Aileron controls for wind turbine applications
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OSTI ID:6411879
Horizontal-axis wind turbines utilize partial or full variable blade pitch to regulate rotor speed. The weight and costs of these systems indicated a need for alternate methods of rotor control. Aileron-control is an alternative which has potential to meet this need. The NASA Lewis Research Center has been experimentally testing aileron-control rotors on the Mod-O wind turbine to determine their power regulation and shutdown characteristics. This paper presents experimental test results for a 20 and 38% chord aileron-control rotor. The test results to date show that aileron-control is a viable method for safely controlling rotor speed, following a loss of generator load.
- Research Organization:
- National Aeronautics and Space Administration, Cleveland, OH (USA). Lewis Research Center
- DOE Contract Number:
- AI01-76ET20320
- OSTI ID:
- 6411879
- Report Number(s):
- DOE/NASA/20320-60; NASA-TM-86867; CONF-840804-53; ON: DE85003043
- Resource Relation:
- Conference: Intersociety energy conversion engineering conference, San Francisco, CA, USA, 19 Aug 1984
- Country of Publication:
- United States
- Language:
- English
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