Sentences with word «nacelle»
A nacelle is a protective housing or enclosure, typically used in the context of vehicles or aircraft. It is a structure that houses important components such as engines, fuel tanks, or generators, providing a streamlined shape and protection against external forces. Full definition
According to Deutsche WindGuard, demands for the inclusion of nacelle - mounted Lidar for power curve test in turbine agreements occur in about half of the projects.
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The entire nacelle casing on the turbine broke off earlier this month.
Design hardware components of engine nacelles for Airbus, Boeing, Embraer, Bombardier, Mitsubishi
Save the Eagles International (STEI) has posted photographs of raptors perched on nacelles or nonmoving blades, and ospreys building a nest on a decommissioned turbine.
LM Wind's rotor's attached to GE's Haliade nacelles at America's first offshore wind farm on Block Island, Block Island.
One wonders if so much frontal - inlet area is necessary, but these front - quarter grilles allow a central nacelle much like racing cars of yore, before ugly wings became necessary.
The company said that it is currently unclear why the bolts failed and caused the entire nacelle casing to break off in April.
The Strat - Houses will be supported by nacelles filled with helium.»
At the rear tail lamps were now housed in vertical nacelles designed with an angled peak at the center.
Blacking out the lower center makes the car seem slimmer than it really is and gives the impression of a central nacelle around the engine compartment.
The redesigned interior boasts a dashboard with large, round nacelles that flare from the instrument panel.
Sharp separation of top of trunk and tail panel also transitions from convex surface above, concave below, with a little inset nacelle to present the Nissan badge.
Like it or not, control of trip data and dash lights is by tabs on the outer edge of the instrument nacelle.
For a start the camera nacelles are far smaller than a mirror, reducing overall vehicle width by almost 6 - inches.
LED running lights and fog lamps fill outer nacelles and the Limited gets turn - following HID headlights, the Ultimate LED low - beam units.
Located deep within red - glowing nacelles, the primary instruments are large and easily readable.
The main headlamps nest in unusual bumper nacelles.
For instance, since no U.S. ship was capable of hoisting the 400 - ton nacelles, or generators, 330 feet to the tops of the Block Island turbine towers, Deepwater Wind had to lease a Norwegian vessel to do the job.
In a «NDR Hallo Niedersachsen» report aired 25 April, wind industry group WAB head Andreas Wellbrock described the missing nacelle casing as a «setback» that will need to be scrutinised in order to make sure it does not happen again.
The state - of - the - art, 433 - foot long jack - up vessel traveled from France to Rhode Island, with the five GE Renewable Energy nacelles for the Block Island Wind Farm aboard.
This obviously allows for a shorter nacelle, and it may reduce other costs.
The campaign concluded that the Wind Iris nacelle - Lidar was able to measure wind speed out to 454 meters, with a precision similar to that of a met mast.
Since 2013, the German independent consulting firm highlighted that power curve warranties based on two - and four - beam nacelle Lidar power curve verification already have been successfully created by three of the leading turbine suppliers.
The cranes must be equally capable of lifting 400 - to -500-ton nacelles 110 meters in the air and positioning them atop the towers.
«EDF RE is also proud of Kelly Creek's positive economic impact, generated through the use of wind turbine towers, blades and nacelles manufactured at Vestas» Colorado facilities, the creation of approximately 100 construction jobs and 10 long - term, full - time operations jobs, long - term lease payments to landowners, and recurring tax payments to local municipalities.»
GE Renewable Energy aims to supply its first nacelle for demonstration in 2019 and ship the first units in 2021.
«In a major shift, the growth in U.S. wind turbine manufacturing capability, combined with the drop in wind power plant installations, led to an estimated over-capacity of U.S. turbine nacelle assembly capability of roughly 2.5 GW in 2010, in comparison to 4 GW of under - capacity in 2009,» according to the DOE.
Performed detailed stress analysis for engine and nacelle latching systems (hand calcs, Mathcad).
Performed and documented static and fatigue analysis for metallic and composite nacelle components
* Implemented the Boeing 787 laminar flow nacelle.
GE Renewable Energy begins shipping its first offshore wind turbine nacelles to the United States
Earlier this month, a Shanghai - bound, China Eastern Airlines plane, which also uses a Rolls - Royce Trent 700 Engine, was forced to turn back to Sydney after part of the engine's nacelle casing came off, according to CNN.
The Aerospace Systems segment produces products for aircraft manufacturers, including aircraft subsystems like propellers, engine nacelles, actuation systems and landing gear.
Once the NAS is pulled up and attached to the side of the nacelle, it uses a number of cables to hoist the crane itself.
The Tower Crane, which measures 10 meters long, 2.9 meters high and 3.3 meters wide, actually ascends through a multistep process: The cable lowered from the nacelle to the ground first connects to and hoists a tackle (a system of pulleys that distributes the crane's weight), which Vestas calls the «nacelle attachment system,» or NAS.
The Vestas Tower Crane, still in the prototype phase, is designed to attach to a cable lowered down from a small crane located inside the turbine tower's nacelle (the cover housing the wind turbine's generator and gearbox) and hoisted upward.
He estimated Vestas will need at least two new factories to produce the V164 — one for blades and one for nacelles.
The Siemens 6 MW prototype even has a helicopter - hoisting platform integrated in the back of the nacelle to allow easy access for service technicians.
The turbine comprises a float, a counterweight, a nacelle to house electricity - generating components, and three blades.
Notice the nacelle shape coming forward from the slightly inset badge.
This undercut surface presents the grille and center portion of the hood as a nacelle, similar to traditional racing cars.
The hood scoop is blacked out as well, and there's new LED Rigid Industries lower front fog lamps in a nacelle with a second opening above to make space for brighter (non-Fed approved) aftermarket lighting.