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Energies, 2023 In this paper, based on the lift-type wind turbine, an adaptive double-drive lift–drag composite vertical-axis wind turbine is designed to improve the wind energy utilization rate. A drag blade was employed to rapidly accelerate the wind turbine, and the
Pengfei Yan +4 more
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Force Measurements on a VAWT Blade in Parked Conditions
Energies, 2017 The forces on a turbine at extreme wind conditions when the turbine is parked is one of the most important design cases for the survivability of a turbine.
Anders Goude, Morgan Rossander
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Stability Analysis of Wind Turbine Blades Based on Different Structural Models
Journal of Marine Science and Engineering, 2023 In order to better simulate the actual working conditions of wind turbines more realistically, this paper adopts the two-way fluid–structure coupling method to study the NREL 5 MW wind turbine, considering the blade coupling deformation and equivalent ...
Bin Wang +8 more
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Autonomous Wind-Turbine Blade Inspection Using LiDAR-Equipped Unmanned Aerial Vehicle
IEEE Access, 2020 This paper presents a LiDAR-equipped unmanned aerial vehicle (UAV) performing semi-autonomous wind-turbine blade inspection which includes traversing to the blade tip and back, while keeping constant relative distance and heading to the blade plane ...
Marko Car +4 more
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Wind Turbine Blade Structural Efficiency [PDF]
53rd AIAA/ASME/ASCE/AHS/ASC Structures, Structural Dynamics and Materials Conference<BR>20th AIAA/ASME/AHS Adaptive Structures Conference<BR>14th AIAA, 2012 Alternative structural layouts for wind turbine blades are investigated with the aim to improve their design, minimize weight and reduce the cost of wind energy. To obtain the new concepts, topology optimization is performed on a 45 m wind turbine blade.
Neil Buckney +3 more
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Wind turbine blade waste in 2050
Waste Management, 2017 Wind energy has developed rapidly over the last two decades to become one of the most promising and economically viable sources of renewable energy. Although wind energy is claimed to provide clean renewable energy without any emissions during operation, but it is only one side of the coin.
Liu, P, Barlow, CY
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Acoustic Emissions from Wind Turbine Blades [PDF]
Journal of Aerospace Technology and Management, 2019 Research on broadband aerodynamic noise from wind turbine blades is becoming important in several countries. In this work, computer simulation of acoustic emissions from wind turbine blades are predicted using quasi empirical model for a three-bladed ...
Vasishta Bhargava, Rahul Samala
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Structural Analysis of Basalt Fiber Reinforced Plastic Wind Turbine Blade
MATEC Web of Conferences, 2014 In this study, Basalt fiber reinforced plastic (BFRP) wind turbine blade was analyzed and compared with Glass fiber reinforced plastic blade (GFRP). Finite element analysis (FEA) of blade was carried out using ANSYS.
Mengal Ali Nawaz +2 more
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Stress validation of finite element model of a small-scale wind turbine blade
Journal of Energy in Southern Africa, 2019 Wind turbine blades are the first mechanical part of a wind turbine that interacts with the wind and hence play a key role in wind power generation. It is important that the wind turbine blade is tested for structural integrity in accordance to design ...
Tolulope Babawarun +2 more
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Engineering Reports, 2022 With the wide application of clean energy, the requirements of this vertical axis wind turbine are higher and higher. A new diagonal spiral blade vertical axis wind turbine is designed and studied.
Zheng Li +5 more
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