The POWER Interview: What Drove the Gas Turbine Technology Leap at GE Over the Past 70 Years
Credit to Author: Aaron Larson| Date: Tue, 30 Jul 2019 13:34:12 +0000
On July 29, 1949, at 2:15 p.m., General Electric’s (GE’s) first gas turbine at the Belle Isle Station in Oklahoma City began delivering power to Oklahoma Gas and Electric Co.’s distribution system. The 3.5-MW GE Frame 3 machine reportedly had an efficiency of about 17%. Since the Belle Isle machine (Figure 1) started up seventy […]
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