Sentences with phrase «as electrical energy»

During deceleration and under braking, the electric motor acts as high - output generator to effect regenerative braking, optimizing energy management in the Lexus Hybrid Drive system by recovering kinetic energy (normally wasted as heat under braking and deceleration) as electrical energy for storage in the high performance battery.
During regenerative braking, the motor also acts as a high - output generator, recovering kinetic energy as electrical energy to charge the system battery.
Also, some of the energy used to overcome inertia and accelerate the vehicle — normally lost when the vehicle is slowed, to aerodynamic forces and rolling resistance as well to the mechanical brakes (as heat)-- may be recaptured as electrical energy if regenerative braking is available (see the discussion of hybrid electric drive trains).
Normally wasted as heat, kinetic energy is recovered as electrical energy for storage in the high performance battery.
Nitrogen - doped titanium dioxide absorbs visible sunlight and then releases it as electrical energy to destroy certain organic molecules bound to its surface.
«The various «A» and «X» combinations already known make the «AX» structures highly attractive for a number of potential applications, such as electrical energy storage and catalysis.»

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Electricity can be described as «the flow of electrical power,» as the U.S. Department of Energy (DOE) puts it.
Titles with the most job openings: Engineers, including sales engineers, electrical, mechanical, energy, industrial, software, safety, manufacturing and project engineers, as well as field service technicians.
• Trident Maritime Systems, a Virginia - based portfolio company of J.F. Lehman & Co., has agreed to acquire Callenberg Technology Group, a Swedish maker of HVAC, electrical energy management and insulation systems for commercial and government vessels, from Wilhelmsen Maritime Services AS.
The Meikle Wind energy project will require concrete, steel, electrical equipment and skilled workers to install turbines that stand as tall as 60 storeys.
Salas O'Brien was founded in 1975 as an energy engineering firm with its core competencies in mechanical and electrical engineering design.
Some scientists believe that an electrical apocalypse could really occur, in the event of an electromagnetic pulse attack, described in one 2008 white paper as «a high - intensity burst of electromagnetic energy caused by the rapid acceleration of charged particles.»
Well I guess I will step out and show how crazy I really am but I look at God as being pure energy, our bodies, our minds, everything we see is driven by energy and the «feeling» I spoke of is similar to an electrical charge.
Energy Consumption: Meat processing facilities are major users of use energy to heat water and produce steam for process applications and for cleaning purposes, as well as for operation of miscellaneous electrical equipment, refrigeration, and air compreEnergy Consumption: Meat processing facilities are major users of use energy to heat water and produce steam for process applications and for cleaning purposes, as well as for operation of miscellaneous electrical equipment, refrigeration, and air compreenergy to heat water and produce steam for process applications and for cleaning purposes, as well as for operation of miscellaneous electrical equipment, refrigeration, and air compressors.
Every nation with nuclear capabilities, even with nuclear capability only to create electrical energy, as Iran claims its desire is, must be under the spell of the International Atomic Energy inspection prenergy, as Iran claims its desire is, must be under the spell of the International Atomic Energy inspection prEnergy inspection program.
In the coming weeks, Cuomo will role out a separate clean energy standard that will serve as a roadmap to New York's renewable future, where 50 percent of the electrical grid must come from solar, wind and other clean energy sources by 2030.
As the state shifts toward renewable energy, under a mandate to power half its electrical grid with solar and wind by 2030, nuclear also supplies about 60 percent of its carbon - free power.
The Cuomo administration estimates the Clean Energy Standard, chiefly its nuclear subsidies, will add an average of $ 2 to residential electric bills, although the Empire Center calculated the standard would hike the average residential bill by more than $ 2.09 in 2018 and by $ 3.40 in 2021 from added supply costs alone; compliance with the standard will necessitate major changes to the electrical grid, which will separately drive up customer delivery charges as utilities are forced to accommodate intermittent generation from solar panels and wind turbines.
With growing risks to the nation's electrical grid from natural disasters and as a potential target for malicious attacks, the U.S. Department of Energy (DOE) and the U.S. Department of Homeland Security (DHS) should work closely with utility operators and other stakeholders to improve cyber and physical security and resilience, says a new congressionally mandated report by the National Academies of Sciences, Engineering, and Medicine.
A flywheel system would take the electrical energy and store it as mechanical energy.
Boosting the fuel efficiency of motor vehicles by «harvesting» the energy generated by their shock absorbers and feeding it back into batteries or electrical systems such as air conditioning has become a major goal in automotive engineering.
Before the collision could happen, as scientists were trying to ramp up the current and energy, something went wrong with a connection of the bus bar between magnets, creating an electrical arc that punctured the helium enclosure and caused large quantities of liquid helium to be released (helium is necessary to cool the superconducting magnets that guide the beams around the ring).
Superconducting cables minimize energy loss, and power - to - gas systems store excess electrical generation as hydrogen or methane.
In addition to being light and flexible, it can extract electrical energy from human blood and sweat, making the device potentially usable as a power source for tiny medical devices inside the human body.
As long as the pulse activates enough nerves it will have performed its role, but as each waveform uses a different amount of electrical energy, it's possible that implants could be putting out unnecessarily strong pulses that waste precious battery poweAs long as the pulse activates enough nerves it will have performed its role, but as each waveform uses a different amount of electrical energy, it's possible that implants could be putting out unnecessarily strong pulses that waste precious battery poweas the pulse activates enough nerves it will have performed its role, but as each waveform uses a different amount of electrical energy, it's possible that implants could be putting out unnecessarily strong pulses that waste precious battery poweas each waveform uses a different amount of electrical energy, it's possible that implants could be putting out unnecessarily strong pulses that waste precious battery power.
Within these countries, nuclear energy contributes on average 24 percent of their total electrical power, ranging as high as 72 percent in France.
As they incessantly shake or spin or crawl around the cell, these machines cut, paste and copy genetic molecules, shuttle nutrients around or turn them into energy, build and repair cellular membranes, relay mechanical, chemical or electrical messages — the list goes on and on, and new discoveries add to it all the time.
Such new technology will enable advances in battery materials science, flexible battery charging rates, thermal and electrical engineering of new battery materials / technology and it has the potential to help the design of energy storage systems for high performance applications such as motor racing and grid balancing.
«As much as 15 percent of energy is lost to dissipation during transmission, so if you could make wires from this material and use them in the electrical grid, it could change that story.&raquAs much as 15 percent of energy is lost to dissipation during transmission, so if you could make wires from this material and use them in the electrical grid, it could change that story.&raquas 15 percent of energy is lost to dissipation during transmission, so if you could make wires from this material and use them in the electrical grid, it could change that story.»
The new system is also designed to allow a PHEV to use its battery as an energy storage device, enabling the car to hold electrical energy in the battery while the grid has surplus power (during off - peak hours, for example) and contribute its surplus energy back to the grid when the latter needs more power to meet peak demand, Su says.
Previously, researchers have produced hydrogen gas in microbial - powered, batterylike fuel cells, but only when they supplemented the energy produced by the bacteria with electrical energy from external sources — such as that obtained from renewable sources or burning fossil fuels, says Bruce Logan, an environmental engineer at Pennsylvania State University, University Park.
Indeed, it is essential to determine luminous efficacy as accurately as possible so that such lamps can be introduced in the market that transform as much electrical energy into light useful to the human eye as possible.
Using a resistor to convert electrical charge to alternating current, Krupenkin was able to harvest electrical energy from drops of either mercury or galinstan, a gallium - based alloy as they were moved along these channels and over the electrodes.
When energy is added to the material, either by a laser «pump» or as an electrical current, it kicks some of the electrons orbiting the molecules into higher energy states.
The researchers discovered the high - tech material can act as a microphone (by capturing the vibrations from sound, or mechanical energy, and converting it to electrical energy) as well as a loudspeaker (by operating the opposite way: converting electrical energy to mechanical energy).
As the shaft turns, it is able to do work and produce either mechanical or electrical energy.
If electrical energy can be used to modulate cell response, why not optical energy as well, Boyden asks.
There may not yet be a market for underwater turbines or wave - riding electrical generators designed to use ocean turbulence as a source of renewable energy, but that has not stopped a handful of entrepreneurs from trying to create one.
These 2D semiconductors feature the same hexagonal «honeycombed» structure as graphene and superfast electrical conductance, but, unlike graphene, they have natural energy band - gaps.
Using an onboard source of energy (such as a battery, ultracapacitor, solar panel or any combination thereof), the electrodes will send an electrical current into the plasma, causing the plasma to push against the neutral (noncharged) air surrounding the craft, theoretically generating enough force for liftoff and movement in different directions (depending on where on the craft's surface you direct the electrical current).
These defects were observed by measuring tiny electrical currents created when charges that were frozen in the traps at extremely cold temperatures escape by receiving a jolt of thermal energy as the device is heated, a process called thermally stimulated current.
Baughman and his colleagues have been developing substances that serve as artificial muscles (by converting chemical energy into electrical energy) that may someday be able to move prosthetic limbs and robot parts.
Fuel cells convert chemical energy into electrical energy using hydrogen and oxygen — with water as the only product.
«Our work has fundamental contributions by introducing electrical bias as a way to control the phase of an active material, and by laying the basic scientific groundwork for such novel energy and information processing devices,» Yildiz adds.
A spin wave can be thought of as similar to an ocean wave, which keeps water molecules in essentially the same place while the energy is carried through the water, as opposed to an electric current, which can be envisioned as water flowing through a pipe, said principal investigator Kang L. Wang, UCLA's Raytheon Professor of Electrical Engineering and director of the Western Institute of Nanoelectronics (WIN).
Bettencourt and his colleagues at Arizona State University (A.S.U.), Dresden University of Technology in Germany and New Mexico's Santa Fe Institute, modeled the growth of a city according to three categories of factors: material infrastructure (road surfaces, electrical cable, etc.), human needs (such as total energy consumption and housing) and patterns of social activity, including total bank deposits, research and development, new cases of AIDS and new patents filed.
Their work has implications for the development of novel electronic devices, such as photo sensors that convert light into electrical energy.
As a result, the engineered quantum dots feature nearly complete suppression of Auger effect's heat loss, and this allows for redirecting the energy released by the electrical current into the light - emission channel instead of wasteful heat.
We can also store the leftover renewable energy in the form of compressed hydrogen for a later use when the electrical demand is higher, or as fuel for vehicles,» Serra adds.
As the pack bounces, it periodically runs a toothed rack across a gear attached to small generator on the fixed frame (see picture), thus converting the mechanical energy of walking into electrical energy.
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