Sentences with phrase «on turbines designed»

«This is not the end of our research, and I think that we have more to study on the turbine design configuration and its operating conditions that would allow for enhancing the amount of energy captured by the turbine.

Overall sound levels depend on turbine design and wind speed.

Not exact matches

Floating on a hollow concrete hull, the turbine would be moored to anchors by polyester ropes designed to keep it stable even in hurricane - force winds.

Based on the findings, the researchers suggest either designing wind - turbine rotors to minimize turbulence or siting wind farms where natural atmospheric turbulence is high, such as the U.S. Midwest or large parts of northern Europe and China, to cut down on any surface - temperature impacts, if necessary.

Another key difference in ESRU's design is that the turbine has two rotors attached — one in front of the other that turn in opposite directions on a single axis.

The «Living Tower» design seen here is complete with solar panels, a rainwater purification system, and two large wind turbines on top for energy production.

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

A VAWT is a wind turbine design where the generator is vertically oriented in the tower, rather than sitting horizontally on top.

Lowering prices, but at a cost Older wind turbines typically have not been equipped or designed to support voltage levels on power lines, a critical stability factor, and weren't required to provide that service.

But that quietness comes at a price: around $ 12,000 installed on the roof and hooked to the grid compared with as little as $ 4,000 for some other small - scale turbine designs.

(2) in phase II, to develop the conceptual design for advanced high efficiency gas turbines that can achieve at least 65 percent combined cycle efficiency on a lower heating value basis.

(A) to develop the conceptual design of advanced high efficiency gas turbines that can achieve at least 62 percent combined cycle efficiency on a lower heating value basis; and

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.

When installed, the turbine array will also allow Verdant Power to collect important data about environmental impacts on fish and river sediment to improve the performance and sustainability of future designs.

Turbine engines, depending on their design, can have very few moving parts.

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Due to its specially designed turbines, the midsize gas engine's turbocharger provides response that is usually generated by twin - scroll turbines on larger engines, Opel says.

2014 Equus exterior enhancements convey a premium - sport design message, starting with a new 19 - inch turbine - blade alloy wheel design in a polished silver finish that relays motion whether parked or on the open highway.

The Audi showcar rolls on 255/30 low - profile tires mounted on 19 - inch alloy wheels with a unique turbine design.

Nineteen - inch light - alloy rims in aerodynamically optimised ten - spoke turbine wheel design created exclusively for BMW ActiveHybrid 7 as well as model designations on the luggage compartment lid, the C - pillars behind the side windows and on the door cutouts clearly set aside the hybrid models from their «regular» counterparts right from the start.

Rather than a single spiral chamber (volute) feeding exhaust gas from the exhaust manifold to drive the turbine on the turbocharger, the dual volute design has a pair of separate chambers with two exhaust gas inlets and two nozzles to drive the turbine.

On the exterior, certain sophisticated features stand out, including the 17» sports turbine - design alloy rims with titanium finish and the 225/45 tyres, the headlights with dark trim, the door mirror fairings with titanium finish, the chromed front door handles and the «Veloce» logo.

The Turbine Hall will transform itself into an alternative city for the day with a great programme of short films being screened, workshops from beatboxing and poetry to crafting, a pop - up record shop where you can create your own vinyl designs and even a red London bus being built on site.

Hop on to the Damien Hirst - designed Tate Boat, and sail down the Thames en route to Tate Modern, where Tacita Dean's Turbine Hall commission has just opened to the public.

Publishing poetry by individuals who intersect the worlds of poetry, music and art, the journal will be printed on paper designed to fly as a kite in the Turbine Hall.

He's been ramping up his own commitments since then, and pledged last year to double his investments (to $ 2 billion) on a host of energy frontiers in the next five years — from new battery and solar technologies to a safer nuclear plant design to tethered, high - flying wind turbines that might harness the power of the jet stream.

If you read my earlier posts on wind power, you'll learn that I support wind power and am aware that siting and turbine design issues have largely been solved.

Or consider WhalePower, a corporation that used the bumps found on humpback whale flippers to design more efficient industrial fans and wind turbine blades.

These projects are also slated to receive a variety of modernization and upgrade components representing the latest technological advancements, such as Siemens» Power Curve Upgrade, a combination of add - on components designed to help improve the aerodynamic performance of installed turbines.

Ea Energy Analyses, together with the working group of IEA Wind TCP Task 26, has analyzed the effects of advanced wind turbine designs on the European power system.

(A) to develop the conceptual design of advanced high efficiency gas turbines that can achieve at least 62 percent combined cycle efficiency on a lower heating value basis; and

The combination of high heat and pressure are what allowed Hofer to design a turbine that fits on a conference table but can generate 10 megawatts (MW), enough to power 10,000 U.S. homes.

Does that mean you will happily go to jail if you do not immediately design COST EFFECTIVE «power sources» that can «be switched on or off in a second» and «design boilers that» do NOT «need time to heat up or cool down, or turbines that suffer from inertia»?

AWEA Offshore Compliance Recommended Practices: for design, deployment and operation of offshore wind turbines in the United States Recommended practices on the approval process for offshore wind turbines.

To design and build the Haliade - X platform, GE Renewable Energy is relying on an unprecedented collaboration across the GE portfolio, leveraging the knowledge of GE's Onshore wind team, with 50,000 turbines in the field; the blade expertise of LM Wind Power; the GE Power and GE Aviation engineers for peer reviews of component and systems design; the Global Research Center for control systems and component validation; and GE Digital for supporting digital modelling, analytics and app development.

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These blades might look similar to the blades on a GHT (Gorlov Helical Turbine) and depending on the design might have automatic adjustable attack.

Hywind 1, designed around a hull fabricated by French contractor Technip and topped out with a 2.3 MW Siemens turbine, has performed superbly since switch on in 2009, weathering winds of 40 metres per second (m / s) and winter waves 15 metres high — and churning out close to 35GWh at an average capacity of 50 %.

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Based on more than 30 years» experience in wind business, our joint company will continue to design and manufacture wind turbines to provide wind power operators with the lowest cost of energy (COE) throughout the machines» working life.

One design, by MIT professor Charles Forsberg, called the AHTR, combines a flouride - salt - cooled reactor with a gas turbine; one variation on it incorporates injecting gas to the turbine for high temperature turbine generation, so that the power plant can operate for both baseload and peak power.

The basic design of this particular SWASH vessel is to have wind turbines located to the rear (or front, or front and rear) of the vessel and solar panel arrays mounted high on a lightweight structure as shown (above), several meters above the sea, with one fixed (central) panel and two moveable wings.

It includes major support for R&D for both radical new clean technologies like vehicle batteries that travel 500 miles or more on a single charge as well as includes steady incremental improvements in existing designs like on - shore wind turbines.

On the energy front, for example, an advanced - design wind turbine can produce as much energy as an oil well.

Seems it has hit on an optimum design compromise between vertical and horizontal bladed turbines.

Abengoa Solar will use a so - called «solar trough design» for the plant - which consists of rows upon rows of parabolic mirrors that focus the sun's rays on water - filled tubes to heat them and produce steam to power electricity - generating turbines (i.e. a solar thermal system).

A 18 - foot - wide helix turbine specially designed for urban spaces has been installed on the roof of Progressive Field, ready to begin churning out energy on opening day.

I've previously covered other designs of bladeless wind turbines here on TreeHugger, with the comments mostly resembling that of Eeyore saying, «It'll never work,» but like many innovations intended for established industries, that's par for the course.

The wind turbine designs are based on very low wind speeds in order to improve capacity factor, and be used in conjunction with hydro - electricity / pumping schemes storing / generating electricity as currently used, also in South Africa.

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.