wind farm Articles
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Project - CNIM
Customer: CNIM Context: CNIM is developing an innovative ship for wind farm’s maintenance in the North Sea. Challenge: In order to conceive a ship working in harsh conditions specific to the North Sea CNIM needs to know historical metocean conditions at differents geographical locations in the North Sea. Solution: Open Ocean provided CNIM with an access to the Metocean Analytics ...
By Open Ocean
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Project - Ormazabal (Velatia) - MV cells monitoring in wind farms
CUSTOMER: Ormazabal (wwww.ormazabal.com) USER: Ormazabal LOCATION: Wind farms ENVIRONMENT: Remote Installations YEAR: 2018 Monitoring system with embedded communications for Medium Voltage cells in wind turbines, for the supervision of transformation centres in wind ...
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Environmental related decision making using the Interlink Decision Making Index (IDMI)
In the traditional decision making process, at post assessment stage, 'weighting' each criterion is a very difficult process and depends heavily on the personal preference of the decision maker. There is a need to provide decision makers with a simple, less human interfered (yet still transparent) mechanism that integrates all the key criteria, while allowing a couple of them to be chosen as ...
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Geophysics: Refraction / ReMi surveys at a proposed wind farm
PROJECT: Refraction and ReMi geophysical surveys at a proposed Wind Farm LOCATION: West of Ellensburg, Washington PROJECT DESCRIPTION: Designed and performed seismic refraction / ReMi surveys at 22 proposed Wind Turbine Generator sites for the primary purpose of obtaining shear-wave (Vs) and compressional-wave (Vp) velocities. This information enabled the client (major geotechnical firm) to ...
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Noise mapping of industrial sources
Noise is often one of the environmental variables where it seems more difficult to guarantee full compliance with legal limits in complex industrial situations and/or in other multi-source environments. This paper describes the application of noise mapping techniques to industrial sources, such as factories, power plants, wind farms, showing the potential of its use, both at the design stage as ...
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7th Largest wind farm replaces mechanical for Ventus ultrasonic sensors - Case Study
296 turbines of the AES Corporation are located by Buffalo Gap, Texas, US. With a capacity of 524 MW it's the world's seventh largest wind farm to-date. The article link below provides a summary of how Performance Engineer at AES, Tristan Lee, was able to optimize the performance of its aging fleet using latest in technology, that includes the Lufft Ventus Ultrasonic Wind Speed and Wind ...
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Wind resource assessment using numerical weather prediction models and multi–criteria decision making technique: case study (Masirah Island, Oman)
The Authority for Electricity Regulation in Oman has recently announced the implementation of a 500 kW wind farm pilot project in Masirah Island. Detailed wind resource assessment is then required to identify the most suitable location for this project. This paper presents wind resource assessment using nested ensemble numerical weather prediction (NWP) model's approach at 2.8 km resolution and ...
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Transition into Risk Based Audit Reliability Compliance Using ISO31000 Methodology
HISTORY The Energy Policy Act of 2005 (the Act) created a committee to monitor and enforce reliability issues affecting the Bulk Electric System of North America. The entities that make up the compliance monitoring and enforcement body are the Federal Energy Regulatory Commission, the Electric Reliability Organization and eight regional entities. Per provisions of the Act, the body’s ...
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Planning to perfection! Cirrus Research helps The Banks Group to keep at the forefront of noisemeasurement
With the experience of over 35 years in land development, The Banks Group continues to develop land throughout England and Scotland for a variety of uses including surface coalmines, onshore wind farms, commercial and residential property schemes and sustainable wastemanagement facilities.With the aim of being one of the UK’smost successful land developers, it comes as no surprise that the ...
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Case study - Use of the Nor848A acoustic camera on wind turbines
The acoustic camera system Nor848 is a powerful tool to investigate noise sources. In realtime you listen to a beamformed audio signal so that you can hear individual sources one by one. Immediately you can identify the strongest over all noise source in a multisource environment, and you can do the same analysis for single frequencies, 1/3 or 1/1 octave bands or any given frequency range. This ...
By Norsonic AS
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Bringing aeroconservation down to Earth
From migrating birds to pollinating bees to seed-dispersing plants, thousands of species depend on the quality of the aerosphere — the layer of air that surrounds our planet. Despite this, aircraft, wind farms, drones, telecommunication towers and other anthropogenic infrastructure increasingly crowd this critical habitat. Current species conservation efforts are generally focused on ...
By Ensia
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Latin America spurs action into low-carbon development
Mexico and Dominican Republic set new targets as recently launched report asserts huge potential around low-carbon development. Two countries in Central America, Mexico and the Dominican Republic, are leading the way into renewable energy and low-carbon development. And, this is driven as much by worries over energy costs and security as it is by concerns over carbon. In the Dominican Republic, ...
By Vital Energi
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Wind turbines cause rising number of bird and bat fatalities
Wind power is one of the cleanest and safest methods of generating renewable energy. Due to the steady increase in price of nonrenewable sources, wind turbine use has increased 25% in the past decade.i While its growth has helped reduce carbon emissions and pollution, this green source of energy comes at a cost: these massive blades, slicing the air at close to 200 miles per hour, serve as giant ...
By Bird-X Inc.
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How To Be Agile And Maintain A Competitive Edge During Uncertain Times
The pandemic has changed the flow and processing of information, the nature of business and how we work, and has snarled global supply chains. For people, the impact has included working from home as the norm, an absence of physical interaction, varying travel restrictions, and strains on family ties and social mores. Many companies were caught flat-footed to the shutdown having to ...
By CSignum
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Marine food waste management - Case study
Background The Fred Olsen offshore wind focussed firm, Windcarrier, took delivery of it’s second sea borne jack up vessel, the Bold Tern in January 2013. Accompanying its sister vessel the Brave Tern, the 132m vessel set off from its shipbuilders facility in Jebel Ali to work in the north German sea to start installing 80 wind turbines at the newly designated Riffgat offshore wind farm. ...
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The Business Challenges In Subsea Industries And Digital Transformation
Safety – The Driving Factor Today’s leading business issue in subsea industries like oil and gas, offshore wind farms and environmental monitoring is – safety. How do you assess the effects of corrosion on the health of your infrastructure, and evaluate their remaining asset life or get data from submerged sensors and data loggers without the prohibitive costs and ...
By CSignum
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From electronic noses to invasive bees, 15 surprising trends for 2017
What should we be thinking about when we think about the future of biodiversity, conservation and the environment? An international team of experts in horizon scanning, science communication and conservation recently asked that question as participants in the eighth annual Horizon Scan of Emerging Issues for Global Conservation and Biological Diversity. The answers they came up, just published in ...
By Ensia
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The huge compressed air savings potential
Energy savings are getting more and more a hot topic. There are worldwide initiatives, directives and agreements to stop climate change and limit the overall CO2 emissions. Consumers are becoming critical and demand products that are produced in a sustainable way. Furthermore, many production plants are becoming more aware of the huge cost reductions involved with energy savings. So, factories ...
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The “First Mile” – The Importance Of Incorporating Data From Ocean Industries Into Global Economic And Climate Infrastructures
Almost everyone knows about the challenges the telecoms industry had with the “last mile” efforts made on land years ago to connect the main trunk fiber broadband network into the home. Enabling the last mile meant that by placing a wireless modem in the home we witnessed profound changes in life as we had known it. Before this, you were restricted where you could work or enjoy ...
By CSignum
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Use of a parking garage as a hurricane evacuation 'Refuge of Last Resort'
When a hurricane evacuation is halted, large numbers of motorists may be stranded without official shelter. Multilevel aboveground parking garages may be feasible 'Refuges of Last Resort' (RLR). Our goal was to assess the relative safety of using a parking garage as an RLR through fieldwork on the wind patterns inside a parking garage during hurricane Isabel. Mean wind speed inside the second ...
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