How to Use gas turbine in a Sentence

gas turbine

noun

• The reason for two islands is, simply put, due to the gas turbine exhausts.
  — Kyle Mizokami, Popular Mechanics, 6 Jan. 2021
• Sales fell 9% in the power unit, which is mired in a market slump that’s sapping demand for gas turbines.
  — Bloomberg, Fortune, 20 Apr. 2018
• Demand response can drop a load just as quickly as firing up a gas turbine to meet that load, Brown said.
  — Travis Loller, ajc, 2 July 2021
• The credits were created by Dow’s shutdown of a gas turbine.
  — Mark Schleifstein, NOLA.com, 1 Feb. 2021
• Profits have dropped amid high costs and flagging demand for gas turbines.
  — BostonGlobe.com, 13 Sep. 2019
• Such robots will also be used to inspect and repair GE’s gas turbines.
  — The Economist, 30 Sep. 2017
• David was a welder and mechanic on steam and gas turbines, and was a gifted athlete, his obituary said.
  — Liam Quinn, Peoplemag, 2 Nov. 2023
• This eliminates the complex plumbing required to make a gas turbine work.
  — The Economist, 5 Apr. 2018
• Earnings in the business, which mainly sells gas turbines, fell by 58% in the quarter compared with a year earlier.
  — Spencer Jakab, WSJ, 20 July 2018
• Zunum is designing its plane as a hybrid -- battery-powered with a gas turbine as a backup.
  — CBS News, 9 June 2018
• The Center plans to use the electricity produced by nearby wind turbines at night to compress air, and feed the air into a gas turbine during the day.
  — Molly A. Seltzer, Smithsonian, 4 Aug. 2017
• New test cells, control room and other upgrades at the Tibbs Avenue campus will be used to test modern gas turbine engines.
  — Alexandria Burris, The Indianapolis Star, 18 Mar. 2022
• The city is home to Parker’s gas turbine fuel systems division.
  — Sean McDonnell, cleveland, 29 Aug. 2022
• With products from gas turbines to steel and aluminum affected, the spat threatens to raise costs, slow economic growth and erode oil demand.
  — Grant Smith, Houston Chronicle, 4 Apr. 2018
• The unit houses Siemens’s gas turbine business and was long a centerpiece of the German conglomerate.
  — William Boston, WSJ, 7 May 2019
• Case in point: At the company’s gas turbine plant in Greenville, S.C., the team found the production process had become overly complicated.
  — BostonGlobe.com, 20 Mar. 2021
• Founder Richard Browning, powered by gas turbine engines, flew 10 or 15 feet into the air, zooming around a grassy patch of land near a convention center.
  — Pranshu Verma, Washington Post, 28 Sep. 2022
• The case involved the transfer of gas turbines to create an independent power supply for Crimea and Sevastopol.
  — Laurence Norman, WSJ, 4 Aug. 2017
• Siemens Energy needs the guarantees to win new large-scale contracts to build transmission networks and gas turbines.
  — Wilfried Eckl-Dorna, Fortune, 26 Oct. 2023
• One tactic is to increase a gas turbine engine’s bypass ratio so that more air flows around the combustion chamber instead of through it.
  — Jennifer Walter, Discover Magazine, 15 Oct. 2022
• The power-equipment unit has been a pain point for GE amid a global downturn in the market for gas turbines, and the business struggled with a 30 percent decline in third-quarter orders.
  — BostonGlobe.com, 31 Oct. 2019
• Ukrainian and Russian tanks are also patterned on the T-72 series, and to a lesser extent, the similar (but gas turbine-powered) T-80.
  — Kyle Mizokami, Popular Mechanics, 26 Sep. 2022
• Since taking the reins in late 2018, Culp has slashed debt, sold assets, and focused on turning around GE’s beleaguered gas turbine business, a major source of the company’s cash woes.
  — Ryan Beene, BostonGlobe.com, 21 Aug. 2020
• Reuters piled on the GE narrative this morning, with a story about how overly optimistic the company was about the market for gas turbines last year, leading to the meltdown of its power unit.
  — Alan Murray, Fortune, 22 Feb. 2018
• The Abrams, with its 105-millimeter main gun, gas turbine engine, and revolutionary armor, had a decisive edge over the tanks of the Soviet Union.
  — Kyle Mizokami, Popular Mechanics, 1 Nov. 2022
• The plants cannot compete with new gas turbine power plants burning cheap natural gas and with wind farms that are still receiving production tax credits.
  — John Funk, cleveland.com, 23 Apr. 2018
• The two conventional diesel and GE gas turbine were replaced with three Detroit Diesel 1200 horsepower engines.
  — Kyle Mizokami, Popular Mechanics, 25 July 2016
• The American M1A2 Abrams tank also uses a gas turbine engine, which would require regular shipments of gasoline fuel to the front.
  — Kyle Mizokami, Popular Mechanics, 26 Sep. 2022
• Others argue Siemens could go further, for example, by merging or selling its power business, which like GE’s has been hit by a sharp fall in demand for large gas turbines.
  — Ruth Bender, WSJ, 8 Nov. 2018
• That tank was considered a failure, since its gas turbine power plant was unreliable.
  — Kyle Mizokami, Popular Mechanics, 5 Apr. 2021

Last Updated: 22 Oct 2024