One of the problems with building the world's largest and most powerful gas turbine is that you need to build a test bed to match. Having invested US$1 billion in its 500,000 bhp 9HA Harriet gas turbine, GE had to fork over another US$185 million to build a full-load test bed at GE Power & Water in Greenville, South Carolina that can handle the grid-busting output of Harriet... Continue Reading Putting the world's largest and most powerful gas turbine to the test
Section: Good Thinking
Tags: Engine, GE, Testing, Turbine
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