- Category: 2021
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The Front CoverLightning damage stubbornly remains a major O&M expense for owner-operators in cost and frequency. Damage such as blade skin punctures, shell delamination, split trailing edges, and (less frequently) catastrophic damage to wind turbine blades is costly to repair and causes undesirable downtime. Arctura has developed a wind turbine blade coating that reduces lightning damage to turbine blades by encouraging surface flashovers (see page 7). (cover image: courtesy NTS Lightning Technologies). Publisher's NoteHUSUM Wind 2021: first European on-site trade fair since the pandemic began FeaturesLightning Protection for Wind Turbines
By Neal E. Fine, John A. Cooney and Christopher S. Szlatenyi, Arctura, Inc., USA Wind Turbines and Computational Fluid Dynamics Future Super Large Rotor Blades Moving Rotor Hubs Windtech FutureAre We Going in the Right Direction? View from InsideTogether We Must Act Faster! Latest News
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The Front CoverInspecting wind turbines is not just about flying around the rotor blades and gathering high resolution pictures of everything. It is about image quality and supplementary metadata that improve the overall value of, and information about, an inspection flight, and processing and presenting the results in a manner that allows rotor blade experts to make precise decisions. You can read more about this topic in the article written by Christian Raml from Aero Enterprise on page 7. Publisher's NoteHow to speed up recycling of wind turbine blades FeaturesWind Turbine Inspection with Drones
By Christian Raml, Head of Research and Development, Aero Enterprise, Austria A Critical Element for Wind Farm Profitability Consequences of Large Wind Farm Clustering Airfoils for Wind Turbines Windtech FutureAre We Going in the Right Direction? View from InsideWind O&M – the Need for a Collaborative Approach in the Supply Chain Latest News
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The Front CoverAs wind turbines installed in the late 1990s and early 2000s begin to be decommissioned, it is important to consider sustainable options for handling their end-of-life materials. Recycling and other circular economy methods can reduce the material intensity of wind energy production, but composite blades are more difficult to recycle than many other major wind turbine components. Read more about this topic in the article at page 7. (Cover photo: Ryan Beach / NREL) Publisher's NoteWill the US offshore wind market finally take off? Features
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The Front CoverA recent project has investigated the potential for a renewable energy solution to reduce the emissions associated with the production of offshore oil and gas in the North Sea in a variety of scenarios. The project explored technical, economic and regulatory aspects of combining the offshore renewable energy and oil and gas sectors. The cover picture shows a Floating Power Plant basin test at Aalborg University, Denmark. In the article on page 7 you can read more about this project. Publisher's NoteIs green hydrogen the holy grail or just hype? Features
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The Front CoverAn industry collaboration has developed a ‘Complex Flow Solver’ (CFS) that combines 50-point continuous wave lidar measurements, high-resolution open source computational fluid dynamics (CFD) modelling and powerful cloud computing to deliver the best available solution for bankable wind resource and energy yield assessment based on standalone lidar. The project has benefited from Horizon 2020 funding from the European Union. In the article on page 6 you can read more about this project. Publisher's NoteWill 2021 be the year of a green economic recovery? Features
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