Selected results on the development and testing of smart blades technologies for wind turbines

authored by

Z. Montano Rejas, Silvia Opitz, Johannes Riemenschneider, Edgar Werthen, Martin Pohl, Yves Govers, Janto Gundlach, Vlaho Petrović, Róbert Ungurán, Lars Neuhaus, Claudio Balzani, Michael Wentingmann, Ayan Haldar, Raimund Rolfes, Moritz Bätge

Abstract

Within the frame of the Smart Blades and the SmartBlades2 projects, different technologies for developing smart rotor blades for wind turbines have been developed and are still being studied and tested. These cover the three following technologies: bend-twist coupled rotor blades; rotor blades with trailing edge flaps and rotor blades with leading edge slats. In addition, cross-technology topics that need to be considered for successfully implementing all three technologies as well as for evaluating their performance within a wind turbine system are being studied.

Organisation(s)

Institute of Wind Energy Systems
Institute of Structural Analysis

External Organisation(s)

German Aerospace Center (DLR) (e.V.) Location Braunschweig
German Aerospace Center (DLR) (e.V.), Göttingen Site
Carl von Ossietzky University of Oldenburg
Fraunhofer Institute for Wind Energy Systems (IWES)

Type

Conference contribution

Pages

102-117

No. of pages

16

Publication date

2019

Publication status

Published

ASJC Scopus subject areas

General Materials Science, General Energy, Pollution

Sustainable Development Goals

SDG 7 - Affordable and Clean Energy