Sentences with phrase «as compressed air»

Steve Orchard illustrates the inefficiencies of storing excess wind power as compressed air (15 November, p 31).

Not exact matches

They should also promote storage facilities for excess energy such as pumped storage hydropower plants or underground vaults for compressed air.

This compressed time span lends an air of great urgency, as in television shows such as 24.

Some medium such as air was compressed and extended or undulated.

Conservation of resources and basic amenities (such as raw material, water, fuel, electricity and compressed air) through recovery and recycling as applicable

The yield is correct — your dry ingredients are compressed, the addition of wet ingredients adds volume, and a 1/2 cup of cereal has air space in between the pieces so it wouldn't equal the same as the dry ingredients.

In certain sorting and ejection systems for large piece sorting applications (e.g. whole vegetables and whole fruit), the choice to use a sorter that is fitted with finger ejection (such as the TOMRA 5A), as opposed to air ejection, significantly reduces the use of compressed air, which improves the overall energy efficiency of a food processing line.

Using magnetism and compressed air, these grippers can be used for positioning and placing baking tins on the infeed conveyors as well as for destacking lids from a magazine.

«I had my mouth over his nose, breathing into his nose as I was compressing and rubbing his chest, trying to work the air out,» Janssen said.

Just as a piston moves up to compress a mixture of gas and air in the cylinder of a reciprocal engine and is in turn forced down again by the explosion of the mixture, the rotor in a Wankel slides around a specially shaped chamber, first compressing, then being pushed by that same explosive mixture.

By the use of a spring the tension is increased as the air is exhausted and the spring is compressed and decreased as the spring resumes its normal shape, which by the use of weights the tension is increased slightly by the momentum acquired by the descending weight as the air chamber is distended... This variation relieves the constant pull on the breast that would take place if the action was direct.

On average, the new snow guns will require as little as eight cubic feet per minute (CFM) of compressed air, compared to 200 - 300 CFM that the older technology required.

Under legislation proposed by Rory Lancman, officers caught using a chokehold — defined as wrapping the hands or arms around someone's neck and compressing their windpipe to restrict the flow of air or squeezing their carotid artery to interrupt the flow of blood — would face misdemeanor charges.

They say there must be something about the compressed air which generates energy and enthusiasm, for the «muckers» — commonly known as «sand hogs» — vied with one another to make the record progress.

The heat was driven by westerly «foehn» winds, which formed as air sliding down the mountains of the peninsula compressed and warmed.

Today, five million rickshaws ply India's streets with roughly 80 percent of these iconic open - air taxis still boasting two - stroke engines in midsize cities such as Pune, Rajkot and Surat; many of the rest either run on two - stroke compressed natural gas (CNG) engines or the larger and cleaner - burning four - stroke gasoline or CNG engines.

The CDC defines primary blast injuries as those caused by the blast wave — extremely compressed air moving away from the explosion — that can damage the lungs, bowel and ears.

I liked the placement of workbenches and the location of all the common fixtures such as natural gas, compressed air, tap water, and distilled water, so I didn't need to change these arrangements.

Other R&D efforts in alternative forms of power focus on developing fuel cells, alternative forms of combustion such as GDI and HCCI, and even the stored energy of compressed air.

In his vision, billions of robots on the ocean floor tend tanks of compressed air that power turbines, the Southwest is known affectionately as algae country, and energy traders make their fortunes speculating on the price of chicken - manure gas.

Led by George Whitesides, a renowned Harvard chemist and materials scientist as well as member of Scientific American's Board of Advisers, the group's best - known robot is a squishy X-shaped quadruped made from elastomers — stretchy plastics — and controlled by pumping compressed air through its network of internal channels.

As you go up a mountain, the air becomes less compressed and is therefore thinner.

Our DAC system has four major unit operations that comprise a closed chemical loop, which continuously captures CO2 from atmospheric air, and delivers a purified compressed stream of CO2, using only water and energy as inputs.

As the quintuplets deal with a wayward hose shooting out compressed air, paint cans leave them all to sport a variety of colorful designs.

This process can restore compacted and contaminated synthetic football, rugby, hockey and tennis surfaces to «as new» performance and appearance using compressed air to remove the contaminated top layer of sand and restore the pile to vertical.

A large part of this is down to the lack of an exciting engine note — just a lot of hissing and wooshing as large amounts of air are ingested, compressed and turned into power, rather than what a supercar should have, namely a thrilling, engaging engine note.

After the chain is clean, I would wash it off with water (often, chain cleaning is coincident with bike wash — wash the top side, clean the chain, wash it off and finish the wheels and bottom), let it dry and help, if possible, with compressed air to blow as much water out as possible.

This causes the engine to shut down quickly and smoothly without any «shuddering» that might happen if the engine continued to take in and compress air as the rotating mass comes to a rest.

First, everyone who said that the braking effect comes from the compression stroke is wrong... the air in the cylinder is compressed which takes energy, yet after top dead center acts as a spring and helps force the piston back down, returning the exact same force as was put into it in the first place.

Air at this velocity has sufficient momentum to continue to push and compress into the cylinder even as the piston is moving up for the compression stroke.

As you stand on the pedal, the system is compressing the air pocket instead of the fluid, hence the brakes won't actuate.

Used on supercharged and turbo charged vehicles, the inter cooler is mounted at the front of the vehicle in the air stream and cools the compressed intake air as it flows over fins and plates inside the inter cooler.

The higher compression ratio in diesels means they are harder to start, but once they are running the energy expended in compressing air is regained during the expansion stroke when the compressed air is allowed to «spring» back, so the higher compression ratio causes negligible engine braking via energy being lost as friction and heat of compressed air to engine block.

Normally, during the compression stroke, energy is used as the upward - traveling piston compresses air in the cylinder; the compressed air then acts as a compressed spring and pushes the piston back down.

Adding GDI, or Gasoline Direct Injection, inside the cylinder rather than in the intake manifold as is now common, so - called Sequential multi-port fuel injection, controls the fuel even better for each particular cylinder, prevents fuel puddling in the intake manifold, and allows the fuel to cool the compressed air in the cylinder.

The supercharger compresses the intake air to as much as 0.8 bar; two intercoolers then cool it for greater power.

As a logical addition to the turbocharger system, Mercedes - Benz installs a larger intercooler than the one seen in the previous models, which reduces the temperature of the compressed and heated air by around 140 degrees Celsius so that a larger volume of air can enter the combustion chambers.

The horn is compressed air in a can that emits a loud sound as you depress a button.

Canine Innovations (petconvincer.com): Headquartered in Mt. Clemens, Mich., the company offers The Pet Convincer, a training tool that mixes a burst of chemical - free cold - compressed air with an acoustic effect to instantly interrupt unwanted behavior such as excessive barking, jumping, whining, digging, disobedience and aggression.

As they dive, outside pressure compresses the air in their bodies.

Blowholes (partially submerged caves that eject large sprays of sea water as waves retreat and allow rapid re-expansion of air compressed within) attest to this process.

Valve gives some useful tips about this new feature such as using the compressed air to knock Medics out of the picture completely for a time, or give the Soldier a taste of his own rocket.

/ Two giant hands compress the air / to drowsy weight, cross-section pane of day / entranced, as if the swaying rows / of fingers green and shimmering / had rent the gold, held back the rising light / to let some ancient passion linger and slip away.»

As the waves rise, the air inside each column (above sea level) is compressed and forced out of a small opening at the top.

Glenn Bower, a professor of mechanical engineering at the University of Wisconsin, who with his students has designed hybrid - power vehicles, said he thought that compressed air compared unfavorably with batteries as a medium for storing energy.

But below about 1,500 meters, the ice becomes so compressed that trapped air molecules are forced into the space between the ice crystals, forming what is known as a gas clathrate.

The German utility will provide cooling, compressed air as well as renewable energy for the large - scale research facility

The air at the bottom has a higher temperature as a consequence of being compressed by the mass of air above being acted upon by gravity.

As it expands, it does work against the surrounding or covering air, compressing or displacing it, and loses some kinetic energy (heat) in the process, but it does not immediately cool to the ambient temperature.

The levelized costs of storage have been declining rapidly, and a number of promising technologies are being developed to store energy in a cost - effective manner, such as through grid - scale lithium ion batteries, flow batteries, compressed air systems, and thermal storage.