Sentences with phrase «of turbine»

«Researchers have found that the passing of a turbine blade causes a sudden pressure drop that is of such a magnitude athat it can cause bats» lungs to explode», Montford says.

On average, Altitec estimates that it carries out lightning repairs on up to 4 percent of the turbine blades it inspects each year.

Who controls the exact location of the turbine?

Although nacelle - Lidar measurements are not yet covered by IEC standards, developers are requesting that nacelle - mounted LIDARs be selected as a cost - effective alternative to met masts as part of the Turbine Supply Agreement.

For a taste of their highly relevant qualifications and experience why not check out their thumping CVs here: Schomer and Hessler; and both of them were involved in another proper piece of investigation into the adverse impacts of turbine generated low - frequency noise and infrasound on neighbours at Shirley, Wisconsin back in 2012 (see the report here and our post here).

The wake of a turbine is a region of lower wind speed and increased turbulence that reduces the power output and increases damaging loads on downwind turbines in its path.

Wounded or freshly killed birds to be found under wind turbines will always attract eagles and other birds of prey to within striking distance of the turbine blades.

No electronics, or chemical battery, and when power is needed water can be released from a water tower to generate current with some kind of turbine.

«The pressure and fluid density at the exit of our turbine is two orders of magnitude higher than in a steam turbine,» Hofer says.

Senate Bill 328, if approved, would determine setback requirements based on the height of the turbine and the length of the turbine's blades.

GE Reports first wrote about Hofer last year when he 3D printed a plastic prototype of the turbine.

A bill from Ohio Sen. Matt Dolan (R - Chagrin Falls) would ease property line setbacks to 120 percent of a turbine's height.

That meant a surge of tower and rooftop turbines on the market, and a whole bunch of new consumers who had no idea about what sort of turbine might work for their home.

Those requirements are stricter than the previous property line in 2014, which had been 110 percent of a turbine's height.

The federal government gives a 30 % tax credit (for the entire price of the turbine) for homeowners who buy one.

The only animated entry on this list, it goes behind the scenes of wind energy generation to break down the job of each piece of a turbine (from the blades to the yaw drive).

The report's author, Prof Gordon Hughes, an economist at Edinburgh University and a former energy adviser to the World Bank, discovered that the «load factor» — the efficiency rating of a turbine based on the percentage of electricity it actually produces compared with its theoretical maximum — is reduced from 24 per cent in the first 12 months of operation to just 11 per cent after 15 years.

Wind power is generated by harnessing wind through the use of a turbine.

This dramatically reduces the cost of the turbine, which economically makes it much more interesting to implement windpower.

A generator is mounted at one end of the turbine shaft and consists of carefully wound wire coils.

Historically, a number of turbine combustors were «liberated» resulting in «substantial» downstream «disruption».

Wind industry opponent and some experts, though, say the impact of a turbine on surrounding property extends beyond the one - acre plot of land that it sits upon.

In the Australian context with our very inflammable environment right across SE australia where by far the bulk of the turbine farms are located, the almost guaranteed likelihood of turbine nacelle fires might well be a very major and an ultimately disastrous life destroying fault of wind turbines as they begin to age and become more prone to mechanical failure and electrical failures in the nacelles.

Once you determine how energy is compensated, the estimated production on a monthly basis and the installed and ongoing costs of the turbine, the payback period can be determined by dividing the sum of the costs by the net energy produced times the rate compensated for energy.

Research by Stefan Oerlemans placed on the Net by the University of Twente looked into placing saw - teeth on the trailing edge of turbine blades to reduce sound levels.

For something that the wind industry keeps telling us is as rare as hen's teeth, the unshackling of 10 tonne blades (euphemistically called «component liberation»), the total collapse of 200 - 300 tonne turbines and the spontaneous combustion of turbine generators (and the 1,000 litres of highly toxic gear and hydraulic oil that slosh around inside the -LSB-...]

Wind farms must be built at a distance from housing of at least 10 times the height of the turbine, or about 1.5 to 2 km, under the law which was adopted by the lower house of parliament on Friday.

These plants can produce power fairly consistently throughout the day because of the inertia of the turbine and the ability to burn natural gas when clouds roll in.

This Senate Bill 238 changes the distance requirement to «at least 1,225 in horizontal distance from the tip of the turbine's nearest blade at ninety degrees to the exterior of the nearest, habitable, residential structure, if any, located on adjacent property at the time of the certification application.»

As the different state elevator authorities having jurisdiction (AHJs) require annual inspections of the WTE installations, we have had the honor and responsibility of ensuring these installations are safe every time a technician needs to get to the top of the turbine and back down again.

In none of the cases I looked at would the income over the 20 year life of the turbine be sufficient to pay back the capital cost, let alone interest on the capital, maintenance, insurance, decommissioning.

The first is that the turbines become less efficient over time as a result of mechanical wear and tear, erosion of the turbine blades and related factors.

Consider just one part of a turbine, the generator, which uses considerable rare earth elements (2000 ± pounds per MW).

This in turn means a smaller unit can suffice, and very significantly for wildlife, the birds can SEE every part of the turbine area, unlike the huge, open 3 - blade designs.

Most of the sound generated by wind turbines is aerodynamic, caused by the movement of turbine blades through the air.

It is now in a position to export turbines across the world, with 2 of its companies in the big 5 of turbine manufacturers.

The larger a wind turbine is the more energy it can produce, but there's a problem: as the size grows so does the weight of the turbine blades which puts a limit on turbine size.

Marina has been the voice of reason for the solid local group dedicated to killing off Pac Hydro's threat of turbine terror for Keyneton (see our post here).

Wind turbines only produce electricity when there is sufficient wind to turn the blades of the turbine.

TREC have placed a plaque at the base of the turbine with the names of the people who invested in the turbine and have no hope of ever seeing a return on their money.

The maximum power output of each turbine is 2.5 MW.

The unreliability of turbine technology inhibits it from becoming the most dominate power source.

Using various materials, Lee Bul constructs a circus like landscape that echoes the industrial architecture of Turbine Hall.

For the 20th Biennale of Sydney, Lee Bul will present a new installation which expands the entirety of Turbine Hall, the largest structure on Cockatoo Island.

Confronted with the unusual size and shape of Turbine Hall — it is taller than it is wide — I suddenly became aware of the possibilities of space.

Visitors enter the Tate Modern through the great void of Turbine Hall, the former engine house of the power station the museum used to be.

At first glance, the agora of Turbine Hall cuts against the grain of such digital collectivism.

Sir Simon Rattle and the London Symphony Orchestra present two 20th - century stereophonic masterpieces in the epic space of the Turbine...

I was witnessing firsthand how the monumental scale of Turbine Hall disrupted the quiet triangulation between the viewer's body, the artwork and the gallery.

Sometimes the image is of the back wall of the Turbine Hall itself, but with its gridded form coloured in red, yellow and blue so it resembles a Mondrian.