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SPARCARB · Lightning protection of wind turbine blades with carbon fibre composite materials

„Хоризонт 2020“ — Действия „Мария Склодовска-Кюри“

Период
2015-01-01 → 2018-12-31
Финансиране от ЕС
1 093 152 €
Участници
8
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MSCA-ITN-EID

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Защитата от мълнии на перките от въглеродни композити се изследва чрез анализ на тяхната електрическа проводимост и устойчивост на повреди. Това помага за намаляване на разходите по ремонт и експлоатация на ветрогенераторите, особено в отдалечени райони.

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Lightning protection of wind turbine blades with carbon fibre composite materials

Wind turbines are often erected in remote areas of the world, off shore or in mountainous regions, to exploit better wind resources. In these areas, the cost of failures and repairs can be substantial, and increase the levelized cost of energy (LCOE) remarkably. Since blade failures due to lightning are known to cause the longest outage time and involve the largest repair cost, ensuring the lightning performance of the turbines and especially of the blades has become very important. Modern wind turbine blades are to a large extent manufactured using Carbon Fiber Reinforced Polymers (CFRP) structural parts, due to the CFRP’s excellent mechanical tensile strength and stiffness, combined with a light weight. The use of CFRP decrease the weight of the overall rotor, and hence reduce the requirements for the remaining structure (drivetrain, nacelle structural parts, tower, foundation, etc.). By reducing all loads on the structure, the cost of the installed capacity can be minimized (CAPEX). However, CFRP also exhibit highly an-isotropic electric and thermal conductivities, which require special attention in terms of lightning protection. The specific issues of concern include design of electrical bonding to CFRP, investigation of damage tolerance, resin chemistry to optimize thermal and electrical properties of the CFRP, guidelines on overall protection concepts, etc. The research project SPARCARB is dedicated to solve these challenges of enabling efficient lightning protection of wind turbine blades using these CFRP based materials. Once the complete knowledge on the interaction between lightning and CFRP is achieved, and the knowledge is built into design guidelines and paradigms for blade manufacturing, blades can be designed to lower both CAPEX and OPEX of wind turbines. The reduced CAPEX will make future investment in wind plants more attractive, and the reduction in OPEX will ensure that the business case for investors remains attractive for the lifetime of the turbines. Both are important to ensure integration of more green energy into our system, and SPARCARB will via the generated knowledge assist in this process.

Текст от CORDIS, на английски · Данни: CORDIS, © Европейски съюз

Цел на проекта

The consortium behind SPARCARB – Global Lightning Protection Services A/S (GLPS, non-academic beneficiary), Denmark, together with the University of Southampon (SOTON, academic beneficiary entitled to award doctoral degrees), UK, and six Partner organizations – aims at providing an innovative international, interdisciplinary and intersectoral training network for four Early-Stage Researcher (ESRs), which will integrate in a single project (1) Science-based Training in material and electrical engineering; (2) Transferable Skills-based Training in carbon fibre, wind turbines, lightning protection technologies, business and innovation, and other competences; (3) and Research-based Training designed around cutting-edge challenges for the Wind Power Industry, which has identified the need for continuous research on lightning protection of large wind turbines with blades incorporating CFC structural components.The SPARCARB project aims at addressing the strong lack of doctoral-level trained human resources to push forward the research base in the field of lightning protection of CFC structures, building the proper environment for shifting paradigms in the Wind Power Industry. Specifically, the project will address scientific and technological challenges related to an effective protection of CFC wind turbine blades from lightning-induced damages, enabling the reliable use of very large and more efficient wind turbines. The goal is to train four ESRs to be familiar with both Industry (15 months at GLPS and secondments to industrial partner organizations for 3 months) and Academia (18 months at SOTON The doctoral training programme will be carried out according to SOTON’s criteria from which all four ESRs will obtain doctoral degrees. The envisaged training will provide a range of skills to all ESRs making them high-potential candidates to be employed at GLPS and other wind power industry players.

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