The rumble is the engine getting the fire lit and accelerating to its running RPM. In this type of installation, they go from dead to full RPM and when the generator is energized the governor adds more fuel to maintain full RPM.
Former Boeing Everett... gotta love the sound of a turbine starting up. Loved being on the flight line where you can hear the screaming whine of giant Turbofan and the smell of Jet Fuel. Both are intoxicating.
I worked as a marshaller for the Maiquetía Airport in 2013 and while the heat was unbearably strong, the sound of jet engines and the smell of jet fuel kept me going, especially at night. Miss that job so much
The ferry's travelling between Hong Kong and Macau were jet powered. It always sounded like you were about to take off when they started up. They were Hydorfoils so I suppose we did sought of fly.
They also have gas turbine catamarans. Easy to differentiate them when you focus on their exhaust stack. The turbines are large, the diesels have small pipes, but still large enough for the engine.
Most turbine generators are 3600 rpm units. They have a high ratio gear drive that slows the drive down from the power turbine shaft speed anywhere from 10,000 to 20,000 rpm to 3600 for the generator. Gas turbines are not very efficient machines. They use almost as much fuel at no load as they do at full load. They only have marginally good efficiency when operated above 80% load.
Fasten seat belts. Tray tables and seats to be in the upright position for take off. This thing would be pretty much useless if it wasn't for the guys in the substation. Thanks for your hard work.
I bet it screams loudly under full electrical load. Especially big ones which is just crazy to hear even within a few miles of a state natural gas jet power plant that has to serve almost full load in general emergency. (We have a few around here in Montana, powered by either coal gas or natural gas, probably with diesel fuel as a backup fuel, and yes they are still pretty massive as they have to serve a portion of power grids in the entire state.)
Where are these used? It was my understanding that turbine engines are not fuel efficient to steam driven turbines running off coal, oil or gas. Just curious of the purpose and the location.
You are correct, not efficient. They are used for black starts in the event of a total system failure and for peak loads when power is needed. The big advantage of these besides black start is that they are up to full load within minutes. When the demand is high, the cost of power goes up significantly making it so they are still profitable to run.
The current generation is only slightly less efficient than a natural gas steam plant when run as a single cycle (turbine spins generator, exhaust is dumped skyward). Coal plants are now less efficient than gas turbines because significant energy gets used by the emissions scrubbers. The efficiency king, though, is a gas turbine run in a combined cycle (gas turbine spins generator, exhaust is run through a boiler to generate steam, which spins a second turbine, then the much cooler exhaust is dumped skyward).
@@stevelacker358 I've been an industrial machinery/oil field tech for my whole life, pretty much. I'm always interested in how equipment I am unfamiliar with is designed and works, thanks for the information, it is fun to learn about the power generation field outside of small stand by diesel units like I have worked on.
I think, but I am not sure, that it goes to the power plant operators station which is manned 24/7 and its done from there. But I've never dealt with bringing it online, I maintain the s/s next to it.
@@reusefull I think newer ones the engine controls are automatic, a computer or PLC controls the startup and grid connection. Monitored remotely sure, but most of the control is automatic.
I haven't personally synced that one, but you get the generator speed just right until the sync scope is moving slowly and time closing the breaker in for when the scope hand is at noon. (The hand moves in a circle and the generator is in sync with the grid when the hand is at noon)
@@reusefull Thank-you. I've synced DC generators from control panels that dated back to the days of brass and glass meters. Thomas Edison stuff. If you stood me in front of that panel today I don't think that I could start one. Interesting content.
@Michael Fealey we had a lot of old stuff in the hydros, but I'm not involved with them anymore. It's always pretty funny when you're working with stuff that looks like it should be in a museum, but it's actually keeping the lights on for people. 😂
I've synched gas turbine alternator packages online many times, in auto and manual. In that video it sounded like it hadnt got up to sync speed as due to change of pitch it sounded like it was still accelerating . When the speed stabilises at sync speed the auto sync will adjust the field excitation to match (bus) volts and the fuel governor will match speed/frequency. best practice is to close the breaker as the speed is just creeping up to sync speed. Once the breaker is closed the fuel control will manage the load & frequency.
It's 20-24 megawatts running full load. I used 22.5MW to come up with the 30,000 hp... I know that's not how they're rated, but I figured it was a number people could relate to more.
This one is used as a black start/peaking generator. Blackstart: It's at a powerplant, if the powerplant goes down and there's no power from the grid, this can start with no outside power and provide enough power for the powerplant to start running. This is an extremely rare scenario. Peaking: when the demand for power is really high and / or a powerplant somewhere else on the system is down, these will run to make sure that there is enough power on the grid.
This one is at a power plant, not too near houses. I have another video of a jet generator that starts up with a giant detroit diesel (very very loud) and it's a lot closer to houses... that would be a terrible place every Wednesday morning when it test runs...
@@reusefull lol! while a roaring diesel is bad enuff, the thought of a screaming turbine engine at 10,000 rpm hour after hour is insane. I flew in the cargo bay of c 141 for nine hour stretch and my eyes were real red after that
@@BjarneLinetsky that sounds pretty intense... this is the other generator... it's my favorite, but I'm glad I don't live there!! ruclips.net/video/7yVbU3pm1K8/видео.htmlsi=Mu_z8j93oD1e8T_W
gnarly. It couldn't be very efficient though could it? I thought jets were powerful for their size but not very efficient. It could probably be made to run on anything but would suck up an awful lot of it... or so I'd imagine. The ability to burn whatever you've got is quite an advantage though... Okay I'm sold. The sound the thing makes is absolutely wonderful. peace.
Its not correct to call this a "jet." Its a gas turbine engine, where a shaft transfers mechanical power to a generator. A "jet" engine uses the turbine to accelerate air and produce thrust. Very different process, and more efficient modern "jet" engines are actually turbo-fan engines, where a shaft (again) mechanically transfers energy to a ducted fan to produce thrust more effieicntly than just using the jet's exhaust directly, as the earliest types of jet engines did. Back to gas turbine generators- there are different types here as well. This appears to be a single cycle engine where the shaft turns the generator, and the gas turbine's exhaust is simply vented to the air, just like a diesel engine's exhaust would be. This type is about as efficient as a diesel generator... very roughly speaking, about 40% or less of the energy of the fuel burned actually becomes electricity. These are typically used for either emergency backup power, or for "peaking" on the grid (turned on at peak demand hours only) because they can be started and stopped in minutes, rather than hours it takes to start a steam plant. There is another type, a combined-cycle generator, where the gas turbine's output shaft spins one generator as above, but instead of being vented the exhaust boils water to steam which then spins another generator. By recovering that exhaust heat, the efficiency is pushed far, far higher. There is yet a third configuration, often used on large factory or university campuses, or in the core of large cities, where the leftover heat still in the exhaust after boiling water for the second generator is used to heat water for buildings (both to heat the interior, and for domestic hot water). In that type of gas turbine powered combined-cycle generation plant, close to 90% of the energy in the fuel ultimately gets put to some useful purpose.
Thanks for the details! kimmer6 has a nice write up as well if you search the comments. This old dinosaur is just for emergencies and peaking, definitely not the picture of efficiency!!
@@stevelacker358 far out. 90% is worthy of a big blue ribbon... some engineers knew what side of their bread had butter on it. Whatever that means... I've never really been sure actually. Thanks, man. I love the expert information.
We use them for 2 main reasons, neither have to do with efficiency 🤣. When demand peaks and or normal generation plants fail, these type units can be up to full power in minutes... a huge advantage in an emergency scramble to get power on the grid. The other reason is they don't need an outside source to start, so in the event of a total grid failure... black start, these will fire up first and the power they generate will be able provide power to fire up the big plants. 👍
First I thought, ya, use good speakers? Most recordings, especially from a cell phone, suck hard. I was kinda surprised here that my sub woofer actually did something! I heard the low rumble and I felt my floor vibrate! Not bad, BUT, the right channel was very soft/weak sounding.
I have old Mach 3 stereo speakers the ones Tandy used to make and they have 15" woofers but I don't push them too hard as they need the foam surround re-done. still it sounds great, better than little computer system speakers.
@@reusefull I think the fuel burn is in pounds per hour, if it was gallons, it would suck a tank truck dry in 3-4 hours, jet fuel is 6.8 pounds per gallon so easy math would be to divide the PPH by 2 (1-1.25k) and add that to the 2-2.5 (3-3.75k) knock off the last zero give you 300-375 gallons per hour fuel burn, makes a 8-10k gallon tank last much longer. Sorry for the long-winded explanation.
I don't fuel it, so I don't know for sure, but I was told it uses around 100 gallons per hour per Megawatt... so running at full load (2200 gallons per hour) the 80,000 gallons of fuel will not last it 2 full days. I was told one of those test runs which goes about 20 minutes total uses 4-500 gallons, so that info is what I'm basing it on. I do know that they are very very inefficient to run compared to a steam plant, but they start fast and that's the big advantage.
@@5695q lb/hr is used in the aviation industry, where weight is very very important. Ground based units will always be GPM/GPH. This plant, under full operating load will burn 2500 GPH. They are very thirsty, very inefficient machines. All in the name of brute power.
Looks like a single TurboPack Pratt & Whitney combustion turbine....about 25 MW if the engine is a -9....or 21 MW if the engine is a -8...winter rating that is.....
I've never been inside that one, so if you recognize it, then that's probably the case. Could be either, I know they make a little over 20MW. The ones we have that I've been inside are GE.
I've worked in many power plants when I was younger in my 20s all through till about 32 and I worked on coal gas and wood chip powered boiler stations power plants the gas power plants those use a gas powered jet turbine just like in this video except these jet turbines are about 40 ft long and 15 to 20 ft wide and tall just one round blade system is the equivalent almost as wide as your normal two bedroom small house and the building that houses the jet turbine has as big as a normal three bedroom rancher what I did was I was the one who went in there with a hand welder and I welded rods all around exterior of the turbine plates on the outside of the shell and put all the insulation pads around the whole thing cuz it's like special insulation padding big pads like 4 to 8 ft long that wrap these turbines the keeps the heat in them I also ripped the roof off a couple of the buildings for the millwright they take the engines apart once a year to rebuild the blades I also was a scaffold builder I've built all the scaffolding on a cruise many times around there one of the cool jobs that the Lord blessed me with I worked in a county called Brunswick county this is another job had the same ones it was three separate power plants that had to jet motors generated by steam by gas boiler and the steam leftover from the jet boilers all three power plants tied into one big pipe like 5 ft to 10 ft round and after that this big pipe would run about a two football fields from all three power plants into one building the size of Walmart and inside there was like your regular coal fire plant generator turbine to make power inside that that's where the leftover gas goes I mean I'm sorry leftover steam and then it would go through that final turbine to produce power that generator and then it will go through a exhaust tube below the deck and that building and then feed back up to a thing called The fan house and the fan house was a building where this leftover steam was pumped about 200 ft off the ground and the building was the size of about two or three Walmart buildings and it looked like radiators we're 30 ft round fans and there was about 75 to 80 35 ft round fans in these special coil buildings in the steam would be pumped through coils while the fans suck there from the bottom of this thing and cool it off and made it back into condensation was turned it back into water and pumped it back into the original boilers in the very beginning stage going to recycle the whole water within the system it was a keen idea except there's one thing you could find wood and there's plenty of coal but when the gas runs out you're going to be cold if you get what I'm saying trust in Jesus
@@litz13 The 2500 is a pretty small turbine when you're talking power generation. You can easily get 32MW from them. If you want to see a big boy, go look at the GE 9HA.02, it's good for 571MW. There are many gas turbines larger than the 2500's
@@Melanie16040 well sure, but they aren't based on aircraft engines! The 2500 is a CF6 without the huge main fan (and its bypass air) that drives thrust, leaving just the central core to spin things.
@@litz13 Indeed. Aeroderivative models are great for avoiding having to design a new product. But there are better options for industrial settings, especially when you need large quantities of power. You can get something that was designed from day one for an industrial setting instead of converted from an aircraft unit.
@@BigKandRtv imagine just taking the nozzle from a gasoline filling pump and aiming it away from you and holding the handle down the whole way - and just letting it go full blast... that's probably a bit lower than 33 GPM but in the same general magnitude so maybe 2 or 3 of those going at the same time to get to 33 GPM. That's a lot of fuel since you never let the handle go... :D
That’s the sound of solar and wind turbine generators running on a cloudy, still day. EDIT: Why are all the environmentalists humorless? So, so sensitive…
@@BigKandRtv Did you read the original opinion, dislike it, the go on the attack? I have no problem with that, but *you* sound like a hypocrite. I'm just a mirror, bud. What you see is a reflection of yourself.
The rumble is the engine getting the fire lit and accelerating to its running RPM. In this type of installation, they go from dead to full RPM and when the generator is energized the governor adds more fuel to maintain full RPM.
Thanks for the info👍
yes, always a bit rumbly until about 90% speed when the bleed valves and guide vanes have gone to full run position.
@@reusefull
I like that you don't spend your time arguing with people lol it saves so much time
@@i-love-comountains3850 Why would they argue? 5695q is correct. That initial rumble is what you get during start when fuel is added and lights off.
@@Melanie16040
I didn't say anything one way or the other. All I said was I appreciated Reusefull's response.
Former Boeing Everett... gotta love the sound of a turbine starting up. Loved being on the flight line where you can hear the screaming whine of giant Turbofan and the smell of Jet Fuel. Both are intoxicating.
I worked as a marshaller for the Maiquetía Airport in 2013 and while the heat was unbearably strong, the sound of jet engines and the smell of jet fuel kept me going, especially at night. Miss that job so much
I didn't need a extra speaker. Dog ran off just fine with the phone speaker.
The ferry's travelling between Hong Kong and Macau were jet powered. It always sounded like you were about to take off when they started up. They were Hydorfoils so I suppose we did sought of fly.
Boeing JetFoils
Unfortunately I guess I was always in the weasly diesel-powered ones... of course I only went to Zhuhai and back, not Macau...
They also have gas turbine catamarans.
Easy to differentiate them when you focus on their exhaust stack. The turbines are large, the diesels have small pipes, but still large enough for the engine.
Definitely not an 1800 rpm unit. Sounds like it's very economical to operate. My neighbors would love it!
Most turbine generators are 3600 rpm units. They have a high ratio gear drive that slows the drive down from the power turbine shaft speed anywhere from 10,000 to 20,000 rpm to 3600 for the generator.
Gas turbines are not very efficient machines. They use almost as much fuel at no load as they do at full load. They only have marginally good efficiency when operated above 80% load.
Takes my back to when we used huffers to start 707s.
When we talk about gas turbine engines all i could imagine is that the whole facility would fly off
Fasten seat belts. Tray tables and seats to be in the upright position for take off. This thing would be pretty much useless if it wasn't for the guys in the substation. Thanks for your hard work.
Thank you!!
I suspect that ANY generator is pretty useless without operators!
I bet it screams loudly under full electrical load. Especially big ones which is just crazy to hear even within a few miles of a state natural gas jet power plant that has to serve almost full load in general emergency. (We have a few around here in Montana, powered by either coal gas or natural gas, probably with diesel fuel as a backup fuel, and yes they are still pretty massive as they have to serve a portion of power grids in the entire state.)
Sounds like the airco unit of my neighbors
Compressed air start is novel. A bit different to the GE plant Detroits screaming at a million decibels haha
Cool video!
Thank you! They're both cool to watch start up.
In Philadelphia, there was a building on Market Street that had several generators running occasionally with unbelievable noise coming from.
Sure is a homely beast. I think a dinosaur should sound like this, of course we know a steel one did.
This is awesome can you show us a video of the Turbine?
Where are these used? It was my understanding that turbine engines are not fuel efficient to steam driven turbines running off coal, oil or gas. Just curious of the purpose and the location.
You are correct, not efficient. They are used for black starts in the event of a total system failure and for peak loads when power is needed. The big advantage of these besides black start is that they are up to full load within minutes. When the demand is high, the cost of power goes up significantly making it so they are still profitable to run.
@@reusefull afaik turbine engines are pretty efficient if 100% loaded and run at constant power
The current generation is only slightly less efficient than a natural gas steam plant when run as a single cycle (turbine spins generator, exhaust is dumped skyward). Coal plants are now less efficient than gas turbines because significant energy gets used by the emissions scrubbers. The efficiency king, though, is a gas turbine run in a combined cycle (gas turbine spins generator, exhaust is run through a boiler to generate steam, which spins a second turbine, then the much cooler exhaust is dumped skyward).
@@stevelacker358 I've been an industrial machinery/oil field tech for my whole life, pretty much. I'm always interested in how equipment I am unfamiliar with is designed and works, thanks for the information, it is fun to learn about the power generation field outside of small stand by diesel units like I have worked on.
Beautiful!
This would fit nicely in my backyard. No power outages for me!
That rumble was the fuel ignition
Does someone have to be on site to sync to the grid or is that done automatically?
I think, but I am not sure, that it goes to the power plant operators station which is manned 24/7 and its done from there. But I've never dealt with bringing it online, I maintain the s/s next to it.
@@reusefull I think newer ones the engine controls are automatic, a computer or PLC controls the startup and grid connection. Monitored remotely sure, but most of the control is automatic.
OH THE NEIGHBORS MUST JUST LOVE HEARING THAT 📢🏡
Awesome! I do like the Detroit Diesel 12 cylinder kick better, but this is amazing! Hearing protection anyone,?
This one it's compressed air start i think
What!?
Great video!
Thank you!
Were can i get one of these motors? I need to remake the tesla cyber truck
It this turbine an lm2500? I know those are rated for 30,000hp
"I just needed to charge my phone."
If their is ever any sort of nuclear winter on this planet, this sound will become very familiar
How do they freq the generator before it goes on line?
I haven't personally synced that one, but you get the generator speed just right until the sync scope is moving slowly and time closing the breaker in for when the scope hand is at noon. (The hand moves in a circle and the generator is in sync with the grid when the hand is at noon)
@@reusefull
Thank-you. I've synced DC generators from control panels that dated back to the days of brass and glass meters. Thomas Edison stuff. If you stood me in front of that panel today I don't think that I could start one.
Interesting content.
@Michael Fealey we had a lot of old stuff in the hydros, but I'm not involved with them anymore. It's always pretty funny when you're working with stuff that looks like it should be in a museum, but it's actually keeping the lights on for people. 😂
I've synched gas turbine alternator packages online many times, in auto and manual. In that video it sounded like it hadnt got up to sync speed as due to change of pitch it sounded like it was still accelerating . When the speed stabilises at sync speed the auto sync will adjust the field excitation to match (bus) volts and the fuel governor will match speed/frequency. best practice is to close the breaker as the speed is just creeping up to sync speed. Once the breaker is closed the fuel control will manage the load & frequency.
Music to a man’s ears. Can we say woody?
LM 2500?
Way hey and up she rises....
Buy it at Home Depot or on Amazon?
How many hours at full load ? Reliability of turbine?how many thousand gallon per kilowatt hour?
Tesla semi mega chargers require one Megawatt each. So every truck stop will need one of these generators outback somewhere
😂
Startup sounds just like a GE90-115B. If the generator is rated at 65 megawatts? Its more than likely got the GE90 in it.
It's 20-24 megawatts running full load. I used 22.5MW to come up with the 30,000 hp... I know that's not how they're rated, but I figured it was a number people could relate to more.
what are these used to power?
This one is used as a black start/peaking generator.
Blackstart: It's at a powerplant, if the powerplant goes down and there's no power from the grid, this can start with no outside power and provide enough power for the powerplant to start running. This is an extremely rare scenario.
Peaking: when the demand for power is really high and / or a powerplant somewhere else on the system is down, these will run to make sure that there is enough power on the grid.
Looks like LM2500 or such?
I am so glad this is not next to my house.
This one is at a power plant, not too near houses. I have another video of a jet generator that starts up with a giant detroit diesel (very very loud) and it's a lot closer to houses... that would be a terrible place every Wednesday morning when it test runs...
@@reusefull lol! while a roaring diesel is bad enuff, the thought of a screaming turbine engine at 10,000 rpm hour after hour is insane. I flew in the cargo bay of c 141 for nine hour stretch and my eyes were real red after that
@@BjarneLinetsky that sounds pretty intense... this is the other generator... it's my favorite, but I'm glad I don't live there!! ruclips.net/video/7yVbU3pm1K8/видео.htmlsi=Mu_z8j93oD1e8T_W
That thing must be crazy expensive to run 🤔
Around 2000gal/hr at full load i think.
Less costly than reciprocating engines.
Considering how expensive it is generally to run power plants, this is actually *dirt cheap* comparatively.
All of you have no clue of what it takes to generate and distribute power.
Dream on. I don't care.
Please rise for the national anthem of river works Lynn/revere Massachusetts
GEAE👍
gnarly.
It couldn't be very efficient though could it? I thought jets were powerful for their size but not very efficient. It could probably be made to run on anything but would suck up an awful lot of it... or so I'd imagine. The ability to burn whatever you've got is quite an advantage though... Okay I'm sold.
The sound the thing makes is absolutely wonderful.
peace.
Its not correct to call this a "jet." Its a gas turbine engine, where a shaft transfers mechanical power to a generator. A "jet" engine uses the turbine to accelerate air and produce thrust. Very different process, and more efficient modern "jet" engines are actually turbo-fan engines, where a shaft (again) mechanically transfers energy to a ducted fan to produce thrust more effieicntly than just using the jet's exhaust directly, as the earliest types of jet engines did. Back to gas turbine generators- there are different types here as well. This appears to be a single cycle engine where the shaft turns the generator, and the gas turbine's exhaust is simply vented to the air, just like a diesel engine's exhaust would be. This type is about as efficient as a diesel generator... very roughly speaking, about 40% or less of the energy of the fuel burned actually becomes electricity. These are typically used for either emergency backup power, or for "peaking" on the grid (turned on at peak demand hours only) because they can be started and stopped in minutes, rather than hours it takes to start a steam plant. There is another type, a combined-cycle generator, where the gas turbine's output shaft spins one generator as above, but instead of being vented the exhaust boils water to steam which then spins another generator. By recovering that exhaust heat, the efficiency is pushed far, far higher. There is yet a third configuration, often used on large factory or university campuses, or in the core of large cities, where the leftover heat still in the exhaust after boiling water for the second generator is used to heat water for buildings (both to heat the interior, and for domestic hot water). In that type of gas turbine powered combined-cycle generation plant, close to 90% of the energy in the fuel ultimately gets put to some useful purpose.
Thanks for the details! kimmer6 has a nice write up as well if you search the comments. This old dinosaur is just for emergencies and peaking, definitely not the picture of efficiency!!
@@stevelacker358 far out. 90% is worthy of a big blue ribbon... some engineers knew what side of their bread had butter on it. Whatever that means... I've never really been sure actually.
Thanks, man. I love the expert information.
@@reusefull Cool...
We use them for 2 main reasons, neither have to do with efficiency 🤣. When demand peaks and or normal generation plants fail, these type units can be up to full power in minutes... a huge advantage in an emergency scramble to get power on the grid. The other reason is they don't need an outside source to start, so in the event of a total grid failure... black start, these will fire up first and the power they generate will be able provide power to fire up the big plants. 👍
Neighbour's house is going to complain about the noise
First I thought, ya, use good speakers? Most recordings, especially from a cell phone, suck hard. I was kinda surprised here that my sub woofer actually did something! I heard the low rumble and I felt my floor vibrate! Not bad, BUT, the right channel was very soft/weak sounding.
Yeah, it's not high fidelity, but you get the rumble pretty good. My device now has a decent microphone, but that was a couple devices back👍
I have old Mach 3 stereo speakers the ones Tandy used to make and they have 15" woofers but I don't push them too hard as they need the foam surround re-done. still it sounds great, better than little computer system speakers.
Around 20 Mva?
What engine model is this? A LM5000?
Not sure to be honest. My work is in the substation next to it mainly.
What kind of jet engine?
I'm not sure on these 2. I haven't been inside this at all. The outside looks similar to another that houses a Pratt&Whitney though.
where is this place at..so when the zombies come I can head thier..im sure it eats alot of fuel.
Where is this one located?
lost nation/north Umberland
Are they running it on Jet A or nat gas?
I believe it's Jet A. It's either that or number 2.
@@reusefull cheers man thank-you
@@papabits5721 👍
At full load that probably drinks 2-2.5k GPH.
Yup
@@reusefull I think the fuel burn is in pounds per hour, if it was gallons, it would suck a tank truck dry in 3-4 hours, jet fuel is 6.8 pounds per gallon so easy math would be to divide the PPH by 2 (1-1.25k) and add that to the 2-2.5 (3-3.75k) knock off the last zero give you 300-375 gallons per hour fuel burn, makes a 8-10k gallon tank last much longer. Sorry for the long-winded explanation.
I don't fuel it, so I don't know for sure, but I was told it uses around 100 gallons per hour per Megawatt... so running at full load (2200 gallons per hour) the 80,000 gallons of fuel will not last it 2 full days. I was told one of those test runs which goes about 20 minutes total uses 4-500 gallons, so that info is what I'm basing it on. I do know that they are very very inefficient to run compared to a steam plant, but they start fast and that's the big advantage.
If they have to run for real, the tankers are rolling for sure.
@@5695q lb/hr is used in the aviation industry, where weight is very very important. Ground based units will always be GPM/GPH. This plant, under full operating load will burn 2500 GPH. They are very thirsty, very inefficient machines. All in the name of brute power.
Mount one of those to a flatbed truck and use it to power a substation in a major disaster. 🤓
Looks like a single TurboPack Pratt & Whitney combustion turbine....about 25 MW if the engine is a -9....or 21 MW if the engine is a -8...winter rating that is.....
I've never been inside that one, so if you recognize it, then that's probably the case. Could be either, I know they make a little over 20MW. The ones we have that I've been inside are GE.
That's about 22.5 Mw.
Pretty sure it’s a gas turbine generator; works almost the same way a jet engine works.
I've worked in many power plants when I was younger in my 20s all through till about 32 and I worked on coal gas and wood chip powered boiler stations power plants the gas power plants those use a gas powered jet turbine just like in this video except these jet turbines are about 40 ft long and 15 to 20 ft wide and tall just one round blade system is the equivalent almost as wide as your normal two bedroom small house and the building that houses the jet turbine has as big as a normal three bedroom rancher what I did was I was the one who went in there with a hand welder and I welded rods all around exterior of the turbine plates on the outside of the shell and put all the insulation pads around the whole thing cuz it's like special insulation padding big pads like 4 to 8 ft long that wrap these turbines the keeps the heat in them I also ripped the roof off a couple of the buildings for the millwright they take the engines apart once a year to rebuild the blades I also was a scaffold builder I've built all the scaffolding on a cruise many times around there one of the cool jobs that the Lord blessed me with I worked in a county called Brunswick county this is another job had the same ones it was three separate power plants that had to jet motors generated by steam by gas boiler and the steam leftover from the jet boilers all three power plants tied into one big pipe like 5 ft to 10 ft round and after that this big pipe would run about a two football fields from all three power plants into one building the size of Walmart and inside there was like your regular coal fire plant generator turbine to make power inside that that's where the leftover gas goes I mean I'm sorry leftover steam and then it would go through that final turbine to produce power that generator and then it will go through a exhaust tube below the deck and that building and then feed back up to a thing called The fan house and the fan house was a building where this leftover steam was pumped about 200 ft off the ground and the building was the size of about two or three Walmart buildings and it looked like radiators we're 30 ft round fans and there was about 75 to 80 35 ft round fans in these special coil buildings in the steam would be pumped through coils while the fans suck there from the bottom of this thing and cool it off and made it back into condensation was turned it back into water and pumped it back into the original boilers in the very beginning stage going to recycle the whole water within the system it was a keen idea except there's one thing you could find wood and there's plenty of coal but when the gas runs out you're going to be cold if you get what I'm saying trust in Jesus
What kind of engine? CF-6? RB-211? Something else?
The LM 1500 is a derivative of the J79
The big boy is the 2500 which is based off the CF6, which powers 767s, DC10s, etc
@@litz13 The 2500 is a pretty small turbine when you're talking power generation. You can easily get 32MW from them. If you want to see a big boy, go look at the GE 9HA.02, it's good for 571MW. There are many gas turbines larger than the 2500's
@@Melanie16040 well sure, but they aren't based on aircraft engines! The 2500 is a CF6 without the huge main fan (and its bypass air) that drives thrust, leaving just the central core to spin things.
@@litz13 Indeed. Aeroderivative models are great for avoiding having to design a new product. But there are better options for industrial settings, especially when you need large quantities of power. You can get something that was designed from day one for an industrial setting instead of converted from an aircraft unit.
Where is this at? Very interesting btw!!
lost nation/north Umberland
@@reusefull which country? Canada? USA?
@@ethan12313 USA
Hear that for miles.
Sounds like a GTEL
and about 2000 gallons an hour at full tilt....
It's hard to visualize 33 gallons per minute.
@@BigKandRtv It's also difficult to visualize the quantity of power it's producing while consuming that.
@@BigKandRtv imagine just taking the nozzle from a gasoline filling pump and aiming it away from you and holding the handle down the whole way - and just letting it go full blast... that's probably a bit lower than 33 GPM but in the same general magnitude so maybe 2 or 3 of those going at the same time to get to 33 GPM. That's a lot of fuel since you never let the handle go... :D
I start under load every morning...
Atomic batteries to power Batman
That’s the sound of solar and wind turbine generators running on a cloudy, still day.
EDIT: Why are all the environmentalists humorless? So, so sensitive…
So…….the weather is the same across a nation?
I think this generator is more for backup, actually.
Within reason, the less it gets used, the better. (Solar panels are *quiet.)*
So don't invest in solar or wind, Bill. If you don't like it, tell your broker.
The choice between fossil fuels and renewables is the choice between eating eggs and cheese or beef and chicken.
@@brucebaxter6923 You think you can transfer electricity nationwide? Without any losses?
Can I have one in my backyard?
I already have good headphones,...use better microphone because I'm already deaf.😕🙅♂️
Next time👍
I bet it gets alot more use now with solar and wind energy
Jesus, Dale. Don't invest if you don't like it. Quit whining.
@@BigKandRtv no whining ours never ran tell wind energy. Now when the wind stops bam there in a panic to make up the M.W.
@@BigKandRtv Jesus, bigKandRtv, no need to go on the attack. Don't read the comments if you don't like opinions. Quit whining.
@@warpedweirdo Did you just read my opinion, dislike it, the go on the attack? I have no problem with that, but you sound like a hypocrite.
@@BigKandRtv Did you read the original opinion, dislike it, the go on the attack? I have no problem with that, but *you* sound like a hypocrite.
I'm just a mirror, bud. What you see is a reflection of yourself.
Remember, your EV charges because of tech like this, using 2000 gallons of fuel per hour :)