How to Use gas turbine in a Sentence

gas turbine

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Definition of gas turbinenext
  • The reason for two islands is, simply put, due to the gas turbine exhausts.
    — Kyle Mizokami, Popular Mechanics, 6 Jan. 2021
  • Sales fell 9% in the power unit, which is mired in a market slump that’s sapping demand for gas turbines.
    — Bloomberg, Fortune, 20 Apr. 2018
  • As with the local gas turbines, the goal is to transition to 100% green hydrogen.
    — Sammy Roth, Los Angeles Times, 13 June 2024
  • Demand response can drop a load just as quickly as firing up a gas turbine to meet that load, Brown said.
    — Travis Loller, ajc, 2 July 2021
  • The credits were created by Dow’s shutdown of a gas turbine.
    — Mark Schleifstein, NOLA.com, 1 Feb. 2021
  • Profits have dropped amid high costs and flagging demand for gas turbines.
    — BostonGlobe.com, 13 Sep. 2019
  • Such robots will also be used to inspect and repair GE’s gas turbines.
    — The Economist, 30 Sep. 2017
  • David was a welder and mechanic on steam and gas turbines, and was a gifted athlete, his obituary said.
    — Liam Quinn, Peoplemag, 2 Nov. 2023
  • This eliminates the complex plumbing required to make a gas turbine work.
    — The Economist, 5 Apr. 2018
  • Earnings in the business, which mainly sells gas turbines, fell by 58% in the quarter compared with a year earlier.
    — Spencer Jakab, WSJ, 20 July 2018
  • Zunum is designing its plane as a hybrid -- battery-powered with a gas turbine as a backup.
    — CBS News, 9 June 2018
  • The Center plans to use the electricity produced by nearby wind turbines at night to compress air, and feed the air into a gas turbine during the day.
    — Molly A. Seltzer, Smithsonian, 4 Aug. 2017
  • New test cells, control room and other upgrades at the Tibbs Avenue campus will be used to test modern gas turbine engines.
    — Alexandria Burris, The Indianapolis Star, 18 Mar. 2022
  • One way to help address the problem, Ms. Pavlenko added, would be for the authorities to install gas turbine mobile power plants across the country.
    — Oleksandra Mykolyshyn, New York Times, 5 June 2024
  • The energy company, which was spun off from what is now GE Aerospace in April, raised its 2024 guidance because of gas turbines.
    — Jim Cramer, CNBC, 24 July 2024
  • The city is home to Parker’s gas turbine fuel systems division.
    — Sean McDonnell, cleveland, 29 Aug. 2022
  • With products from gas turbines to steel and aluminum affected, the spat threatens to raise costs, slow economic growth and erode oil demand.
    — Grant Smith, Houston Chronicle, 4 Apr. 2018
  • The unit houses Siemens’s gas turbine business and was long a centerpiece of the German conglomerate.
    — William Boston, WSJ, 7 May 2019
  • Case in point: At the company’s gas turbine plant in Greenville, S.C., the team found the production process had become overly complicated.
    — BostonGlobe.com, 20 Mar. 2021
  • Founder Richard Browning, powered by gas turbine engines, flew 10 or 15 feet into the air, zooming around a grassy patch of land near a convention center.
    — Pranshu Verma, Washington Post, 28 Sep. 2022
  • The case involved the transfer of gas turbines to create an independent power supply for Crimea and Sevastopol.
    — Laurence Norman, WSJ, 4 Aug. 2017
  • Siemens Energy needs the guarantees to win new large-scale contracts to build transmission networks and gas turbines.
    — Wilfried Eckl-Dorna, Fortune, 26 Oct. 2023
  • One tactic is to increase a gas turbine engine’s bypass ratio so that more air flows around the combustion chamber instead of through it.
    — Jennifer Walter, Discover Magazine, 15 Oct. 2022
  • The power-equipment unit has been a pain point for GE amid a global downturn in the market for gas turbines, and the business struggled with a 30 percent decline in third-quarter orders.
    — BostonGlobe.com, 31 Oct. 2019
  • The company’s gas turbines have seen strong demand as providers seek to address the growing energy needs of data centers.
    — Frank Holmes, Forbes, 6 Jan. 2025
  • Ukrainian and Russian tanks are also patterned on the T-72 series, and to a lesser extent, the similar (but gas turbine-powered) T-80.
    — Kyle Mizokami, Popular Mechanics, 26 Sep. 2022
  • Already, companies are using 3-D printers to produce parts for tankers and gas turbines in the locations where they are needed.
    — Susan Lund, Foreign Affairs, 16 Apr. 2018
  • Since taking the reins in late 2018, Culp has slashed debt, sold assets, and focused on turning around GE’s beleaguered gas turbine business, a major source of the company’s cash woes.
    — Ryan Beene, BostonGlobe.com, 21 Aug. 2020
  • Reuters piled on the GE narrative this morning, with a story about how overly optimistic the company was about the market for gas turbines last year, leading to the meltdown of its power unit.
    — Alan Murray, Fortune, 22 Feb. 2018
  • The end result is a proprietary hydrogen gas turbine, putting China at the top of innovative hydrogen energy design.
    — New Atlas, 27 Dec. 2024

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