particularly with the 50-year re-placement cycle. But competitive forces embodied in utility restruc-turing that are driving this market need are also making it difficult for the power industry to invest in high risk research and development.
The time is right for a Next Gen-eration Turbine Program that again mobilizes the nation’s best talents, but for a different set of needs. In-termediate sized flexible turbine systems will be required to operate effectively over a wide range of duty cycles, with a variety of fuels, while achieving 15 percent efficiency and cost-of-electricity improvements. To achieve greater than 70 percent efficiency, the challenge of devel-oping Turbine/Fuel Cell Hybrids, a whole new cycle, will have to be undertaken. These leapfrog perfor-mance goals are made possible by the technological advances achieved under the ATS Program, coupled with the experience gained in forg-ing private-public partnerships with industry, academia, and the national laboratories.
Next Generation Turbine Program
The Department of Energy has launched the Next Generation Turbine (NGT) Program in response to needs identified in market and public benefit analyses and workshops structured to obtain stakeholder input. 中国航空网 www.aero.cn 航空翻译 www.aviation.cn 本文链接地址：Advanced Turbine Systems 先进的涡轮系统(18)
