NOISE REDUCTION ELEMENT AND A WIND TURBINE BLADE COMPRISING A NOISE REDUCTION ELEMENT

    公开(公告)号:US20230049133A1

    公开(公告)日:2023-02-16

    申请号:US17794071

    申请日:2021-02-23

    Abstract: A noise reduction element extends between a first end and a second end in a first direction. The noise reduction element extends between a third end and a fourth end in a second direction perpendicular to the first direction. The noise reduction element includes a base part configured to be attached to a trailing edge of a wind turbine blade. The base part has a first base part surface and a second base part surface. The base part extends between the first end and a first position in the first direction. The noise reduction element includes a first serration part having a serration pressure surface and a serration suction surface and extending in the first direction between the first position and the second end. The first serration part has a thickness in a third direction between the serration pressure surface and the serration suction surface.

    Wind Turbine Blade with Lightning Protection System

    公开(公告)号:US20220010783A1

    公开(公告)日:2022-01-13

    申请号:US17295261

    申请日:2019-11-20

    Inventor: Lars Bo HANSEN

    Abstract: The invention relates to a wind turbine blade being a shell body made of a composite material and having a root end and a tip end, an outer surface, a pressure side and a suction side, a trailing edge and a leading edge, and additionally a lightning protection system. The lightning protection system comprising at least one lightning receptor provided with an outer surface arranged freely accessible in, on or at the outer surface of the blade at the tip end of the blade and a lightning conductor made of electrically conductive material extending within the shell body along substantially the entire longitudinal direction of the blade. The lightning receptor and the lightning conductor are electrically connected by means of a connection area. At least a part of the outer surface, optionally the whole of the outer surface of the receptor being freely accessible is formed of carbon such as graphite.

    WIND TURBINE BLADE HAVING AN ELECTRO-THERMAL SYSTEM

    公开(公告)号:US20250043773A1

    公开(公告)日:2025-02-06

    申请号:US18576731

    申请日:2022-07-05

    Abstract: A wind turbine blade comprising: an aerodynamic shell body with a suction side shell part and a pressure side shell part that extends in a longitudinal direction between a root and a tip and in a transverse direction between a leading edge and a trailing edge, and an electro-thermal system for mitigating ice formation on the wind turbine blade, the electro-thermal system comprising: a heating layer comprising electrically conductive fibres arranged to extend substantially in a longitudinal section of the aerodynamic shell body, wherein the electrically conductive fibres of the heating layer are configured for, upon receiving electrical power from a power cable, supplying resistive heating to an exterior side of the wind turbine blade so as to mitigate ice formation on the wind turbine blade; a metallic lightning protection layer arranged exteriorly to and overlapping the heating layer; and a down conductor being electrically connected to the metallic lightning protection layer so as to conduct a lightning strike current from the metallic lightning protection layer to the first end of the down conductor; wherein the heating layer and the metallic lightning protection layer are embedded in and co-infused with the aerodynamic shell body.

    WIND TURBINE BLADE HAVING A DE-ICING SYSTEM
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    发明公开

    公开(公告)号:US20240254972A1

    公开(公告)日:2024-08-01

    申请号:US18289434

    申请日:2022-06-16

    CPC classification number: F03D80/401

    Abstract: A wind turbine blade includes: an aerodynamic shell body with a suction side shell part and a pressure side shell part that extends in a longitudinal direction between a root and a tip and in a transverse direction between a leading edge and a trailing edge, and a de-icing system. The de-icing system includes: a number of heating layers each having electrically conductive fibres extending substantially in the longitudinal direction of the wind turbine blade along a longitudinal section of the aerodynamic shell body to provide resistive heating to the longitudinal section of the aerodynamic shell body; a number of metallic patches including a first metallic patch, the number of metallic patches being arranged to contact at least the number of heating layers; and a conductor cable that is electrically connected to the number of metallic patches and further is configured for electrically connecting to a power source.

    HYBRID POLTRUSION PLATES FOR A CONDUCTIVE SPAR CAP OF A WIND TURBINE BLADE

    公开(公告)号:US20240102453A1

    公开(公告)日:2024-03-28

    申请号:US18266794

    申请日:2021-12-30

    Abstract: The present invention relates to a method of manufacturing a wind turbine blade shell component (38), the method comprising the steps of providing a plurality of abraded pultrusion plates (64) having abraded edges, arranging the abraded pultrusion plates (64) in layers on blade shell material (89) in a mould (77) for the blade shell component, the layers being separated by electrically conductive interlayers, and bonding the abraded pultrusion plates (64) with the blade shell material to form the blade shell component, wherein each pultrusion plate (64) is formed of a pultrusion fibre material comprising glass fibres and carbon fibres. The invention also relates to a reinforcing structure for a wind turbine blade, the reinforcing structure comprising a plurality of pultrusion plates according to the present invention.

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