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Air and oil do mix

The wind power and petroleum industries may be seen as rivals, yet oil is essential throughout a wind farm to ensure smooth operation. As such, it is necessary to select the right accumulators for both hydraulic and lubrication applications.

Wind turbine manufacturers typically speak of having availability levels in the range of 97% to 98%, but a 2008 study by British wind consultants Garrad Hassan found actual availability levels to be lower. In North America, turbines were averaging an availability of 94% to 95%.

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  • Apr. 9, 2013
    Article
    Hydraulics & Pneumatics

    Air and oil do mix

    The wind power and petroleum industries may be seen as rivals, yet oil is essential throughout a wind farm to ensure smooth operation. As such, it is necessary to select the right accumulators for both hydraulic and lubrication applications. Wind turbine manufacturers typically speak of having availability levels in the range of 97% to 98%, but a 2008 study by British wind consultants Garrad Hassan found actual availability levels to be lower. In North America, turbines were averaging an availability of 94% to 95%....More
  • Apr. 4, 2013
    blog

    "Weight" a Minute 2

    I don’t think I bamboozled anyone with my April Fools’ blog on Monday, so I’ll switch back to blogging in reality for another year. I’ve been speaking about  accumulators a lot lately, in blogs and on Twitter, so I thought I’d discuss the best – and least often used – version of hydraulic accumulator; the weight-loaded accumulator....More
  • Jan. 14, 2013
    News
    Hydraulics & Pneumatics

    Updated accumulator selection software available

    Parker Hannifin Accumulator & Cooler Division Americas recently revamped its inPHorm for Accumulators program, allowing it to run on a Windows 7 platform and serve solely as a stand-alone accumulator-sizing program.  ...More
  • Nov. 28, 2012
    Video
    Hydraulics & Pneumatics

    Lightning Hybrids' fuel efficiency demonstration

    Lightning Hybrids, Loveland, Colo., announced this week that it will be supplying its hydraulic hybrid system on two city buses for the city of Loveland. A video like this will be shown on board the buses, to demonstrate the fuel efficiency the system is achieving....More
  • Nov. 27, 2012
    Article

    Parker to deliver more hydraulic hybrid refuse truck systems

    Two years after testing on three trucks began in southern Florida, Parker Hannifin Corp. announced today that Miami-Dade County in south Florida has placed an order for 29 Autocar E3 refuse trucks featuring Parker’s fuel-saving RunWise technology. These vehicles are being used in municipalities across the country yielding significant reliability and performance measures....More
  • Nov. 9, 2012
    Article

    Accumulators beat boom bounce

    Designers at a manufacturer of agricultural equipment eliminate the problem boom bounce on their self-propelled, high-clearance sprayers with AccuMight bladder accumulators....More
  • Oct. 16, 2012
    News

    Lightning Hybrids sells accumulator business

    Lightning Hybrids LLC, Loveland, Colo., today announced that it sold its composite hydraulic accumulator assets and intellectual property to Steelhead Composites LLC for an undisclosed amount on October 2. Lightning Hybrids shareholder, Aravaipa Ventures was instrumental in negotiating the sale and has subsequently invested in Steelhead....More
  • Sep. 11, 2012
    Product

    Piston accumulators

    Full line of standard piston-type accumulators are selected based on physical dimensions, maximum allowable working pressure, and fluid volumes to best suit application. Available in wide variety of materials, seal configurations and materials, and fluid and gas port configurations....More
  • Jul. 26, 2012
    Sponsored

    Hydraulic Accumulators from Tobul Accumulator

    This video introduces the history and capabilities of Tobul Accumulator....More
  • Jun. 12, 2012
    Article

    Accumulators help keep heads on straight 2

    Hiram Moore invented the combine harvester in the U.S. in 1834. The machine  combined three separate operations — reaping, threshing, and winnowing — into a single process. But it wasn’t until 1911 that the self-propelled harvester was introduced. Eventually, hydraulics were incorporated to make the machine more versatile and productive. Today’s combines are equipped with removable headers for use with particular crops— wheat, oats, rye, barley, soybeans, etc....More
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