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Black Start, Chapter 8: Compressor Drives for the Industrial and Gas Pipeline Industry

Published on July 2, 2011 By dlucier

  In the 1950s, General Electric designed, constructed and installed hundreds of 2-shaft gas turbines.  The units had two, mechanically-independent turbine stages.  The high-pressure (HP) turbine powered the turbine’s own 15-stage, axial-flow compressor.  The low-pressure (LP) turbine drove another manufacturer’s load compressor (Cooper-Bessemer, Nouvo Pignone, Dresser).  These turbines were used primarily in the gas pipeline [...]