Abstract: Proposed is a wind turbine blade with a lightning protection receptor. The wind turbine blade with a lightning protection receptor is a technology that allows for excellent lightning capture rate for both negative and positive lightning by improving lightning measures for conventional wind turbines, which are vulnerable to positive lightning, in line with the increasing wind turbine heights for large-scale power generation and the trend toward offshore wind power, and that minimizes post-repair/supplementary measures by limiting blade damage/coating peeling due to lightning strikes to a narrow area, unlike in the conventional case where damage or peeling of the coating occurs over the entire area of a blade when struck by lightning on an edge wire inserted into the lateral inner side of the blade.

Abstract: Disclosed are a centrifugal fan blade and a fluid heat exchange device. The centrifugal fan blade includes a hub and a plurality of blades. The plurality of blades are provided at intervals along a periphery of the hub. The plurality of blades include a body part and a bending part. One end of the body part is connected to the hub, and the bending part is provided at an end of the body part away from the hub. An orientation and a rotation direction of the bending part are the same, and an angle is formed between the bending part and the body part.

Abstract: A repair process includes providing a gas turbine engine article that has an elastomeric coating that has an eroded region, plasma etching the elastomeric coating in the eroded region, and applying an elastomeric repair coating on the eroded region.

Abstract: A “hydraulic rotating machinery” (“HRM”) system provides optimal energy efficiency over a very wide conditions of service (“COS”) range by configuring a plurality of variable speed HRMs in a “cluster.” The HRMs are interconnected by one or more valves that can be actuated by a controller to configure and vary a flow path through which a process fluid flows from an inlet to an outlet. By actively selecting which of the HRMs are included in the flow path, the interconnections therebetween, and the operating speeds thereof, the controller ensures that the HRM cluster continues to operate at optimal efficiency as the COS fluctuates over a very wide range. The HRMs can be identical to each other, or can vary in design. The HRM system can be implemented for storage and retrieval of green energy. The controller can also monitor the health of the cluster and/or of the associated process.

Abstract: The invention relates to a rotor for a fluid pump, in particular for use in the medical sphere, the rotor being compressible for bringing to the place of use and thereafter being expandable. The compressibility is assisted by the provision of cavities, in particular also production of the rotor at least partially from a foam.

Abstract: A propulsion unit with a propeller includes a nacelle; a propeller rotatably mounted in the nacelle by means of a hub. The propeller has blades mounted in a blade cuff that is pivotable about a pitch axis relative to the hub. Each blade is pivotable relative to the cuff about a folding axis. A folding device includes an actuator for folding the blades. The folding device includes a control member rotationally affixed to the blade cuff and driven by the actuator. A connecting rod is pivotably mounted, on the one hand, on a root the associated blade and, on the other hand, on the movable control member.

Abstract: The invention relates to an assembly for a turbomachine, comprising an exhaust cone (18) and an exhaust case having an annular inner shell, the exhaust cone (18) and the exhaust case extending about an axis (X), the exhaust cone (18) having a radially outer skin (31) extending in the projection of said inner shell and a radially inner skin (30) defining a chamber (32) with the outer skin (31), the upstream end (33) of the cone (18) being fastened to the inner shell (19) via connecting lugs (39), the assembly comprising an annular fairing (29) located radially outside said lugs (39) and extending axially between the inner shell (19) of the exhaust case (17) and the outer skin (31) of the exhaust cone (18), said fairing (29) extending in the projection of said inner shell (19) and of the outer skin (31), the assembly being characterized in that the fairing (29) is segmented and consists of multiple angular segments (42) arranged circumferentially end to end.

Abstract: A blade for a rotor of a wind turbine, the blade comprising: an inboard portion; an outboard portion connected to the inboard portion, wherein the outboard portion is deflectable by a variable sweep angle in an edgewise direction of the blade; and a passive mechanism configured to adjust the sweep angle in response to an amount of flapwise moment acting on the blade, such that the magnitude of the sweep angle increases in response to an increased flapwise moment, and decreases in response to a decreased flapwise moment.