Cut open a gasoline catalytic converter and a diesel one and they look much the same: a ceramic honeycomb wrapped in a mat inside a stainless steel can. The similarity...
The exhaust pipe on a modern diesel truck is doing more chemistry than most people realize. Between the turbocharger and the tailpipe sit a catalyst, a filter,...
Every catalytic converter is a compromise between two things that pull in opposite directions. More surface area inside the brick means better conversion, and more surface...
A catalytic converter is an unusual part to inspect. Most of what makes it work is invisible: a thin coating spread across thousands of channels, carrying small amounts....
India’s wind sector spent several years being overshadowed by solar. That has changed. The country added a record amount of wind capacity last year, the order pipeline...
A containerized battery energy storage system is a power plant that ships on a truck. Everything needed to store and return several megawatt hours of electricity, cells, racks, controls,...
Every wind turbine blade ends in a circle of bolts. Those bolts connect a composite blade to a steel pitch bearing, and between them they carry the whole blade’s load
When a manufacturer needs to machine something large and awkward, a wind turbine blade being a very good example, two quite different answers are usually on...
Cut steel and you get chips: curls of metal peeled cleanly off the workpiece. Cut a fiber composite and you get something else entirely. The tool fractures bundles of glass...
A modern wind turbine blade can run to eighty or a hundred meters, with laminate several centimeters thick in places and adhesive joints running most of its length...
