Sentences with phrase «of turbine generators»

Trained on OSHA compliance, mechanical assembly and disassembly of turbine generators, and project management.

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-...]

Why is the power of the wind (8.5 MW) so much larger than the rated power of the turbine generator (2MW)?

Not exact matches

The gas turbine operates like a jet engine but drives a generator instead of fan blades.

As this ecosystem of connected products from pumps, rigs and generators to wind turbines, air conditioners and solar panels continues to build momentum, ServiceMax sits in a very strategic position on the Industrial Internet of Things (I - IoT) value chain.

In the months before design and construction takes place for the new 16MW microgrid — a locally sourced power grid consisting of two gas turbine generators — to be located in the downtown neighborhood of Sheridan Hollow, community groups are reaching out in search of concrete answers from project planners.

The most unique feature of the Eltona is the 10 wind turbine electricity generators located on the top of the building.

While they wouldn't divulge the exact number of employees to be laid off, 15 hundred workers at the Schenectady steam turbine and generator plant will not be affected.

A slew of new coal - fired generators are coming online, he noted, and while those plants are sleeker and more efficient, they're still not nearly as clean as gas - fired turbines or renewable power sources.

It turns out they are indispensable for a range of urgently needed green energy technologies such as wind turbine generators, low - energy lighting, fuel cells, rechargeable batteries, magnetic refrigeration and hydrogen storage.

A mixture of gas turbine and diesel generators should be used, he says, and water and air cooling systems should both be considered for diesel generators in case a shortage of air or water might be an issue at the generator location.

Blown generators, misbehaving gearboxes and damaged rotors keep turbines from maximizing the energy they draw from nature, raising the question of how to reliably maintain dozens of mammoth towers, some of which rise more than 100 meters above the ground.

Turbines wound with superconducting wire instead of regular copper could turn today's 2 to 3 - megawatt generators into 10 - megawatt powerhouses, say teams in Europe and the US that are racing to produce the machines.

The resulting heat is conveyed out of the reactor, where it turns water into steam that is used to run a turbine that drives an electric generator.

The turbines come in two main varieties of rotors — the part of the generator that catches the wind and spins — and share many of the same advantages.

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.

Savonius rotor turbines are another design, where air scoops are mounted on the shaft of the generator, forming a spinning cylinder.

GE's H - class heavy - duty gas turbines are currently the world's largest and most efficient gas turbines, capable of converting fuel and air into electricity at more than 62 percent power - plant efficiency when matched with a steam turbine generator, a setup known as combined cycle.

In wind turbines, carbon fiber's stiffness means rotors can use longer blades, thereby increasing the efficiency of each individual generator.

The company and an industrial partner expect to start side - by - side trials of turbines with and without the new generators soon and plan to commercialize their product by the end of 2009.

GE's hydro turbines and generators represent more than 25 % of the total installed capacity worldwide.

The project aims to provide an important breakthrough in offshore wind industrial solutions by designing an innovative, lightweight, robust and reliable 10 MW class offshore wind turbine based on a superconducting (SC) generator, taking into account all the essential aspects of electric conversion, integration and manufacturability.

This is because the turbine-less design of the wind belt solves all of the issues that are present in energy turbines that are used in traditional wind generators.

Now that series electric hybrid vehicles are beginning to emerge in commercial applications (first seen in buses and soon in the Chevrolet Volt), the concept of an electrically - powered vehicle that uses an on - board turbine generator seems like a practical idea.

Hong Kong - based Hybrid Kinetic Group does specialise in turbine systems however, and its website makes claims that its turbine generators are as little as a half to a third the size of a conventional piston engine, runs 20,000 hours maintenance free and can run on virtually any fuel - from petrol and diesel to hydrogen, or propane.

If we want to eliminate more of the throttle loss, maybe we need to look elsewhere, such as cylinder deactivation, leaning, or energy recovery through a intake turbine generator?

The HK GT promised a range of 621 miles, courtesy of a relatively small 20 - kWh battery and a turbine generator working as a range extender, along with a 2.9 - second launch time from a standstill to 62 mph.

From there you'll slowly build solar panels and wind turbines as well as the power cables needed to run everything, then you might add oxygen generators and a mine capable of hauling up water from beneath the red surface.

Entrance to the Tate Modern building is down a wide ramp that descends to the bottom of the Turbine Hall, a gargantuan interior space — 500 feet long, 115 feet high — that housed the generators of the long - decommissioned powerhouse.

By the way, the capacity factor only reflects the nature of the wind speed distribution, and the relative size of rotor and generator, i.e. it does not indicate some physical limit to what a wind turbine can do or something.

We started looking at all sorts of other ways to dramatically reduce our consumption of energy and to increase our production, including photovoltaic cells and a Sterling cycle generator (which is one of my own designs), and other things to augment and improve the wind turbine system.

Below we outline detailed information about generators, with many power options right up to 7 MW, as well as one of the most important components of wind turbines and motors that is used in place of generators in individually made wind turbines.

At the community or village level, the use of crop residues to power small steam turbine generators to produce electricity can deliver environmental and social benefits in addition to saving carbon.

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.

The total installed capacity of the project is 80 MW; which involves operation of 40 Wind Turbine Generators (WTGs), each with a capacity of 2 MW.

Recommended Practices for Design and Specification of Gearboxes for Wind Turbine Generator Systems.

Subcommittees: • Balance of Plant • Blades • Condition Monitoring • Data Reporting • End of Warranty • Gearbox • Generator • Operations • O&M Steering Committee • Tower • Turbine Auxiliary

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

GE is a world leader in pumped storage plant equipment and supplies in - house capabilities not only for turbines and generators but also the full electrical balance of plant.

«The fuels and waste are safe, the reactor won't need a heat exchanger and steam turbine generator, and the lasers we need can be bought off the shelf,» says Warren McKenzie, managing director of HB 11, which owns the patents to the new technology.

The results showed fossil fuel generators, in the same periods when wind turbines had been operating, fluctuated their output to match demand but did not reduce their rate of coal consumption.

Slated to commence in this year's third quarter, the scope of the Downer - GE ANZ consortium's work at the Boco Wind Farm includes construction of a 133 - kilovolt (kV) transmission line and substation; balance of plant, civil, and electrical infrastructure; erection and commissioning of the wind turbine generators.

But going from heat to electrical or mechanical energy involves considerable losses; typical steam turbine generators run at about 33 % conversion efficiency — i.e. only 1/3 of the thermal energy gets converted to electricity.

«When properly installed, wind vortex generators energize the flow around a blade's surface and reduce aerodynamic separation, improving the turbine's performance in terms of power, loads and service life.»

Located in the Bas - Saint - Laurent region, on the private and public lands of TNO Boisbouscache and the municipalities of Sainte - Françoise, Saint - Mathieu - de-Rioux, Saint - Médard (RCM Basques) and Saint - Eugene - de-Ladrière (RCM of Rimouski - Neigette), this 224.25 MW wind farm, will be comprised of 65 Vestas V117 wind turbine generators.

China is the world's top generator of electricity from wind turbines, with 145 GW of...

Their proprietary turbine generator unit, or TGU, captures the kinetic energy of moving bodies of water.

The oil - fired (liquid - fired) generators are only used minimally today, due to a combination of high relative fuel prices, air pollution restrictions, and the low efficiencies of the older steam turbines and newer internal combustion units.

The wind turbine generators used in offshore environments include modifications to prevent corrosion, and their foundations must be designed to withstand the harsh environment of the ocean, including storm waves, hurricane - force winds, and even ice flows.

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