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unusual facts about Turbine, Inc.


Jay Brewer

Currently he is the Lead User Interface Artist and Designer for Infinite Crisis (video game) at Turbine, Inc. a division of Warner Bros. Interactive Entertainment.


Adaptive reuse

The wide industrial space has proven to be a worthy backdrop to modern art, with the famous turbine hall hosting artists including Olafur Eliasson, Rachel Whiteread and Ai Weiwei.

Attic

Various types of turbine ventilators and exhaust fans can also be used to assist with attic ventilation and decrease the required area of passive ventilators.

Bahamasair

In 1991, De Havilland DHC-8 turbine propellor aircraft were purchased to substitute the whole jet fleet comprising 737-200s.

Barclay Curle

In 1913, the North British Diesel Engine Works was built at the company's Clydeholm Shipyard in Whiteinch, a seminal modernist building that was influenced by Peter Behrens' AEG turbine factory in Berlin and continues to stand today.

Business in Gaming Conference

Panelists included Curt Schilling, Founder of 38 Studios; Jon Phenix of GamerDNA; Craig Alexander of Turbine, Inc.; Robert Ferrari of Sanrio Digital; Eugene Evans of Mythic Entertainment; published authors Ethan Mollick and David Edery; Doug Whatley, CEO of BreakAway Games; Bruce Roberts of BBN Technologies; Matthew Bellows of Vivox; Albert Reed, founder of Demiurge Studios; John Rizzo, CEO of Zeebo.

Calcium magnesium acetate

Integrated gasification combined cycle (IGCC) systems are used to convert coal into clean, usable fuel gas which is then used to run gas turbine systems for power generation.

China CNR Corporation

From the early 21st century onwards the group began a strategic diversification into wind turbine manufacture - its first major new facility was a 500 turbine per year capacity factory in Songyuan, (built 2009-11), established through CNR Wind Power Co..

Criterion Wind Project

A lawsuit was filed in December 2010 against the Criterion Wind Project alleging that the project must obtain an Incidental Take Permit from the U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service for any Indiana bats killed or injured by the turbine blades.

Cross-flow turbine

Vertical axis wind turbines also have the flow pass through the turbine transversely

D25

Soloviev D-25, a 1960 Soviet gas-turbine turboshaft helicopter engine

DB Class 210

However, the Deutsche Bahn decided that the successor to this locomotive should have a more powerful gas turbine and the AVCO Lycoming T 53-L13 was selected which had already been selected for use in the Bundeswehr Helicopter Bell UH-1 D.

Energy in Jordan

Plans are in place for an 80-90MW wind plant in Fujeij, near Wadi Musa, and wind turbine stations at Al Harir, Maan and Wadi Araba to produce 300-400MW of electricity.

Erich Warsitz

On August 27, 1939 Erich Warsitz undertook the world first jet flight with the Heinkel He 178 fitted with Hans von Ohain’s jet engine, the He S 3 turbine.

Garrett

Garrett AiResearch, a former manufacturer of turbochargers and turbine engines (Garrett is a registered trademark for such turbochargers now manufactured by Honeywell, Inc.)

Gas turbine-electric locomotive

Bombardier Ltd, at the Plattsburg, N.Y. plant where the Acela was produced, developed a prototype (JetTrain) which combined a Pratt & Whitney Canada PW100 gas turbine and a diesel engine with a single gearbox powering four traction motors identical to those in Acela.

HVJ Gas Pipeline

4 compressor stations at Hazira, Jhabua, Vijaipur and Auraiya houses 28 gas turbine powered compressors and 8 gas turbine powered generators to produce electrical power required for operation of the stations (total output for the 4 stations being 101,000 KW).

International Turbine Engine Corporation

The International Turbine Engine Corporation (ITEC) is a joint venture between Honeywell Aerospace (formerly Garrett AiResearch, and later AlliedSignal), and the Aerospace Industrial Development Corporation (AIDC).

Island Generating Station

The Power Station consists of one 254 MW gas turbine (supplied by ABB),

Jeff Talman

Installation sites have included Cathedral Square (Domplatte) in Cologne, Germany, St. James Cathedral in Chicago, the Bavarian Forest, a wind turbine site in Åland, Finland, the MIT Media Lab, The Kitchen, Eyebeam, bitforms gallery in New York City and others.

Jeffrey Energy Center

The unit 2 intermediate pressure turbine had to be replaced by the unit 3 turbine when the original unit was lost on a ship that sunk during the crossing of the Atlantic Ocean.

Kinmundy, Illinois

Ameren's Kinmundy Power Plant, a combustion turbine generator (CTG) power plant, is located in Kinmundy.

Lamberts, Saint Lucy, Barbados

At the windfarm area the Government and Barbados Light and Power Company has tried to replace the current experimental turbine, and continue installing the full windfarm.

Los Luchadores

The series was about a group of lucha libre wrestlers led by Lobo Fuerte (Maximo Morrone) who, along with Turbine (Levi James) and Maria Valentine (Sarah Carter), fought villains such as the Whelp (voiced by Gary Lam), the pet Chihuahua of a mad scientist who eventually becomes an evil genius through a freak accident.

Miss GEICO

It is powered by twin Lycoming T-53 turbine engines, hitting speeds in excess of 210+ mph.

Multifuel

Currently a wide range of Russian military vehicles employ multifuel engines, such as the T-72 tank (multifuel diesel) and the T-80 (multifuel gas turbine).

Napier Oryx

The engine was developed by the Aero Gas Turbine Division of Napier in conjunction with Percival, later Hunting Percival.

Offshore wind power

Turbines are much less accessible when offshore (requiring the use of a service vessel for routine access, and a jackup rig for heavy service such as gearbox replacement), and thus reliability is more important than for an onshore turbine.

PacWind

During the "I Spy Bill Nye" episode of Living With Ed, Ed Begley, Jr. has a 'SeaHawk' (500w) model turbine installed on the roof of his house.

Parnelli Jones

In 1968, Jones headed a super-roster of seven drivers signed by Andy Granatelli to drive STP Lotus 56 turbine cars in an unprecedented single-team assault on the Indianapolis 500.

Peplow

The mill contains an early water turbine dating from 1820 and spans the River Tern.

PS Jeanie Deans

She was built by the Fairfield Shipbuilding and Engineering Company, Govan, as a paddler, rather than the more popular turbine steamer, allowing her a shallow draught to visit Craigendoran and Helensburgh.

Richard C. Scherrer

After retiring to Marrowstone Island in Washington State, he worked on the development of new models for Express Aircraft, including retractable landing gear and turbine powered variants.

Robert Waring Stoddard

The Stoddards owned Wyman-Gordon, a major company that manufactured forgings for the automotive, aerospace and gas turbine industries.

Rolls-Royce Trent 900

Rolls-Royce has seven risk and revenue sharing partners on the Trent 900: Industria de Turbo Propulsores (low pressure turbine), Hamilton Sundstrand (electronic engine controls), Avio S.p.A. (gearbox module), Marubeni Corporation (engine components), Volvo Aero (intermediate compressor case), Goodrich Corporation (fan casings and sensors) and Honeywell (pneumatic systems).

Rover Company

The Land Rover became a runaway success (despite Rover's reputation for making upmarket saloons, the utilitarian Land Rover was actually the company's biggest seller throughout the 1950s, '60s, and '70s), as well as the P5 and P6 saloons equipped with a 3.5L (215ci) aluminium V8 (the design and tooling of which was purchased from Buick) and pioneering research into gas turbine-fueled vehicles.

Rye House power station

Rye House has three single-shaft Siemens V94.2 gas turbines (generating 150MW each) rotating at 3000rpm and three Babcock Energy steam generators (receiving exhaust gas at 540C) connected to one 250MW steam turbine.

Slieve Rushen Wind Farm

Slieve Rushen Wind Farm is an 18 turbine wind farm in County Fermanagh, Northern Ireland with a total capacity of 54 MW, enough to power over 30,000 homes.

Smith-class destroyer

The ships' steam turbines were direct drive and arranged in a similar manner to Sir Charles Parsons' Turbinia, with a high-pressure turbine on the center shaft exhausting to two low-pressure turbines on the outboard shafts.

Spirometry

Turbine/Stator Rotor (normally incorrectly referred to as a turbine. Actually a rotating vane which spins because of the air flow generated by the subject. The revolutions of the vane are counted as they break a light beam)

Supersonic speed

Air cooling the turbine area to allow operations at higher temperatures was a key solution, one that continued to improve through the 1950s and on to this day.

Swan Hunter

Also in 1903 the Company took a controlling interest in the Wallsend Slipway & Engineering Company, which was an early licensed manufacturer of Parsons turbine engines, which enabled the Mauretania to achieve its great speed.

Tejo Power Station operations

From the box, with the aperture controlled by the nozzles’ valves and by undergoing the Venturi effect, the steam entered the first wheel with a high enough flow rate to get the turbine to 3000 rpm.

Tom Swift and His Motor Cycle

About the same time Barton Swift was working on this design, Nikola Tesla was working to patent his own model - the bladeless turbine, which may have been the basis for Barton's work.

Turbine-class destroyer

Turbine, Aquilone and Nembo took part in the shelling of Sollum on 14 June 1940.

On 3 July 1942, while escorting three freighters from Taranto to Benghazi along with the Navigatori class destroyer Da Verrazzano, Euro and Turbine shot down two Beaufort bombers.

On 19 June 1944, at Porto Lago, she was badly damaged by an explosion, which was thought to have been sabotage.

Turbojet development at the RAE

In 1936 ARC, now under the direction of Henry Tizard, returned to the turbine engine concept after learning that Whittle was going ahead with his designs at his new company, Power Jets.

Unconventional wind turbines

This was the type used at Kaiser-Wilhelm-Koog, Germany, where a large experimental two-bladed unit—the GROWIAN, or Große Windkraftanlage (big wind turbine)—operated from 1983 to 1987.

Wind power in Oregon

Vestas, the largest wind turbine manufacturer in the world as of 2009, has its North American headquarters in Portland, Oregon.


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