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unusual facts about Turbines



Altamont Pass Wind Farm

The small turbines used at Altamont are dangerous to various raptors that hunt California Ground Squirrels in the area.

Ardrossan Wind Farm

In the Hurricane Bawbag storms of December 2011, one of the turbines of the wind farm catastrophically failed in a ball of fire, widely reported by local media.

Black Law Wind Farm

Scottish Power is expected to complete a second phase which will see the installation of a further 12 turbines.

Borodino-class battlecruiser

There were suggestions to improve the machinery with geared turbines, turbo-electric drive, or Föttinger's hydraulic transmission, but these were more theoretical than practical.

Chalmers, Indiana

Following the construction of wind turbines near I-65, the traffic of the Chalmers Interstate exit increased substantially.

Chamber Hall Power Station

When commissioned in 1912, the station had two John Musgrave & Sons steam turbines of the Zoelly impulse type, each driving a Siemens Brothers 2,000kW alternator, generating a three-phase output of 6,000V at 50Hz.

Channel Dash

Gneisenau hit one mine off Terschelling, but suffered little damage; the magnetic mine exploded some metres off the ship, making a small hole on the starboard side and temporarily knocking one of her turbines out of action.

Combined gas and steam

E.g. Celebrity Cruises' Millennium and other ships of her class use turbo-electric plants with two General Electric LM2500+ gas turbines and one steam-turbine.

Cormainville

It consists of 30 Vestas V80-2MW wind turbines with a combined nameplate capacity of 60 MW.

Easington Gas Terminal

As part of the facility, two RB211-GT61 gas turbines, built by Rolls Royce Energy Systems in Mount Vernon, Ohio, were installed in a £12.7m contract.

Elsässische Maschinenbau-Gesellschaft Grafenstaden

In 1826, André Koechlin founded the engineering works of Andre Koechlin & Cie in Mulhouse, which made steam engines, turbines, spinning and weaving machinery and, from 1839, steam locomotives too.

Enercon

Other differences in Enercon's wind turbines are their distinctive drop-shaped generator housings (designed by Lord Norman Foster) and their towers, which are painted with green rings at the base to blend in with their surroundings.

Enercon E-126

In September 2010, the world first wind farm, using 11 turbines of this model, was completed in Estinnes, Belgium.

F.W. Olin Hall

Apparently, wind turbines in the Altamont Pass in central California have killed a disproportionate number of raptors relative in comparison with other bird species.

Geevagh

These electricity generating turbines - owned by Orliven Ltd - are each capable of producing 0.85MW of power, and are manufactured by the Spanish company Gamesa.

Halol

(MI-Division), Integra Hindustan Control Ltd, SETCO Automotive, CEAT Tyres, Raychem RPG, GUNNEBO, Panchmahal Steel,Ambe International,EBENEZER CAST, Grandtech Engineering works, Yadav Engineering works,Gamesa Wind Turbines Pvt Ltd, Windar Renewable Energy, Siemens,Spire Industries Pvt.

Horonobe, Hokkaido

In total its estimated that the wind turbines in Horonobe-chō generate 50 Gigawatt hour of electricity annually and this is supplied to Hokkaido Electric Power Company for distribution.

Humber Gateway Wind Farm

--Vestas ? --> wind turbines, with the electrical cable making landfall at Easington, and connecting to the National Grid, at Salt End, on the eastern outskirts of Kingston upon Hull.

Janice L. Peaslee

In 2005 Peaslee supported the installation of five wind turbines in Sheffield, Vermont; a town not in here district.

Kwinana Power Station

Verve is expanding the power station with the addition of two LMS100 gas turbines.

Lempster, New Hampshire

Lempster is home to New Hampshire's first wind farm, providing a total of 24 MW from 12 turbines, which started operation in 2008.

Llanfynydd

The protest went ahead despite assurances from the local council and from the Spanish-owned developers Gamesa Energy UK (part of Gamesa Corporación Tecnológica) that the single wind turbine planned was intended merely as a test to see how suitable the area might be for wind turbines in the future.

Manjil and Rudbar Wind Farm

Initially in 2007, twenty one turbines were installed in the city of Manjil while four were operational in the neighboring city of Rudbar.

Moorina Power Station

The turbines themselves were built by J.M. Voight (now Voith AG), of Heidenheim, Germany, while the alternators themselves were built by Allgemeine Elektrizitäts-Gesellschaft (AEG), of Berlin.

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.

Peter Bezukladnikov

Managed successful implementation of the first complete overhaul of large gas turbines in Russian power industry, involving experts of Italian company ANSALDO .

Peterhead Power Station

The three 277 MWe V94.3A (now called SGT5-4000F) Siemens gas turbines provide a CCGT-type system of power generation, with three Doosan Babcock heat recovery steam generators providing steam to one (older) steam turbine.

Queen Elizabeth Power Station

Boilers were supplied by FW, Babcock and Wilcox, and Innovative Steam Technologies; while the turbines were supplied by Brown, Boveri & Cie, English Electric and Hitachi Canadian Industries.

River-class destroyer

Eden was given turbines to test their viability for future destroyer classes, with three propellers on each of her two shafts, to transmit the power at the high revolutions of the direct drive turbines, a feature of the earlier Turbinia.

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.

Salkhit

Clean Energy, a unit of Newcom Group built the US$122 million "Salkhit Wind Farm" in the region using GE wind turbines.

Silston Cory-Wright

On behalf of Cory-Wright and Salmon, he supervised the installation of Escher Wyss turbines at Lake Coleridge, and many hydroelectric units for English Electric.

Single-phase generator

The station takes water from elevated Lake Walchensee to drive eight turbines that drive the generators.

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.

Spy Hill Power Plant

The Power Station consists of two turbines (supplied by General Electric LM6000), that operate in a simple cycle configuration.

Steel casting

Examples of items that are steel castings include: hydroelectric turbine wheels, forging presses, gears, railroad truck frames, valve bodies, pump casings, mining machinery, marine equipment, Turbocharger Turbines and engine cylinder blocks.

TGV 001

Each locomotive was equipped with two turbines (TURMO III G then TURMO X), also used in the Super Frelon helicopters.

Unconventional wind turbines

Discovery Tower is an office building in Houston, Texas, that incorporates 10 wind turbines in its architecture.

Whittle Peninsula

Named in 1977 by the United Kingdom Antarctic Place-Names Committee (UK-APC) after Sir Frank Whittle, Air Commodore, RAF, British pioneer of gas turbines for jet propulsion of aircraft from 1937.

Wind power in Ohio

The North Coast entertainment complex receives 1.5 million visitors per year, and the wind turbine appears regularly on local news broadcasts and Cleveland Browns NFL broadcasts, making it one of the world's most-viewed wind turbines.

Yellowhead Power Station

General Electric LM6000 simple cycle gas turbines for a total capacity of 138-megawatt commissioned in 2010.


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