Micro Gas Turbine

Basics

• A Category of Gas Turbines typically within 1-20 KW (Although supposedly 1MW units may be included in the high end)
• They multiple units can be used at one site, akin to a Power Cube but for the Factory/MicroGrid 's need

Main Companies Developing/Offering Micro Gas Turbines

• Capstone Green Energy (Formerly Capstone Turbines )

~1kw Turbine

• A 2008 Paper Titled "Development of a hydrogen fuelled 1 kW ultra micro gas turbine with special respect to designing, testing and mapping of the µ-scale combustor"
• ARPA-E - "1kW Microturbine System by Rory Keogh - Metis Design, Jim Kesseli - Brayton Energy, Peter Therkelsen -LBNL, Prof. Daejong Kim - UTA"

Ultra-Micro Gas Turbines

• Can have it's own page once enough content is here
• Essentially 1kw and below, even to PowerMEMS size
• Thus you could have a Small UAV, a Laptop, or even a Smartphone that run off of JP-5 etc
• "ADVANCES IN THE DEVELOPMENT OF A MICRO-TURBINE ENGINE AT ONERA" - "At Onera , a research program called DecaWatt is under development in order to realize a demonstrator of a micro gas turbine engine in the 50 to 100 Watts electrical power range."

Internal Links

• Gas Turbine
• Capstone Green Energy
• MicroGrid / MicroPower

External Links

• The Wikipedia Page on Micro Gas Turbines
• A 2013 Whitepaper Titled "EPA Renewable Energy Fact Sheet: Microturbines"
• A 2010 Power (Magazine) Article Titled "Microturbine Technology Matures"
• A 2019 Power (magazine) Article Titled "Microturbines Useful in Commercial and Industrial Applications"