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  2. Vortex generator - Wikipedia

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    Vortex generators are most often used to delay flow separation.To accomplish this they are often placed on the external surfaces of vehicles [4] and wind turbine blades. On both aircraft and wind turbine blades they are usually installed quite close to the leading edge of the aerofoil in order to maintain steady airflow over the control surfaces at the trailing edge. [3]

  3. Attic fan - Wikipedia

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    An attic fan installed underneath a roof. A powered attic ventilator, or attic fan, is a ventilation fan that regulates the heat level of a building's attic by exhausting hot air. A thermostat is used to automatically turn the fan off and on, while sometimes a manual switch is used. An attic fan can be gable mounted or roof mounted. Additional ...

  4. Stack effect - Wikipedia

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    Contemporary sustainable buildings often make use of the stack effect along with related non-electric techniques like ground coupling, earth sheltering, and evaporative cooling to enhance the passive cooling profile of a building. By carefully designing the building's structure, orientation and ventilation paths, architects can leverage the ...

  5. Passive ventilation - Wikipedia

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    A roof turbine ventilator, colloquially known as a 'Whirly Bird' is an application of wind driven ventilation. Passive ventilation is the process of supplying air to and removing air from an indoor space without using mechanical systems.

  6. Vortex Bladeless - Wikipedia

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    Vortex Bladeless Ltd. is a Spanish technology startup company that is developing a specific type of wind power generator without rotating blades or lubricants. [1] Power is produced from resonant vibrations when wind passes through the turbine and is deflected into vortices in a process called vortex shedding.

  7. Magnetohydrodynamic generator - Wikipedia

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    The only parasitic load for the magnets are to maintain refrigeration, and to make up the small losses for the non-supercritical connections. Because of the high temperatures, the non-conducting walls of the channel must be constructed from an exceedingly heat-resistant substance such as yttrium oxide or zirconium dioxide to retard oxidation ...

  8. Balancing of rotating masses - Wikipedia

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    Under conditions where rotating speed is very high even though the mass is low, as in gas turbines or jet engines, or under conditions where rotating speed is low but the mass is high, as in ship propellers, balance of the rotating system should be highly considered, because it may generate large vibrations and cause failure of the whole system.

  9. Solar updraft tower - Wikipedia

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    Manzanares Solar Chimney viewed through the polyester collector roof In 1982, a small-scale experimental model of a solar draft tower [ 24 ] was built in Manzanares, Ciudad Real , 150 km south of Madrid , Spain at 39°02′34.45″N 3°15′12.21″W  /  39.0429028°N 3.2533917°W  / 39.0429028; -3.2533917  ( Manzanares Solar Updraft