Invention Grant
- Patent Title: Method for manufacturing a wind turbine tower structure based on wind direction
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Application No.: US17278837Application Date: 2018-09-28
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Publication No.: US11992968B2Publication Date: 2024-05-28
- Inventor: Biao Fang , Norman Arnold Turnquist , Gregory Edward Cooper , Pascal Meyer
- Applicant: General Electric Company
- Applicant Address: US NY Schenectady
- Assignee: GE Infrastructure Technology LLC
- Current Assignee: GE Infrastructure Technology LLC
- Current Assignee Address: US SC Greenville
- Agency: Dority & Manning, P.A.
- International Application: PCT/US2018/053440 2018.09.28
- International Announcement: WO2020/068116A 2020.04.02
- Date entered country: 2021-03-23
- Main IPC: B28B1/00
- IPC: B28B1/00 ; B33Y10/00 ; B33Y80/00 ; E04H12/12 ; E04H12/34 ; F03D13/10 ; F03D13/20 ; G01P13/02

Abstract:
A method for manufacturing a tower structure of a wind turbine at a wind turbine site. The method includes determining an optimized shape of the tower structure based on one or more site parameters. Further, the optimized shape of the tower structure is non-symmetrical. In a further step, the method include printing, via an additive printing device, the optimized shape of the tower structure of the wind turbine at the wind turbine site, at least in part, of a cementitious material. In addition, the method includes allowing the cementitious material to cure so as to form the tower structure of the wind turbine.
Public/Granted literature
- US20220032496A1 METHOD FOR MANUFACTURING A WIND TURBINE TOWER STRUCTURE BASED ON WIND DIRECTION Public/Granted day:2022-02-03
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