18 八 10 Build a giant offshore wind turbines
British company is working to design a large-scale wind turbine, its wingspan of up to 275 meters length, power generation capacity will be an ordinary wind turbine 3 times.
In the current trend of promoting green energy, the UK, U.S. and Norwegian engineers is undergoing a giant home wind turbines of the contest. British Arup-designed building in the sea of this new type of turbine generators (Aerogenerator X), power generation capacity of 10 megawatts, a huge machine of its size is twice the normal model, I believe because of this global energy market New wind generator and change.
Blade span 275 m
This simulation rotation sycamore leaves inspired by the floating oil platform technology. Technological leadership in the Arup engineering company with the Rolls-Royce, Shell and BP, including several blue chip companies funded by academic groups, such detailed design of wind turbines, the wind turbine generators axis to the rotation leaves a wingspan of up to 275 meters. Preliminary estimates, after two years of testing, the first generating unit will be completed.
However, the British design team, including the design of the Garden of Eden Project and Grimshaw Architects have to heated competition of other groups. Earlier this year, and the U.S. Department of Energy’s Renewable Energy Laboratory, U.S. close to Clipper Wind Power Inc. announced that they would plan to build North East of England called “Great Britain” 10-megawatt wind turbines.
The traditional scaling of small wind turbines is the popular practice of the United Kingdom, these behemoths will be fixed on the seabed, about 600 feet above the waves.
Clipper claims that, if technically and economically feasible, each unit in its 25 years of useful life and can supply electricity generated from 5000 to 10,000 families use, the equivalent of 200 barrels of oil produced energy.
Competitive market
At the same time, Norway’s Sway company plans to build giant floating turbines, this turbine directly connected to the 100 m deep sea bed, called “mast” of the anchor. 1 Research Institute funded by the EU program also manufacture 8-10 megawatt turbines generaotor In addition, the United States and Denmark, some companies are going over from fat, 9 MW unit of work. All of these design full-size model will be completed in three years.
Offshore Engineering Cranfield University, UK head of Furge • Brennan said: “A wonderful intense athletic competition is staged. The winner of this contest will have access to the global offshore wind turbine market dominance.” Cranfield University has completed a number of wind turbines over from hair work. He said, “Britain’s offshore wind power generation may start some of Jae-man, but with four years of gas oil mining experience, we still have the opportunity to lead the world. The new vertical wind turbines is a type of oil in the semi-submerged platform technology based on the construction of and there was no tradition of wind turbines in the weight limit. newly designed turbine with its high level of conventional turbines only half. “He also added that the extension of this technology, it can produce 20 megawatts or more wind turbines.
Renewable energy future
Currently the largest installed wind turbines in the rated power of about 3 MW. In contrast, thermal power plant was already out on the gigabit level, about 180 sets of this new type of wind turbines in Scotland North Ayrshire was the equivalent of a coal-fired power plant capacity.
Engineers believe that wind power is OK, the key lies in the construction of the scale. The traditional double the size of wind turbines, in theory, can produce four times the wind, but at the same time the weight of wind turbines and the cost will increase eight-fold. As the sea to receive an endless supply of wind, the sea transportation and installation of large equipment and more convenient, and this is also a rare public objection, which is widely regarded as offshore wind power renewable energy future.
On land, the huge leaves of the transport and lifting equipment are required to hell and high water, and the approval of the plan often takes several years. However, the current installation of offshore turbines than land-based wind turbine comprising the three Zhiwu Cheng to be expensive and difficult to maintain, but also vulnerable to corrosion.
It is estimated that offshore wind power generators market will be several hundred billion dollars per year growth. Last year, the European Wind Energy Association expects Europe’s offshore wind power installed capacity will be from the current 2 megawatts of growth by the year ○ 三○ 150 GW or more years.
Although Britain has not required the construction of large-scale high wind areas and space, but the British in the Second ○ ○ 八年 in offshore wind electricity generation beyond Denmark, and to 330 units of capacity to lead the world. In addition, the United Kingdom has developed a vision of developing wind resources to plan, they expect to in the Second ○ 一 二年 made up offshore wind capacity to 12 GW. This is equivalent to 2,500 units installed in the largest 5-megawatt unit.
Greenpeace UK head of John • Shu Wen said: “We demand for energy will be counting on that here, but the key is the British Government can not cut in order to obtain short-term interests of the budget in order to hinder the development of offshore wind power.”
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