Sentences with phrase «on turbine size»

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.

Not exact matches

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.

By comparison, today's simple cycle power plants (gas turbine generator only) operate with efficiencies ranging between 33 and 44 percent depending on the size and model.

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.

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.

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.

Investment has picked up sharply in recent years and, with fewer restrictions on size and height than their onshore counterparts, offshore wind turbines are becoming giants.

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.

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.

Wind comes in around 20 - 35 %, depending on site and turbine size.

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.

You will find good material here on how to evaluate your site for wind power (very important), how wind systems work, how to size a wind system for your needs, and lots of information on DIY and homemade wind turbines and commercial systems.

Supplanting the company's current 3.6 megawatt turbines, these giant energy factories should make wind power more economical, since the major cost of building and installing offshore wind farms does not depend primarily on a turbine's size, but on the number of them that need to be erected.

«The output of a wind turbine depends on the turbine's size and the wind's speed through the rotor,» according to the European Wind Energy Association (EWEA).

Compact, Cost - Effective, And Consistent What Rashidi's design does have going for it is its compact size, cost - effectiveness, and ability to generate power consistently in an urban environment where wind speeds can be too variable and turbulent to make traditional turbines truly effective, as TreeHugger Mat wrote in a previous article about using the technology on city roofs.

Size does matter (see www.wind-watch.org/documents/low-frequency-noise-from-large-wind-turbines-2/) as the larger more powerful turbines emit proportionately more LFN, the adverse effect on the neighbours from this LFN is much greater.

I called Ben Hoen, a research scientist at Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory to get the latest numbers on wind turbine sizes.

Designed for home use by Urban Green Energy of New York, the turbines can be installed on a roof, are made of a combination of galvanized steel and carbon filters, can be painted to match the roof's color, and come in sizes from 5» 2» to 14» 4».

The evidence showed that this was a quiet neighborhood and that the wind turbine would substantially impact the neighborhood, not only because of its noise and size but also the negative financial impact it would have on the properties.