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© 2019 American Society of Civil Engineers.Wind turbine rotor failures have been reported that resulted in substantial damage and cost for maintenance and recovery. This work developed a wind turbine rotor blade design and optimization method to address a coupled energy generation efficiency and blade structural strength design issue, as a generic procedure applicable to both turbine rotors and propellers, in air and water. The optimization procedure was developed for optimum radial blade sectional thickness distribution with a prescribed constant safety factor across the span. While maintaining the required structural strength and integrity of the rotor blades, this procedure is to achieve the following objectives: (1) reduce material use to minimum and (2) obtain the optimum power generation efficiency with the optimum structural strength. A propeller-turbine rotor code coupling aerodynamic and structural properties was developed. For a given blade geometry and chosen material, performance prediction of the instantaneous loading acting on all blade sections and the strength of a local blade section was performed and optimized. A time-domain, three-dimensional unsteady panel method was implemented, developed, and used to perform the optimization. A wind turbine 10 m in diameter from the National Renewable Energy Laboratory (NREL) (Golden, Colorado) was used as a base design example and for optimization based on an extreme wind speed of 100 km/h. The final result achieved a total savings of 18.72% in blade material.
Author(s): Xu Y, Liu P, Penesis I, He G, Heidarian A, Ghassemi H
Publication type: Article
Publication status: Published
Journal: Journal of Energy Engineering
Year: 2019
Volume: 145
Issue: 2
Online publication date: 08/02/2019
Acceptance date: 19/10/2018
Date deposited: 09/10/2019
ISSN (print): 0733-9402
ISSN (electronic): 1943-7897
Publisher: American Society of Civil Engineers (ASCE)
URL: https://doi.org/10.1061/(ASCE)EY.1943-7897.0000599
DOI: 10.1061/(ASCE)EY.1943-7897.0000599
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