Simple cycle gas turbines provide efficiency levels of around 35% to 40%. Combined cycle units boost efficiency to 60% and beyond. ... The other traditional power plant design is combined cycle.

The designers of the Occam Cycle are currently raising production funds, on Kickstarter. A pledge of US$325 ($25 less than the planned retail price) will get you one, when and if they're ready to go.

Both simple cycle and combined cycle plants can showcase responsiveness and flexibility through inherent gas turbine technology and plant design. The primary focus of this article is on simple ...

All these factors are supply-voltage-dependent. Another factor for low-duty-cycle designs that does not apply to high-duty-cycle designs is the effect of the R B bypass diode, D 1 (Figure 2), required ...

Thus, they may make it impossible to simulate a really large design in a reasonable time. One solution is to use a cycle-based simulator, such as SpeedSim from SpeedSim Inc (Westford, MA). Cycle-based ...

Simple products are often less exciting than complex, high-tech ones, but provide an opportunity to learn about smart and efficient design. Robotwist is an example of a product that understands ...

In simple-cycle power plants that use gas turbines, ambient air is compressed and, at high pressure, mixed with fuel, generating thermal energy in a turbine combustion chamber.