03/08/2021
Posted by: Windfair Editors
Iowa State University Publishes Study on Rotor Blade Icing
This drone photo from a field study of icing on wind turbines shows how ice accumulated at the tip of a turbine blade during a winter storm. The study found ice accumulation can be nearly a foot thick on the blade tips (Image: Hui Hu)Official Press Release Iowa State University:
Field study shows icing can cost wind turbines up to 80% of power production
Wind turbine blades spinning through cold, wet conditions can collect ice nearly a foot thick on the yard-wide tips of their blades.
That disrupts blade aerodynamics. That disrupts the balance of the entire turbine. And that can disrupt energy production by up to 80 percent, according to a recently published field study led by Hui Hu, Iowa State University’s Martin C. Jischke Professor in Aerospace Engineering and director of the university’s Aircraft Icing Physics and Anti-/De-icing Technology Laboratory. Hu has been doing laboratory studies of ... More: Official Press Release Iowa State University
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