Sentences with phrase «jet turbine engines»

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The gas turbine operates like a jet engine but drives a generator instead of fan blades.

It makes components for four different GE operations — jet engines, locomotives, wind turbines, and water - treatment units — the first time a factory has ever done that.

The technology overlaps are valuable: For example, carbon - fiber - reinforced composites developed for jet - engine fan blades are used in GE's wind - turbine fan blades, and ceramics developed for electricity - generating turbines are used in jet engines.

Jet engines, power turbines, motors, drives, the inside of a locomotive, a CT scanner — they all spin.

General Electric on Friday delivered quarterly earnings that surpassed analysts» expectations, as its businesses producing jet engines and power turbines offset declines in its oil and gas segment, but revenue fell short of estimates.

The Science Behind It Gas turbines are essentially rugged jet engines strapped to electric generators.

Regardless, ethanol's low energy density makes it unsuitable for jet - turbine engines.

The efficiency gains from using ultrahigh temperature materials in gas turbines and jet engines could have a real impact on CO2 emissions and global warming.»

Although the CHARLES solver was developed to tackle problems like high - fidelity jet engine simulation and supersonic jet noise prediction, it had never been applied to predict combustion dynamics in a configuration as complex as a GE gas turbine combustion system.

When evaluating a part, such as a turbine blade inside a hot jet engine, it is important to know how each segment of the blade heats up as hot gases flow around it.

Camci, who has worked on the method since 1989 with Steve Hippensteele of NASA's Lewis Research Center in Cleveland, Ohio, says that liquid crystals have several advantages: «The crystals are available as sheets of Mylar (polyethylene terephthalate) plastic or in liquid form, so that covering an entire piece of equipment, such a s a turbine blade or a jet engine duct, is fairly simple, particularly compared to applying thermocouples.

The Acer's thermal management system borrows from jet - engine turbine technology, using louvers in the vents to direct airflow across the bottom of the chassis.

The primary power source for the Patriot is a twin spool gas turbine like those found in jet engines, which runs at 100 000 revolutions per minute in its high - speed stage, and 50 000 rpm in its low - speed stage.

The benefit is higher efficiency jet engines and power turbines that produce more power and less greenhouse gases, which is a good thing for the planet.»

And although producing locomotives, jet engines, oil rigs, and wind turbines may not seem connected with cutting - edge clinical science, the common thread among the company's businesses remains strong: It is a leading infrastructure provider to industrial markets.

Inc., which has a manufacturing facility in Livermore and has licensed an LLNL laser technology for peening jet engine fan blades and turbines, and other aircraft structures, in one of the Laboratory's most successful technology commercialization partnerships.

What you describe sounds like a normal jet engine, where the combustion happens in - line between fan and turbine.

Other vehicles were released between the Model 6 and the 1950s, but one of the most influential innovations from Chrysler came with their the commissioning of a gas turbine engine program, which helped the company develop cars that ran as smoothly and powerfully as a jet engine.

From above, the instrument panel resembles an airplane wing; set low and with a turbine look about them, the round air nozzles, a classic TT feature, are reminiscent of jet engines.

The current Infiniti signature grille appears to be gone, replaced with a deep sulking one with a finely finned intake somewhat reminiscent of the front turbine on a jet engine.

War, perhaps the most state - directed of all enterprises, accelerated the diffusion of several key energy technologies, most notably the internal combustion engine, jet turbines, and nuclear reactors.

Look historically to see how long it has taken for us to get from the first engines (petrol, diesel, steam turbine, jet engine, solar thermal engine) and nuclear power plants to where we are at now.

In May, Immelt announced that G.E. is doubling its annual R&D spending on clean technology to $ 1.5 billion — developing a dizzying array of wind turbines, hybrid - engine trains, state - of - the - art jet engines, zero - emission coal plants and superefficient home appliances.

Human irritation from jet engines, lawn mowers, and wind turbines, much less SunChips» loud, crinkly bioplastic bags, stands as a reminder of the importance of the aural environment.

although this is alread more then the amount of birds wind turbines affect, i» l continue, between 100 million and 1 BILLION birds are killed by tall buildings, 60 - 80million from cars and turcks, pesticides, jet engines, smoke, homes and electricity distribution all contibute about 100 MILLION birds each for the U.S alone.

Using Fischer - Tropsch (FT) synthetic fuel or blend can significantly reduce gaseous particulate matter and gaseous emissions compared to standard military jet (JP - 8) fuel when used in a T63 gas - turbine helicopter engine, according to a new study by a team from the Center for Atmospheric Particle Studies, Carnegie Mellon University and... Read more →

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