Sentences with phrase «turbine blade diameters»
Not exact matches
After the powerful current of the East River — which is actually a tidal channel — damaged the rotors and broke off some of the original fiberglass and steel blades, the company earlier this month whittled its test bed down to two turbines with new aluminum — magnesium blades 16 feet (five meters) in diameter.
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The next step will be to prove the technology at wind - turbine scale, with blades that can have diameters of up to 400 feet.
The wheels are an imposing 23 inches in diameter, and the multiple spokes are meant to mirror the design of turbine blades.
It would take 7.35 of the old 60 ft. blade diameter turbines for each new 160 ft. blade diameter.
The turbine blades are 246 - feet long with a rotor diameter of 505 feet.
The correct ratio is 7.35 of the old 60 ft. blade diameter turbines for each new 160 ft. blade diameter.
Modern 8 - megawatt turbines are 200 meters (656 feet) above the waves; their rotating blades sweep across a 164 - meter (538 - foot) diameter.
The turbine has a rotor blade diameter of 80 metres and so the rotors sweep an area of PI × (diameter / 2) 2 = 5026 m2.
The authors simply dismissed actual reported field CFs as irrelevant and not valid because they allegedly apply only to short, «low - power turbines with small diameters in slow - wind areas [less than 7 to 7.5 m / s annual winds]...» The authors, however, fail to explain why the higher power windmills with large diameter blades were not available before, if indeed this combination is wind energyís economic panacea.
The turbine stands atop a 170 foot tubular tower and has three blades, spanning a diameter of 150 feet.
Picture a circle with the same diameter as the blades of a wind turbine.
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.
The turbines are rated at 5MW, and have a rotor blade diameter of 126 metres (413 feet)-- the size of two soccer fields when spread out.