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Offshore Repair Platform, Adjustable Rotor Shaft, Glowing Tires
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This week we discuss Flender’s adjustable rotor shaft assembly, designed to mitigate gear misalignment issues. Then Dolfines’ innovative solution for onsite repairs of floating wind platforms using a telescoping crane. Finally, we highlight Goodyear’s fun and practical glow-in-the-dark tires, which can help locate your vehicle in the dark and add a unique aesthetic touch.
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Allen Hall: Welcome to Power Up, the uptime podcast focused on the new hot off the press technology that can change the world. Follow along with me, Allen Hall, and IntelStor’s Phil Totaro, as we discuss the weird, the wild, and the game changing ideas that will charge your energy future.
All right, our first idea of the week is an adjustable rotor shaft assembly for wind turbines. And as we know, there’s all kinds of issues with anything rotating equipment on a wind turbine. Particularly if it involves gears and teeth. Well, this idea from Flender describes an adjustable rotor shaft assembly for connecting a gearbox to the generator.
And the key feature is it uses a curved tooth coupling with the releasable support element which allows the both ends to move relative to one another, which And a lot of wind turbines, if you’ve been up in them, there is a lot of movement at times, and it lets that misalignment not destroy. The assembly.
And this is really slick because we have all kinds of issues, like I’ve said, on anything with teeth, on, on some of these bigger wind turbines as the,