Italian luxury carmaker Ferrari has unveiled the V12 HY-KERS hybrid powertrain for its F70 at the 2012 Beijing Motor Show in China. The new powertrain, being mated to a double-clutch transmission, will generate an output of 800hp, while ...
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Volvo Trucks has developed a new I-See technology which operates as an autopilot and changes gears automatically and utilises gradients to save fuel. According to the truck maker, the new technology straps up the truck's own kinetic ...
The ArcelorMittal Orbit has divided opinion and to some eyes cuts a rather ungainly figure on the Olympic Park skyline.But at night it is transformed by a dynamic lighting display that renders its bizarre geometry intelligible and breathes ...
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Researchers at the Harvard School of Engineering and Applied Sciences(SEAS),collaborating with the Weizmann Institute of Science in Israel,have now demonstrated a drastically new way of achieving negative refraction in a metamaterial.For 20 ...
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What you probably know about McLaren is that it makes Formula 1 cars.What you might not know,is that it designs and makes embedded processor systems. Every car in Formula 1,every US Indy car,and every US NASCAR,has an engine control ...
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Hybrid car technology was coming to the Le Mans 24-hour endurance race at the weekend as variants of the speed-boosting Kinetic Energy Recovery System(KERS)used in Formula 1 get their first serious workout in another type of ...
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Philips Ledalite, a Philips Lighting brand, has launched the TruGroove family of recessed linear luminaires designed for installation in drywall or dropped t-grid ceilings. The series includes LED and fluorescent models, although it's the ...
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A ACCELERATOR - A pump inserted in a closed system to increase the rate of flow. AFFINITY LAWS - The laws governing the performance of rotodynamic pumps of the same design but of different sizes. They enable the performance of full-size ...
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Wind generator blades are the impetus mechanism behind a wind generator. They are large, and curved similarly to the prop blades on an airplane. Unlike a prop driven plane however, the blades on a wind generator are at the source of the ...
There are a variety of pumps that are used with mechanics to change the outcomes and development that is associated with the pumps. The mechanics are able to balance the liquids while creating a different approach to the automotive or other ...
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Centrifugal pumps are used widely in the paper, irrigation, flood control and petroleum industries as well as for the cooling of nuclear reactors. They are also used extensively for work with ordinary fluids. Centrifugal pumps operate on ...
Pneumatic cylinders (sometimes known as air cylinders) are mechanical devices which utilize the power of compressed gas to produce a force in a reciprocating linear motion. Like hydraulic cylinders, pneumatic cylinders use the stored ...
A submersible pump (or electric submersible pump (ESP)) is a device which has a hermetically sealed motor close-coupled to the pump body. The whole assembly is submerged in the fluid to be pumped. The main advantage of this type of pump is ...
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Like most pumps, a centrifugal pump converts mechanical energy from a motor to energy of a moving fluid; some of the energy goes into kinetic energy of fluid motion, and some into potential energy, represented by a fluid pressure or by ...
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