Sentences with phrase «of turbine sizes»

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The goal: A commercially viable prototype within two years, and ultimately a machine that is 30 percent cheaper than a conventional wind turbine of the same size.

These offshore wind projects represent over 5,000 MW of offshore development with turbine sizes ranging from 3.0 to 6.0 MW, along with a transmission project that could carry up to 7,000 MW.

«New off - shore turbines, with blades the size of the London Eye, need to be built and launched from modern docks, so we need to upgrade our shipyards to take advantage of this massive opportunity,» he said.

And so, Sritharan and Schmitz watched as Doug Wood, engineering specialist and manager of Iowa State's Structural Engineering Research Laboratory, typed in the commands for the lab's hydraulic equipment to push or pull with bigger loads on a full - size test segment of a 100 - meter concrete wind turbine tower.

That's impossible onshore, where manufacturers are constrained by the size of roads and bridges over which the turbine parts will have to be transported.

This size wind turbine will have widely varying loads (overturning and horizontal) as the wind speed rises and falls, so the maintenance of the air gap would be extremely difficult.

«For the size of equipment, a modern wind turbine — typically 250 feet across, blade tip to blade tip — can generate a megawatt and a half to 2 megawatts at peak output,» he says.

Instead of starting with a full sized model of the turbine, the team built smaller scale versions of the turbines, of which Larry Page stressed that they needed to crash «at least five» to speed up the learning curve.

The techniques for achieving energy efficiency are many: daylighting strategies that determine the orientation of a building, and the size and placement of windows; automated controls that measure daylight levels and regulate the amount of artificial light needed; and alternative energy sources such as solar panels, wind turbines and geothermal wells.

The Volt model could very well be the standard of the future: a smartly sized battery backed by a frugal range extender, whether that's a diesel, a turbine, or a gas engine.

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.

Mobility may be enhanced in future tanks by the use of diesel - electric or turbine - electric series hybrid drives — first used in a primitive, gasoline - engined form with Porsche's Elefant German tank destroyer of 1943 — improving fuel efficiency while reducing the size and weight of the power plant.

This makes it possible to substantially reduce the size of the turbine wheels, and to reduce the mass moment of inertia by approximately 40 percent.

Now, starting April 13, art pilgrims will find the institution vastly changed as the result of a 10 - year, $ 500 million renovation project — one that both modernized the museum, including the creation of a 24,000 - square - foot, Turbine Hall - sized public space (a current must - have for art capitals), and brought it back to its original grandeur by stripping away ill - considered additions and ornaments incurred over the years.

But infantilism has been revelling in the Turbine Hall before because artists are children at heart, and when they are invited to do something in a space such as this one, which is almost the size of a football pitch and looks so skateboard - friendly, they let rip with their most ambitious childish dreams and nightmares.

Never an easy task with the enormous size and popularity of the Turbine Hall, Cruzvillegas also follows in the footsteps of some particularly fierce art giants, including Louise Bourgeois, Olafur Eliasson and Ai Weiwei.

The problem with the turbine hall is its vast size, but also the awkwardness of the space, approached, as it is, by a long ramp and bisected by a dark bridge and stairs.

It will get the crowds, of course - everything in the Turbine Hall does - and some people will be so impressed by the size of the collection of public sculpture and the drama of the setting, so determined to enjoy the latest the 21st century has to offer, they will kid themselves it's worthwhile.

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.

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.

Back of the envelope: the current common turbine size is 3 MW, so that makes 3,000,000 MW for such a windfarm.

VAWTs offer three main advantages: a lower turbine center of gravity; reduced machine complexity (they don't need a control system to rotate the nacelle and point it in the direction of the wind); and better scalability to very large sizes.

Offshore wind turbines keep getting bigger and bigger, and the size of new and proposed offshore wind energy projects is increasing, so it stands to reason that a corresponding increase will be seen in the number of wind turbine technicians needed to maintain and repair them.

But the efficiency of wind turbines is almost at its maximum already for any given size, since we also understand the physics of wind blades very well.

During the relatively short construction interval — which can last from six months to a year, depending on the size and scope of the project — the wind turbines are touched more than at any other time throughout the life of the project.

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A key change will be in the size of wind turbines, according to experts (Figure 1).

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.

In April 2003, Macalester College installed a 10 kilowatt BWC Excel wind turbine — the first of its size in the City of St. Paul and one of the first on any college campus, which provides an educational opportunity for students, staff and faculty learn about wind energy, wind patterns, geography and the practicality of wind turbines in urban areas.

Researchers say that the industry of onshore wind turbines can «double in size each year — and still maintain an energy surplus.»

This relatively recent phenomenon coincides remarkably with the growth in size of wind turbines from 50m in height to over 150m, taller than the Sydney Harbour Bridge.

For Minnesotans, Windustry has developed a small wind calculator that compares 3 well - regarded turbines of different sizes, includes assumptions about pricing as of 2012, and incorporates Minnesota's net metering law.

But there are lots and lots of sites in rural and far suburban areas where small turbines or even medium - sized or larger turbines at commercial or industrial sites would make economic sense to meet electricity demands.»

ABC on - line news, Nick Harmson, reported on 2018/02/12 that the facility would be developed by infrastructure company Hydrogen Utility (H2U), it was expected to cost $ 117.5 m, would include a 15 MW electroliser (note that it was later decided to double the size of this) as well as an ammonia production facility, a 10 MW gas turbine and a 5 MW hydrogen fuel cell.

Measuring the size of a ceiling fan and priced a little more than the latest Apple iPhone, this wind turbine can generate three to five kilowatt hours of electricity daily — enough...

Through funding with the Department of Energy, small - to medium - sized wind turbines are becoming more economically feasible.

By awarding contracts through the National Renewable Energy Laboratory under the DOE - funded Distributed Wind Competitiveness Improvement Project (CIP), the goal is to make wind energy from small - and medium - sized turbines cost competitive with other distributed generation technologies and increase the number of wind - turbine designs certified to national safety and performance standards.

Today's typical 1.6 - megawatt GE turbine, he said, sweeps «an area the size of a football field.»

The size of the proposed development has been greatly reduced over several years, at one point about 46 turbines were proposed.

The increased sizes and capacity ratings of the 560 new offshore wind turbines in Europe have increased the average size of installed wind turbines to 5.9 MW, a 23 % increase over 2016, according to the WindEurope report.

The hellish heat and pressure turn CO2 into a hot, dense liquid, allowing Hofer to shrink the turbine's size and potentially increase its efficiency a few percentage points above where state - of - the - art steam systems operate today.

Some criticized that paper for relying too heavily on adding turbines to existing hydroelectric dams — which the group suggested in order to increase peak electricity production without changing the number or size of the dams.

The size of the turbines boggles the mind, let alone the fact that they actually float.

There has been a steady growth in the size and output of wind turbines, now available with capacities of up to 5 MW for offshore machines.

Rooted in core knowledge of modern turbines and wind parks, combined with wind and irradiation resources and / or electricity storage, Vestas possess the know - how necessary to right - size hybrid power plants relative to project business case, while fulfilling grid requirements.

End of batteries for industrial - size wind turbines.

In fact, a few years ago, a battery the size of a trailer installed next to a wind turbine on Hawaà ¯ to store its intermittent energy caught fire by itself and burned to the ground.

A new material could be the answer to the current maxing out of wind turbine size caused by blade weight.

A flyer that the opponents dropped in letter boxes in Crystal Brook in mid July provided only one reason to stop the project, the size and appearance of the turbines.

At a density of, very roughly, 50 acres per megawatt, typical for wind farms, that many turbines would require a land area half the size of the British Isles, including Ireland.