During the 1990’s, some power plants experimented with fog-based power augmentation by overspraying fog into the compressor – known as wet compression. The results were impressive. They reported a ...

Engineers at the Karlsruhe Institute of Technology in Germany have run a hydrogen gas turbine without a mechanical compressor for 303 seconds, beating a prior NASA benchmark of 250 seconds for similar ...

Back in the early 2000s, some controversy emerged about the practice of spraying large amounts of fog directly into the compressor. Some claimed that this led to blade erosion, pitting, and scaling.