New Heat Capture Technology for Gas Turbines

With the average industrial turbine operating at only about one third efficiency, a new GE technology can come close to doubling that.

Clay Dillow at Fast Company.com reports:

"General Electric has devised a way to generate energy from a unique kind of waste: the excess heat from its own gas turbines. An innovative system based on a process understood for decades but previously too expensive to implement can capture waste heat from any industrial gas turbine and return it to the energy cycle without any additional emissions or water consumption.
The Department of Energy recently granted GE and Idaho National Laboratory $2 million to further develop the technology, which could potentially increase the efficiency of industrial engines--which often run at only 35% efficiency--by 20% to 40%." See full article.