Time for another edition of Rail Car What Is It. Today we have a large General Electric device. Some sort of large generator? Or maybe an steam powered industrial sized cheese grater? Inquiring minds want to know.
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Eric,
From some pictures I found, it sure looks like a hydrogen cooled generator designed to be paired with a gas turbine in a power plant.
Jason
Wow, sounds complex!
After working in a steam driven power plant for over thirty two years, I will definitely say it is a large GE generator for either a gas turbine or steam turbine plant. Yes most generators with steam turbines are hydrogen cooled , but our gas turbine generators were air cooled units. hope this answers your question.
Thank you. An impressive unit it was.
I agree. I’ll have to scratch my last assessment of the turbine exhaust condensing unit after looking at the thickness of the flanges and the bolting arrangement. Definitely high pressure steam
So nothing to do with popcorn? 😉