Gas Turbine Technology

Sir Frank Whittle, Inventer

Sir Frank Whittle, a British WWII aviator, is credited with the invention fo the gas turbine engine. See photo of

Rutland on the Leading Edge

First major gas turbine installation of three frame 3 gas turbines that were intercooled, regenerative cycle rated at 5000 KW.

The Saga of the Gas Turbine Business

Whit Ridgeway recollects how the gas turbine business became a reality in the 1960s.

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MS6001B Gas Turbine

Colored cross-sectional drawing of MS6001B gas turbine

Generator & Reduction Gear

Colored cross-setional drawing of a generator & reduction gear.

MS5001 Gas Turbine

Typical MS5001 gas turbine and accessory base

First MS6001B in 1978

GE installed the first MS6001B in the parking lot at GE Schenectady in 1978. It was called the SPOTS unit: Schenectady Plant Outside Test Site. Once the turbine was sold, the control cab was moved to the FEDC in Niskayuna.

GE Gas Turbine Installation Base (1998)

GE has gas turbines installed throughout the USA.

Gas Fuel System Schematic

 

Album of Fuel Regulator Fotos (GE Gas Turbine installed circa 1951)

Various views of Young & Franklin fuel regulator S/N 49 installad on gas turbine in 1951 at CVPS in Rutland, VT.

Power Generation and Transmission in USA

Map depictes the concentration of power generation and transmission lines in the USA. Notice the greatest density of generation (by darker shaded areas) are California, southern states from Texas to Florida and the northern areas from Chicago to the east including Washington, Baltimore, Philadelphia and NY City.

Gas Pipelines in the USA

Gas pipelines emanate primarily from Texas, Louisiana and Oklahoma and then flow northeastward toward Chicago, Detroit, New York and the east coast. A few lines come from Alaska across Canada into the north-central USA.

The 10 Commandments of Gas Turbine Technology

As depicted in the Mel Brooks movie "History of the World - Part 1," there were originally twenty (20) commandments, until Moses dropped one of the slates on his decent from Mount Sinai. The remaining ten were brought down from the Mountain by Dave Lucier (FEP-1968) and transcribed for posterity by the hand of Alfred Shuman (FEP-1971). In their original transcription, they were written in ancient caligraphy with a Jewish pen handed down through the ages by the sons of Israelites. You may have a coveted copy or seen one hanging on the walls of gas turbine operators or in the classroom of the FEDC.

Gas Turbine Maintenance Seminars

Instructors for Maintenance Seminars circa 1969 and 1970.

Fuel Regulator Experts

The photos include recognized experts in the manufacturing and operation of Fuel Regulators made by Young & Franklin

Sixty Years of Gas Turbine Technology

In 1949, the first land-based GE gas turbine was installed at Belle Station at Oklahoma Gas & Electric. Upon retirement, this unit was returned to GE at the Schenectady, NY plant where it sits outside for viewing.