Large-Scale Additive Manufacturing for Low Cost Small-Scale Wind Turbine Manufacturing

Technical Report · Mon Sep 24 00:00:00 EDT 2018

DOI:https://doi.org/10.2172/1493993· OSTI ID:1493993

Post, Brian K.  ^[1]; Chesser, Phillip C. ^[1]; Roschli, Alex C. ^[1]; Love, Lonnie J.  ^[1]; Gaul, Katherine T.  ^[1]

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1. Oak Ridge National Lab. (ORNL), Oak Ridge, TN (United States)

Oak Ridge National Laboratory’s Manufacturing Demonstration Facility worked with XZERES Wind to fabricate small (in comparison to traditional wind energy systems) wind turbine blades using large-scale polymer additive manufacturing (AM). The results of this project 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.

• 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: 1493993
• Report Number(s): ORNL/TM-2018/1015; CRADA/NFE-18-07065
• Country of Publication: United States
• Language: English

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