Sentences with phrase «turbine blades used»

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The technology overlaps are valuable: For example, carbon - fiber - reinforced composites developed for jet - engine fan blades are used in GE's wind - turbine fan blades, and ceramics developed for electricity - generating turbines are used in jet engines.

Such high - efficiency energy conversion dictates the use of lift - type turbine blades, similar to airplane wings, of twisted and tapered airfoil shapes.

A combination of structural and economic considerations drives the use of three slender blades on most wind turbines — using one or two blades means more complex structural dynamics, and more blades means greater expense for the blades and the blade attachments to the turbine.

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.

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

Sandia senior researcher Dennis Roach led development of a reference sample library used to train those who perform nondestructive inspection of wind turbine blades.

Hu will use the tunnel as part of a $ 663,000 grant from NASA to study icing of aircraft wings, part of a $ 360,000 grant from the National Science Foundation to study icing of wind turbine blades and part of a $ 20,000 seed grant from Iowa State's Institute for Physical Research and Technology to develop new technology to study aircraft icing.

Researchers have taken a key step toward helping wildlife coexist more safely with wind power generation by demonstrating the success of an impact detection system that uses vibration sensors mounted to turbine blades.

He notes the new technique could someday be used on jet turbine blades, for example, to more accurately assess their integrity and durability.

Turbines create emissions - free electricity by using the wind to turn propeller - like blades around a rotor.

In wind turbines, carbon fiber's stiffness means rotors can use longer blades, thereby increasing the efficiency of each individual generator.

Like other manufactured products that use sandwich panel construction to achieve a combination of light weight and strength, turbine blades contain carefully arrayed strips of balsa wood from Ecuador, which provides 95 percent of the world's supply.

In some engines, especially for turbine engine blade cooling and liquid rocket engine cooling, fuel is used as a coolant, as it is simultaneously preheated before injecting it into a combustion chamber.

-- Isuzu COA III all - terrain vehicle with full - time four - wheel drive and a turbocharged engine using ceramic valves, cylinders liners and turbine blades.

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

One example is Strat Aero, which uses unmanned drones to perform turbine - blade maintenance inspections.

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.

What makes cobalt so valuable is its high melting point (1,494 degrees centigrade) which makes it a perfect material for making superalloy metals for use in everything from turbine blades to prosthetics.

In addition, all connective fittings have also been installed, which will be used later to mount the tower with its turbine nacelle and rotor blades.

These control methods will be used to increase the turbines» power production and efficiency and reduce the stress placed on the blades by strong winds.

Thousands of GE turbines on land as well as in the sea are already using LM Wind's blades.

About one in five of the world's turbines use LM Wind Power blades.

Each as tall as the Statue of Liberty, the turbines use 240 - foot - long blades made by the Danish company LM Wind Power attached to a 6 - megawatt Haliade generator made by GE Renewable Energy in France.

Recently these farms have become enormous, using large wind turbines, blades, and towers.

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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Siemens has achieved a breakthrough by finishing its first full load engine tests for gas turbine blades completely produced using Additive Manufacturing (AM) technology.

In the western United States, golden eagles may be particularly susceptible to wind turbine blade collision by wind power facilities constructed in areas of high eagle use.

The CAD programs used to construct i.e. a turbine blade and the feedback into CFD to get optimization.

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Surveillance radar, used to detect aircraft and display their position on radar screens, can also show returns from other moving sources such as cars, trains and blades of a wind turbine.

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Petrochemicals are used to produce the glass - reinforced polymers used for turbine blades: petrochemical industries are notorious for being polluting.

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Current wind turbines are very inefficient as they do not make the best use of the surface area that the rotor blades operate in.

Visualization created using Yellowstone Contour lines and isosurfaces provide valuable information about turbulence and aerodynamic drag in this visualization of air flow through the blades of a wind turbine, the product of a simulation on the NCAR - Wyoming Supercomputing Center's Yellowstone system.