Sentences with phrase «turbine blade design»

Key engine features for the Red Sport 400 version include a compact, lightweight aluminum - alloy engine block and cylinder heads, Gasoline Direct Injection system, optimized turbine blade design, an optical turbo speed sensor, high capacity air - to - water intercooler system with dual water pumps, electronic wastegate actuator, e-motor valve timing control and an integrated exhaust manifold.

France is building the world's first wind farm with turbine blades designed to minimize interference with radar systems, using technology partially inspired by stealth warplanes.

Not exact matches

The differences between wind turbine and ceiling fan blades arise from the contrasting design criteria: the wind turbine is intended to capture high - velocity wind to generate electricity efficiently; the ceiling fan needs to move air at low velocity with inexpensive components.

«These owl - inspired leading edge serrations, if applied to wind turbine blades, aircraft wings or drone rotors, could provide a useful biomimetic design for flow control and noise reduction.

Taylor says that the twin - rotor design is intriguing but questions whether the blades rotating in different directions might mitigate the turbine's efficiency in capturing the full strength of the tide.

Turbines designed for Puget Sound have no exposed blade tips, run at low speed, require no mechanical lubrication or seabed drilling, and are designed to leave the seabed undisturbed, according to the Snohomish County utility.

While there are many VAWT designs, the one used in this study is called the straight - blade Darrieus type or H - rotor turbine.

The OIST design is a hybrid of a kite and a wind turbine: an ocean - current turbine is anchored to seabed with a line and floats in the current while water rotates its three blades.

To compensate, engineers design turbine hardware to have adjustable blade angles to shed surplus wind energy or to capture more.

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 Equus was refreshed in 2014 with a new front bumper fascia and grille design, side mirrors, 19 - inch turbine - blade polished alloy wheels and standard LED fog lamps.

Updates for 2014 include revised front fascia and grille designs, new side mirrors and taillights graphics, standard LED fog lights, new polished - silver 19 - inch turbine - blade wheels, and a new Night Shadow Brown color.

The wheels are an imposing 23 inches in diameter, and the multiple spokes are meant to mirror the design of turbine blades.

(I have a design I call the Cooke AquAero Motor which is a vertical axis, cyclo - turbine with 2 - 3 independently articulating blades that actually can extract power through 70 % of it's rotation, though the efficiency is around 28 - 36 %.)

With two sets of blades, the turbine is designed to be able to generate power from both ebb and flood tides, and is designed to be able to withstand the marine conditions off Scotland.

Calling it Tubercle Technology, the company has designed wind turbine blades that utilize the same physical streamlining properties to help them be quieter, more reliable when winds fail, are perform better in turbulent winds.

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

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.

Having trouble posting this comment fer some reason... Wind turbines are also designed so that the blades lock down in windspeeds above 16MPH, to prevent the blades being damaged (or destroyed.)

This high performance tip is designed to integrate into standard wind turbine blades, creating a «hybrid blade» that upgrades performance whilst using existing manufacturing infrastructure.

By tightly integrating blade and turbine design, GE hopes to enhance the performance of its turbines, reduce the cost of energy and boost its $ 9 billion renewable energy business.

Ohio House passes legislation Jim Provance — The Blade — November 22, 2014 COLUMBUS — Ohio's fledgling wind energy industry is balking at a largely ignored provision of a massive environmental bill overwhelmingly approved in the House this week, arguing it is designed to throw one more wrench into its 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.

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

The two and three blade prop wind turbine designs used by the wind power industry today are responsible for most of these deaths.

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The company successfully validated multiple AM printed turbine blades with a conventional blade design at full engine conditions — the components were tested at 13,000 revolutions per minute... Read more →

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The Danish company has begun sales of its V60 - 850 kW turbine, which has blade designs and temperature control systems to adapt to the tough winters in Inner Mongolia.

* Turbine blades are formed of durable and lightweight composites * Rotational molding processes used with high - strength thermoplastic materials * Standard construction practices used to inexpensively build, deploy, and maintain nacelles * Assembled with carefully selected off - the - shelf drive and generating components including brushless generators, high reliability gear trains, and double graphite / ceramic face seals for rotor shafts * Self - cleaning screen for horizontally deflecting debris and fish away from turbine blades (also designing screenless, debris immune, and more fish - friendly turbine) * Yaw bearing for bidirectional operation in tidalTurbine blades are formed of durable and lightweight composites * Rotational molding processes used with high - strength thermoplastic materials * Standard construction practices used to inexpensively build, deploy, and maintain nacelles * Assembled with carefully selected off - the - shelf drive and generating components including brushless generators, high reliability gear trains, and double graphite / ceramic face seals for rotor shafts * Self - cleaning screen for horizontally deflecting debris and fish away from turbine blades (also designing screenless, debris immune, and more fish - friendly turbine) * Yaw bearing for bidirectional operation in tidalturbine blades (also designing screenless, debris immune, and more fish - friendly turbine) * Yaw bearing for bidirectional operation in tidalturbine) * Yaw bearing for bidirectional operation in tidal waters

The Vortex wind generator represents a fairly radical break with conventional wind turbine design, in that it has no spinning blades (or any moving parts to wear out at all), and looks like nothing more than a giant straw that oscillates in the wind.

Advancements undertaken by manufacturers include designing taller towers and turbines with longer and lighter blades allowing rotor diameters to exceed 100 meters, larger than the wingspan of the largest commercial jets.

They also claim the design overcomes many of the inherent problems associated with large horizontal axis turbines: One reason [for problems] is that the weight of the turbine blades becomes prohibitive.

The final design is different than most turbines with a different blade shape.

The Hales team says that «Many tidal turbine designs being tested at the present time have very slim propeller or foil blades which require water flow speeds in the 3 to 4 m / s range to be effective, these tidal speeds only happen in a very few locations around the world, limiting their deployment».

At the core is a 360 ° omnidirectional speaker with turbine blade - inspired design and deep bass subwoofer embedded inside the Levitation Station.

«Energy production relies on mechanical engineers to design, build and maintain structures and systems that collect, contain and transmit vast amounts of energy, from wind turbine blades, gearboxes and towers to high pressure boilers and nuclear reactors.»