Sentences with phrase «turbine blade failure»

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It can also throw off the balance of a wind turbine's spinning blades, putting tremendous forces on shafts and machinery, leading to failures or shut - downs.

In addition to becoming more prone to catastrophic failure, the turbines also become less efficient at higher speeds because they become more like a wall than a rotor, blocking the wind from flowing past the rapidly rotating blades, says Asfaw Beyene, a professor of engineering at San Diego State University in California, who was not involved with the work.

When a major turbine manufacturer calls a catastrophic failure like a blade falling off component liberation, we know we are in for an adventurous ride in a theme park divorced from reality.

Nacelle fires which are inaccessible to fire fighters due to the height of the nacelle plus the burning debris drifting for kilometres down wind are the second major fault of wind turbines next to blade failures.

An anti-wind power Net site (Caithness Windfarm Information Forum) in 2013 recorded an average of about 20 blade - failure events per year world - wide (not necessarily in utility scale wind turbines and the blades did not necessarily fall off).