GAS TURBINE INLET AIR COOLING FOR POWER GENERATION

Electricity is the fastest growing form of energy consumption, not only in developing countries but also in the more mature economies of the world. This fact presents a challenge to operators to improve output to meet the demands of growth.

Mee Industries is recognized as the world's leader for gas turbine power augmentation with inlet air fogging. Many large electric power utilities have adopted Mee Fog systems for their entire gas turbine fleet at exisitng and new power generating sites. For example, in 1998, Tennessee Valley Authority, installed MeeFog systems on its fleet of 48 gas turbines, and again in 2001 they added fog to 16 new GE 7EA turbines. Florida Power & Light has installed 34 fog systems on its fleet of GE 7FA turbines.

Fog cooling is a highly cost-effective way to improve the output of existing plants and inlet fogging can make a big difference in the economics of a new plant. For example the cost per kW of a new plant can be reduced by as much as 15% simply by adding a Mee Fog system to the project.

Mee Industries uses a packaged-engineering approach that makes it possible to deliver and install cost effective power-boosting fog systems with a typical project lead time of 12 weeks. Fog systems can be installed on existing turbines with as little as 24 hours of outage time.

With over 700 installations, and more than 30 years experience with high-pressure fogging, Mee Industries is the preferred supplier for major Utilities and Independent Power Producers (IPPs) around the world.