Polar Works-Inlet Cooling Technology Overview

Inlet Cooling Technology Overview

Polar Works had the first site on the Web devoted exclusively to the art of gas turbine inlet air cooling. A key part of our strategy as we introduce our revolutionary technology to the market is to provide excellent reference materials on various types of inlet cooling systems and project financing. While we will be adding information about our technology to this site throughout 2000, we will officially introduce the Polar Works system at the Power Gen show (and on this Web site) in November.

There are a variety of methods in use for cooling gas turbine operations, all with different but essentially constrained rates of success. Polar Works was formed in the belief that there had to be a better way to achieve the desired productivity results. Rather than trying to put a square peg in a round hole by forcing an existing cooling method to work in the power plant environment, we began Polar Works by taking what we knew about the power industry and defining the requirements of our new technology.

In order to understand Polar Works' technology, it helps to be familiar with some basic principles of gas turbine power generation:

1. Gas turbines are designed to suck in as much air as possible, so that they can burn as much gas as possible.

2. More air allows for more gas, which in turn makes more power.

3. The best way to increase mass flow is to make the air at the front end of the compressor as dense as possible.

4. The density of air is increased by 1) low temperature, 2) low humidity, and 3) increased barometric pressure.

It is therefore Polar Works' goal to make the air as cold and as dry as possible.