Sentences with phrase «turbine fan blades»

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.

Not exact matches

The gas turbine operates like a jet engine but drives a generator instead of fan blades.

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.

Parker's initial blade prototype looked a lot like a wind turbine blade, but the end result (because of manufacturing, safety and operating concerns) was a hybrid between a standard ceiling fan blade and a wind turbine blade.

Inc., which has a manufacturing facility in Livermore and has licensed an LLNL laser technology for peening jet engine fan blades and turbines, and other aircraft structures, in one of the Laboratory's most successful technology commercialization partnerships.

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