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A Chinese manufacturer is on the brink of launching what will become the largest offshore wind turbine when it’s complete. 18 MW wind turbine GE Renewable Energy announced in December that its Haliade-X, the first wind turbine capable of more than 12 megawatts (MW), received a full type certificate for operations up to 14.7 MW …

Horizontal drilling and multi-stage hydraulic fracturing operations have played critical roles in the economic production of oil and gas from unconventional reservoirs. Hydraulic fracturing helps create expansive flow paths called hydraulic fractures in targeted low-permeability hydrocarbon-bearing reservoirs through which natural gas and oil can flow from. Fig 00. First TITAN fleet with eight …

Ukraine’s Energomashspetsstal (EMSS based in Kramatorsk, Donetsk), a subsidiary of Rosatom’s engineering division Atomenergomash, has introduced a new technology for manufacturing parts of steam turbine rotors for the Akkuyu nuclear power plant, under construction in Turkey. EMSS specialists have mastered a new technology for the manufacture of shanks and discs for low-pressure rotors, enabling the …

Anton Kazansky, a postgraduate student of the Faculty of Mechanical Engineering from South Ural State University (Chelyabinsk, Russia) is developing new technology for manufacturing gas turbine engine components. The young researcher became one of the winners at the UMNIK competition and received a grant to develop the project. Anton proposed hybrid additive casting as a …

The low-frequency, inaudible sounds made by wind power stations are not damaging to human health despite widespread fears that they cause unpleasant symptoms, research published in Finland on Monday said.   A number of studies have already concluded that the audible noise from the energy-generating windmills does not cause health impacts beyond annoyance and sleep disturbance …

LOWVILLE — Judges in the state Article 10 approval process for large energy projects made recommendations that would require Invenergy’s Number Three Wind Farm to do better in a number of project areas to secure the coveted Certificate of Environmental Compatibility and Public Need before construction can begin. “The recommended Certificate Conditions… are designed to …