Babcock & Wilcox (B&W) (NYSE: BW) announced today that it has selected Siemens Energy to provide steam turbine generator sets for B&W's groundbreaking project to deliver one gigawatt of power for an ...

Steam gets scary in many ways at very high temperatures, and a Rankine cycle isn't all that efficient (although can be (and generally is) improved with "reheat" cycles ... which are needed in the ...

In early January 2026, Babcock & Wilcox announced it had selected Siemens Energy to supply steam turbine generator sets for ...

Steam turbine work on the international stage can have its challenges, but also its successes. Mechanical Dynamics & Analysis (MD&A) was contracted to inspect, analyze, and then straighten a Toshiba® ...

16 September 2009 – Hitachi and Sumitomo Corporation have been awarded a 30bn yen ($300m) contract for two steam turbine generators for Egypt’s first supercritical thermal power plant. This plant will ...

Using steam to produce electricity or perform work via steam turbines has been a thing for a very long time. Today it is still exceedingly common to use steam in this manner, with said steam generated ...

Steam turbine-powered locomotives never really caught on. Similar to gas turbine engines, steam turbines are efficient at certain rpm, and extremely inefficient at many others. At high speeds, they ...

Steam turbines are a mature technology, and improvements tend to come in small increments. But even a 2 percent boost in efficiency on a 100 MW turbine makes a huge bottom line difference through ...

Steam turbines have helped drive a large chunk of our technological development over the last century or so, and they’ll always make for interesting DIY. [Hyperspace Pirate] built a small turbine and ...