GAS TURBINE

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HOW THE GAS GENERATOR PRODUCES ELECTRICITYTo generate electricity, the gas turbine heats a mixture of air and fuel at very high temperatures, causing the turbine blades to spin. The spinning turbine drives a generator that converts the energy into electricity.The gas turbine can be used in combination with a steam turbine—in a combined-cycle power plant—to create power extremely efficiently.1.Air-fuel mixture ignites.The gas turbine compresses air and mixes it with fuel that is then burned at extremely high temperatures, creating a hot gas.2.Hot gas spins turbine blades.The hot air-and-fuel mixture moves through blades in the turbine, causing them to spin quickly.3.Spinning blades turn the drive shaft.The fast-spinning turbine blades rotate the turbine drive shaft.4.Turbine rotation powers the generator.The spinning turbine is connected to the rod in a generator that turns a large magnet surrounded by coils of copper wire.5.Generator magnet causes electrons to move and creates electricity.The fast-revolving generator magnet creates a powerful magnetic field that lines up the electrons around the copper coils and causes them to move.The movement of these electrons through a wire is electricity.