Large-Scale Additive Manufacturing for Low Cost Small-Scale Wind Turbine Manufacturing (CRADA NFE-18-07065)
- Oak Ridge National Lab. (ORNL), Oak Ridge, TN (United States)
Oak Ridge National Laboratory’s (ORNL) Manufacturing Demonstration Facility (MDF) worked with XZERES Wind to fabricate small (in comparison to traditional wind energy systems) wind turbine blades using large-scale polymer additive manufacturing (AM) in Phase 1 of this project. The results of Phase 1 showed promise for the use of AM in the production of small wind energy systems. Although, the large-scale polymer AM systems available for this project proved to be too large for this application, ORNL and XZERES Wind were able to prove that AM is a viable opportunity to improve small wind turbine blades. The goal for Phase 2 was for XZERES to design tooling for their existing blade geometry and for ORNL to manufacture the tooling and a blade section using advanced manufacturing techniques. Unfortunately, due to personnel turnover at XZERES, Phase 2 was not completed.
- Research Organization:
- Oak Ridge National Laboratory (ORNL), Oak Ridge, TN (United States)
- Sponsoring Organization:
- USDOE Office of Energy Efficiency and Renewable Energy (EERE)
- DOE Contract Number:
- AC05-00OR22725
- OSTI ID:
- 1606760
- Report Number(s):
- ORNL/TM-2019/1428; CRADA/NFE-18-07065
- Country of Publication:
- United States
- Language:
- English
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