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Major tidal turbine contract

The Neptune demonstration design is on schedule for delivery in 2010 at the UK tidal test centre located in Orkney, as a precursor to commercial deployment
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HVDC cable sets standard for transmission projects

The Netherlands and Norway are now linked, thanks to an underwater cable using high voltage direct current (HVDC) technology. Based on this success, the same solution could also be used to join the Netherlands and Denmark. Sean Ottewell reports
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Clustering feature enables integration of all facilities and control on yacht

Through clustering, control environments can reduce the high costs associated with multiple redundancies in hardware, while still ensuring server availability MORE »

Intelligent actuation allows better system control at solar power plan

Novel actuator technologies are giving the level of fine control required to ensure that industrial activities reach new levels of efficiency and cost effectiveness MORE »

// - Flat Stations increase comfort and save heating energy

// - Novel pumping technology operates by using solar energy or waste heat

// - Bearings increase reliability and performance of gearboxes

// - 'Plug and play' speed sensors are insensitive to electromagnetic fields

// - Determination of real-time tide information using GPS

// - Cable protection is stronger, lighter and more versatile

// - Vertical-axis wind turbine gets go-ahead

// - New heavy-lift offshore crane

// - How lagging impacts on temperature measurement

// - StatoilHydro publishes report into Norwegian rig's oil spill

// - Precision microwave radar-based wave and sea level sensor

// - Safety accolade for high strength fibre which is stronger than steel

// - Actuators must withstand high humidity, salt, wind and rain

// - Easier connection of measurement systems to a PC

// - Market research shows decline in demand for low-voltage drives

// - Engineering design optimisation on a Saas basis

// - Wireless access points give 40km coverage

// - Shaft couplings now available in carbon fibre

// - Record-breaking wind-powered car gives a glimpse of the future

// - Rupture disc assembly for hydraulic braking system

// - New range of manual lever hydraulic valves

// - Stand and deliver: the role of front-line fire monitors

// - Wind turbine bearings benefit from Durotect B coating

// - Electroactive polymer actuators feature microstructured surface

// - Versatile metal expands into new role in tree-top walkway

// - Magnets offer advantages as an alternative to mechanical gears

// - Investing in glass reinforced plastics for tanks and vessels

// - The electrical grid of tomorrow will be flexible and self-healing

// - Submerged tidal turbine goes with the flow on green energy

// - Stockpiling electrons: key to take-up of renewable energy?

// - Using virtual reality to design and simulate power plant performance

// - Renewable energy experts from Parker form focused team

// - IO-Link adapter connects standard sensors to IO-Link

// - Plain slewing bearings use self-lubricating polymer

// - Multi-billion dollar investment spurs US transition to smart energy grid

// - Modelling, simulating and testing of renewable energy technologies

// - State of the arc: magnetism in pipes can stop welding progress

// - WEG - An expanding global success story in power suuply, distribution, transmission, control and automation systems

// - Variable speed drives promote wind power in urban areas

 
 

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