31 Oct 2014

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13 Oct 2014

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Hi In the Bag: Energy bags like this 5-meter-diameter one, from Thin Red Line Aerospace, of Canada, could be used to store electricity underwater as compressed air. Engineers hope the technology could one day smooth out the intermittency of electricity produced by offshore wind farms and other renewable energy sources.






With the worldwide proliferation of wind- and solar-generated power, the fickleness of these renewable sources is a problem crying out for a good solution. 
A Canadian start-up called Hydrostor thinks it has an answer: air-filled bags.




In August, the Toronto company plans to sink several large balloonlike bags into Lake Ontario, and then, using electricity from Toronto Hydro’s grid to run a compressor, it will fill the bags with air. 
Later, when the utility needs electricity, the air will be emptied from the bags and run through a turboexpander, which uses the expanding air to drive a turbine. 
The result will be the world’s first commercial facility for underwater compressed-air energy storage. This animation from Hydrostor explains how its system works:

Using compressed air to store energy is not a new idea. 
Compressed Air Energy Storage Makes a Comeback.
The first such systems emerged back in the 1870s, and these days compressed air is stored inunderground caverns, in pipes, and even in small tanks for powering cars and locomotives. 

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Variants of the underwater storage idea have also been floated, so to speak, since at least the 1980s, says Seamus Garvey, a professor of dynamics at the University of Nottingham, in England. 
Garvey, who’s not affiliated with Hydrostor, designed an underwater storage system using Thin Red Line Aerospace’s bags and deployed a prototype off Scotland’s Orkney Islands, in 2012. 
“The idea is to put the storage where it matters most, which is where the intermittent energy is being generated from offshore wind,” Garvey says.
Hydrostor CEO Curtis VanWalleghem says his company began looking at the technology four years ago as a side project to a wind farm it wanted to develop. 
At first, the company planned to use pumped hydro storage, in which water is pumped uphill and then released later to reclaim the electricity. 
Pumped hydro can have efficiencies of 80 percent or higher, but it works only in certain geographies and isn’t economical on a small scale. 
“So we thought, if lifting a cubic meter of water into the air is the best way to store energy, maybe the reverse would also work—submerging air below water,” says VanWalleghem.
The concept is simple enough: 
When the energy bag is anchored underwater—at least 25 meters deep and ideally 100 meters or more—the weight of the water naturally pressurizes the air, allowing more air, and thus energy, to be stored in a given volume. 
(The pressure increases roughly 1 atmosphere, or about 100,000 pascals, every 10 meters.) At depths greater than 500 meters, says Garvey, “the cost of the containment becomes negligible compared with the costs of the power-conversion machinery.”




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Hi Dry Run: In 2011, Toronto start-up Hydrostor tested its underwater compressed-air energy-storage system in Lake Ontario. In August, it plans to deploy a commercial version, the world’s first.


In the Toronto system, the bags (or “flexible accumulators,” as Hydrostor calls them) will be deployed at a depth of 80 meters, and they should be able to supply about a megawatt of electricity for 3 hours or so. 

The company will also be testing fixed-wall accumulators, in which the compressed air will displace water inside the vessel. 
“This is the smallest size we would contemplate,” says VanWalleghem. A more typical capacity, he says, would be 20 to 30 megawatts that can be discharged over 10 to 20 hours. 
Eventually, the company will aim for an efficiency of about 60 to 70 percent. The technology easily scales up, he adds. 

“We just make the air cavity bigger, so there really is no upper limit.” By year’s end, the company plans to build a bigger and deeper underwater energy storage facility in Aruba.
One key challenge Hydrostor faced was how to capture the heat given off when air is compressed and then use it later to warm the air as it cools during expansion. 

“The air can reach temperatures of 650 °C during compression, so if you’re not judicious in capturing that waste heat, you lose efficiency,” explains Rupp Carriveau, an associate professor at the University of Windsor, in Ontario, Canada, who advised Hydrostor early on. 
The solution they settled on was an off-the-shelf heat exchanger coupled with an insulated water bath.
In fact, Hydrostor has tried to use existing components wherever possible. VanWalleghem explains why: 
“Reliability is very important for utilities. You need them to be comfortable with the technology.” 
Off-the-shelf equipment already has rated life spans in the field, which Hydrostor’s partners and investors found reassuring. 
“The downside is that you have to live with what’s available,” VanWalleghem says.  
“But it’s worth it in terms of speed to market and not having to design and build everything from scratch.” Hydrostor wouldn’t disclose the exact cost of the Toronto system, but VanWalleghem says it’s “in the numerous millions of dollars.”
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Hi More Bags: This video features energy bag guru Seamus Garvey of the University of Nottingham. In 2012 his team installed a prototype energy bag off the coast of Scotland. Garvey's ideas include something called a ballast bean, for deploying the bags without using human divers. 

Although the technology is still new, the need for this kind of energy storage is obvious, says Carriveau. 

Much of the world’s population lives near a coast, he notes. 
“So that’s your load. And because of the losses you get during transmission, it follows that you want to keep your energy generation and your storage as close as possible to your load.”
Garvey sees the underwater storage as part of a holistic system. 
“An offshore wind farm should not simply be a subsystem that produces electricity when the wind blows.  
It should be a system which takes energy from the wind and does whatever is needed to deliver energy to shore as that [energy] is needed.”
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Hi Q.) For quick extraction of unbreathable gases generated during possible fire after the fire was extinguished, in big commercial buildings there are used large fans on the roofs plus the normally closed automatic air intake shutters in basement.

These fans are powerfull - with 1000 and more Pa of static pressure. 

Does someone heard about a case when such a fan, turned on by a fault - by that the shutter staid closed, the building being rather hermetic with the doors closed, and its roof trusses being already undersized for a load placed on the roof - would cause the implosion (collapse) of the overloaded roof ? 

So to say, the SP of 1000 or 500 or even 50 Pa - that is, the additional load of 100 or 50 or even 5 kg/m2 - turning out to be "the last straw that broke the camel's neck" ?

Is it plausible ?

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I installed one of these systems in the atrium of the International Conference Centre in Birmingham, UK. 

The purpose is the remove smoke so that people can evacuate the building, and then the vents/fans are shut off to starve the fire of air. 

The fans are interlocked so they will not start until the inlet vents (in this building windows at first floor level) are open. 

It is fitted with two independent systems each having their own pre-stored air supply and fed the window actuators through copper pipes so a fire or power failure/shut off will not disrupt the operation. 

Shutting down the fans once the building is evacuated can only be manually selected by the fire crews.

Hi Ans.2); 

One Pa equals 1.450377×10−4 psi, therefore 1,000 Pa equals 1.450377 x 10-or 0.1450377 psi. 

Much more pressure than this can be achieved by blowing through a straw in a soda glass or beer glass if you choose. 

The fans you are referring to are high volume low pressure units. They have large clearance around the fan blade and high pitched blades. 

Their rotational speed is comparatively slow to other fans. The fans shown in #3 are of this type. They are used in barns, hen houses and such in order to cool the animals with a high volume of air but low pressures to prevent animal health problems. 

They are also used in large commercial flower nurseries to keep flowers and such cooler during hot summer months. 

Closing all the vents and doors of a cheaper "hoop" style green house with a polyethylene sheet used as the walls and ceiling while the fan is exhausting air won't even cause your ears to "pop". If the plants are watered prior to using the fan, evaporation cooling makes them even more effective.

The large fans on the top of buildings are high volume low pressure fans. This prevents the damage you were referring to but moves great amounts of air. 

The Positive Pressure Fans used by firefighters to exhaust smoke or flames from a building are also of this type. 

The fans used to blow up hot air balloons prior to applying the propane heat also are this type. In that case anything other than a low pressure high volume fan would damage the nylon balloon.

Hi Ans.3); 

Yes, this is plausible. I haven't personally encountered any instances, but I know of blast freezers that have squished from cooling, and controlled atmosphere rooms that had plywood pulled off from interior walls when certain valves failed.

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3 Oct 2014

Hi Keeping machines and operators cool and clean!.

Hi Keeping machines and operators cool and clean!. 

Floor Dry is piled around the base of the machines. Oil drips from the ceiling. Grinding dust collects in your coffee cup. A face full of mist greets you every time you open the machine door. This is the environment in which I learned machining 30 years ago. Back then, new machines were simply set on the floor, plugged in and given a quick leveling. Machine foundations were rare and temperature control was at the whim of whoever operated the loading dock door.


TOMZ Corp. has invested at least $150,000 in equipment to improve air quality, including this air filtration system. The investment returns about $5,000 a week in reclaimed cutting oil.

Shops today are more aware of environmental conditions. Mist collectors and electrostatic air cleaners are not uncommon and many manufacturers realize there’s little chance of attracting high-caliber work from customers when the shop is a pigsty. Many also recognize that proper environmental controls and a good machine foundation are important to accuracy—that holding a few tenths tolerance or imparting a mirror finish is all but impossible if the floor shakes like Elvis Presley every time the Union Pacific rumbles past.

But the sad truth remains that there are still too many shops ignoring air quality, temperature and machine isolation. This is bad for machines, their operators, part quality and, ultimately, the bottom line.

Take a Deep Breath:

Let’s start with air quality. Royal Products, Hauppauge, N.Y., has sold the Filtermist product for more than 30 years, yet Tom Sheridan, vice president of marketing, estimates fewer than 25 percent of machine tools have a mist containment system. “We’re still amazed at the number of people who approach us at trade shows who had no idea there are products available to take care of the mist and smoke generated by machine tools,” he said.

The Occupational Safety and Health Administration is partly to blame. The same people who mandate steel-toed boots and ear protection apparently don’t get too excited about shop air quality. “OSHA offers a guideline of 5 mg of particulate matter per cubic meter of air, but there are no actual regulations,” Sheridan said.

Lung damage, slippery floors, fire hazards, lost cutting fluid—there are many good reasons to keep air clean. Sheridan recommends exchanging the air inside a machine enclosure five times each minute. That might cost a few thousand dollars on a typical 8 " (203mm) CNC lathe or 20 "×40 " (0.5m × 1m) machining center. Too much money? Think about profits. “We’ve actually found shops where the operators were dialing back the speeds and feeds to reduce the amount of mist being produced,” he said.
Production efficiency aside, human help is a shop’s most important asset. “Some shops use climate control as a way of attracting good talent,” Sheridan said. “They want to give their employees a comfortable, healthy place to work.”

A Royal Filtermist removes mist on a Haas CNC lathe.

Scott Hilton, project manager at Machine Specialties Inc., a contract machining and metal finishing company in Whitsett, N.C., said he’s the person to call if you need something, so when MSI’s original owner called him 20 years ago and said he wanted his shop to look like a place people would want to work, Hilton got busy.
Over the years, he’s covered the floors with 316 "-thick epoxy and beefed up the HVAC systems, including installation of several air filtration units from Sanford, N.C-based Trion Air Purification Systems. “We have two types of air cleaners,” he said. “For the Swiss CNC lathes, we have electrostatic precipitators for oil and smoke. On the mills and other machines that run water-soluble coolant, we use Trion’s HEPA-equipped Air Boss systems.”
Hilton said the shop’s “eat-off-the-floor” cleanliness has attracted new customers, made machine maintenance easier and reduced operating costs, saving the company $20,000 annually in recovered cutting fluid. “We have 57 CNC machines—Swiss lathes, multipallet horizontals, 5-axis vertical machining centers and so on, running 24/7,” he said. “We do aerospace and medical work, and our customers expect the shop to be clean. But, just as importantly, this is our facility and that’s how we want it to be. It’s a mindset.”

Here Comes the Sun

Another shop with that mindset is Berlin, Conn.-based TOMZ Corp., a manufacturer of medical and aerospace components and customer of machine supplier Methods Machine Tools Inc., Sudbury, Mass. TOMZ Vice President Tom Matulaniec explained that, like MSI, it has installed electrostatic air cleaners for its machine tools, ducting them to a centralized unit. “We’ve easily invested $150,000 or more on air quality,” he said. “Aside from providing clean air, that investment probably returns nearly $5,000 a week in reclaimed cutting oil.”


TOMZ air-conditions its shop to a consistent temperature of 72° to 74° F (22° to 23° C) year round and installed 4 '×8 ' (1.2m × 2.4m) windows along the roofline to bring in natural light.

The company also air-conditions its shop to a consistent temperature of 72° to 74° F (22° to 23° C) year round. Matulaniec said: “We hold tenths on some of our jobs. Even with the constant air temperature, you still have to let the machines warm up after they’ve been sitting all weekend. And we’ve noticed that the machine closest to the shipping area gets a little cranky if you open the loading door, especially in the wintertime. Temperature is critical with tolerances this tight.”

In addition to its investment in air-temperature and quality control, TOMZ recognizes the human side of the equation, installing 4 '×8 ' (1.2m × 2.4m) windows along the roofline to bring in natural light. “We have guys out there working 10 or 11 hours a day,” Matulaniec said. “For much of the year, they clock in when it’s dark and go home when it’s dark. The windows make the environment a little better for everyone.”

Despite the tight tolerances, Matulaniec said TOMZ has not seen the need for special machine foundations. Until recently, that is. “We have all of our equipment bolted to the floor,” he said. “This is primarily to maintain alignment and keep it from moving around. We never had any trouble with vibration, then this week the city began repaving the street next to our building. You can feel it in the floor, and the machines can feel it too. We haven’t been able to run any close-tolerance work since they started doing that.”

Shake it Up:

Keith Leatherwood, vice president of sales at Vibro/Dynamics Corp., Broadview, Ill., which has manufactured machine mounts and vibration isolators since 1964, has a solution to Matulaniec’s problem: pour a slab. “Standard production floors are designed to support the weights of people, racks, tables and forklifts, not machine tools,” he said. “A true machine foundation can support a much higher load in a smaller area.”

There are many factors to consider. Leatherwood said these include accuracy requirements, weight and size of the machine tool, temperature and soil conditions, and proximity to railroad tracks. Ultimately, movement in the concrete beneath a machine tool negatively impacts its alignment. Ballscrews bend, machine frames twist and parts go out of whack. That’s bad news whether you’re making standard nuts and bolts or bone screws for spinal implants.

Gantry-style frames used on vertical machining centers are more thermally stable than traditional C-frame style machines.

Granted, reinforced machine foundations are a no-brainer in ultraprecision machining environments and for large machines, such as boring mills and heavy stamping equipment. Yet most shops have neither the cash nor ability to chop up the floor and pour a couple feet of rebar-reinforced concrete beneath each machine.
Leatherwood suggests elastomer mounts as a simpler and more cost-effective way for shops to isolate all but the most demanding machine tools from external vibration. These devices for CNC lathes, mills and EDMs are rubber hockey puck-like devices that replace a machine’s standard leveling pads.

For roughly 1 percent of the machine price, elastomer mounts eliminate vibration from air compressors, roaming forklifts and nearby road construction, according to Leatherwood. Buyer beware, however, because not all rubber is up to the task. “Metal pads are all created equal, but not so with elastomers,” he said. “Cheaply made mounts may creep or settle over time, doing more harm than good.”

Keep it Steady:

Gary Snow knows the right environment for a machine tool. As principal engineer for Okuma America Corp., Charlotte, N.C., Snow’s seen the best and worst of shops. “Some factories don’t have any climate control,” he said. “This is especially true in developing countries, but even here in the U.S. you’ll see shop floors where it’s 100-plus degrees F during the summer and there’s mist and oil flying all over. This is hard on the machines and hard on the operators.”

In an ideal world, machines would be kept at 68° F ±3° F (20° C) at all times, Snow explained. The air would be clean enough to keep electronics and operators happy and relatively dry to prevent rust and corrosion. Barring an isolated machine foundation, the floor would be concrete at least 6 " (152.4mm) thick and the machines anchored, minimizing machine movement. Machine builders, however, know that the world in which machines and people coexist is far from perfect.

“At least some of the problems caused by less-than-ideal environments can be overcome by machine design and operation,” Snow said. Gantry-style machines, for example, are inherently more stable than C-frame machines. And operators have long known to let a machine warm up while they get their morning cup of coffee and keep the loading doors closed on wintry days. “If you’re unable to maintain climate control in your shop, at least try to minimize the rate of temperature change—the delta—as best you can.”
You may not think a hunk of iron and sheet metal weighing 15,000 lbs. (6,804 kg) or more could be affected by an open loading door, but even the most robust of machine tools will suffer some degree of frame twist and column droop during a sudden temperature swing. “Cast iron is very elastic,” Snow said. “On a machining center, this can affect true position and Z-axis height. Close-tolerance turning and boring on a lathe is likewise problematic without stable air temperatures.”

Similar problems crop up with poor machine foundations. “Machines these days are heavy and fast, with rapid traverse speeds exceeding 600 ipm. This introduces forces and stresses on the machine, which carries all the way down to the leveling pads,” Snow explained. “Without a proper foundation and anchoring, you’ll find the machine’s geometric properties—and the positional relationship between the axes—will degrade over time. You’ll be left struggling to maintain part accuracy, and you will incur downtime from frequent releveling of the machine tool.”

A Perfect World:

Scott Walker, president of Mitsui Seiki (U.S.A.) Inc., Franklin Lakes, N.J., understands the importance of sound foundations and proper temperature control. The company’s manufacturing plant in Kawajima, Japan, was built to mind-boggling environmental standards. The 180,000-sq.-ft. facility has five separate assembly bays, all temperature controlled to 23° C ±0.4° C (73° F) and no more than 0.2° C variation floor to ceiling. The floor of each bay is an isolated concrete slab 1,200mm (47¼ ") thick, supported by 1,700 concrete pylons, 3 ' (0.9m) in diameter × 120 ' (36.6m) deep.

“There are only two facilities like this in the world,” Walker said. “The other is the Yasda factory in Okayama. We are the only two builders capable of holding better than 20μm positioning accuracy throughout the machine cube.”

Perhaps your shop doesn’t need a space similar to that, but a company that builds parts for airplanes does. Walker said aerospace manufacturing is a key industry that frequently requires environments approaching Mitsui-Seiki’s high-tech factory.

“If, for example, you’re building a gearbox that starts a jet engine, the input shaft site might spin at 18,000 rpm and the output is running somewhere around 45,000 rpm,” he said. “You’ve got eight or nine gears in there, each supported by bearing sets that, when assembled, meet stack-up tolerances under 20μm. Get it wrong and that gearbox will smoke on takeoff—never a good thing on an aircraft. To be successful, you need an environment that complements the work you’re doing and the equipment you’re doing it on.”

Now that you have something to think about as you’re boarding a plane, consider your shop. Are you preventing machinists from breathing in air more toxic than the surface of Mars? Is the shop kept cool, preferably somewhere in the low 70s and dry like an Arizona winter? What about vibration—can you still hold tenths on a bore even when the air compressor kicks in or the shipping guy does donuts with the forklift in the parking lot? If the answer is no, maybe you should investigate. Your machines—and their operators—will thank you. 

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