Methods and apparatus for twist bend coupled (TCB) wind turbine blades
Patent
·
OSTI ID:1175929
A method for controlling a wind turbine having twist bend coupled rotor blades on a rotor mechanically coupled to a generator includes determining a speed of a rotor blade tip of the wind turbine, measuring a current twist distribution and current blade loading, and adjusting a torque of a generator to change the speed of the rotor blade tip to thereby increase an energy capture power coefficient of the wind turbine.
- Research Organization:
- National Renewable Energy Laboratory (NREL), Golden, CO (United States)
- Sponsoring Organization:
- USDOE
- DOE Contract Number:
- AC36-83CH10093
- Assignee:
- General Electric Company (Schenectady, NY)
- Patent Number(s):
- 7,118,338
- Application Number:
- 10/880,732
- OSTI ID:
- 1175929
- Country of Publication:
- United States
- Language:
- English
Similar Records
Performance of twist-coupled blades on variable speed rotors
Design studies for twist-coupled wind turbine blades.
Load attenuating passively adaptive wind turbine blade
Conference
·
Mon Dec 06 23:00:00 EST 1999
·
OSTI ID:750209
Design studies for twist-coupled wind turbine blades.
Technical Report
·
Tue Jun 01 00:00:00 EDT 2004
·
OSTI ID:918776
Load attenuating passively adaptive wind turbine blade
Patent
·
Tue Dec 31 23:00:00 EST 2002
·
OSTI ID:875189