Trends in Blade Technology and Changing R&D Needs Panel
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Sandia National Laboratories is a multi-program laboratory managed and operated by Sandia Corporation, a wholly owned subsidiary of Lockheed Martin Corporation, for the U.S. Department of Energy’s National Nuclear Security Administration under contract DE-AC04-94AL85000. SAND NO. 2011-XXXXP Panel: Trends in Blade Technology and Changing R&D Needs • Anurag Gupta, Director for Advanced Technologies, Vestas Wind Systems • Ken Lee, Blades Structures, Envision Energy • Jesper Månsson, Senior Director, LM Wind Power • Jacques Nader, Head of Blade Design and Boulder R&D Office, Siemens Energy, Inc. • Chair: Carsten Westergaard, Senior Advisor (Cont.), Wind & water, Sandia National Laboratories
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Sandia National Laboratories is a multi-program laboratory managed and operated by Sandia Corporation, a wholly owned subsidiary of Lockheed Martin Corporation, for the U.S. Department of Energy’s National Nuclear Security Administration under contract DE-AC04-94AL85000. SAND NO. 2011-XXXXP
Panel:TrendsinBladeTechnologyandChangingR&DNeeds• AnuragGupta,DirectorforAdvancedTechnologies,VestasWindSystems• KenLee,BladesStructures,EnvisionEnergy• JesperMånsson,SeniorDirector,LMWindPower• JacquesNader,HeadofBladeDesignandBoulderR&DOffice,SiemensEnergy,Inc.• Chair: CarstenWestergaard,SeniorAdvisor(Cont.),Wind&water,SandiaNationalLaboratories
DOEWindProgramMission
§ WeseektoincreasethedeploymentofwindenergysystemstooffsetcarbonintheatmosphereandincreasedomesticenergyproductbytechnologydevelopmentguidedbyDepartmentofEnergyWindVisiontowards35%windpenetrationin2050:
Ø Wind Power Resources and Site CharacterizationØ Wind Plant Technology AdvancementØ Supply Chain, Manufacturing and LogisticsØ Wind Power Performance, Reliability, and SafetyØ Wind Electricity Delivery and IntegrationØ Wind Siting and PermittingØ Collaboration, Education, and OutreachØ Workforce Development
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WindEnergyTechnologiesObjective
§ Servethenationsneedsbyprovidingworldleadingexpertise:1. RotorSystemsInnovation2. InnovativeExperimentationinWindPlantTechnologiesand
Operations3. QuantificationandReductionofUncertaintiesinWindPlant
ModelingandExperimentation4. WindPowerPerformance,Reliability,andSafety
§ Weaccomplishouropen-innovationgoalsthroughanation-leadingengineeringteam,leveragingthebroadercapabilitiesofthelargestUSengineeringlaboratoryandutilizingthemostadvancedandwelldocumentedwindplantresearchfacilityintheworld
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WhyInnovativeRotors?§ SinglelargestdriverofLCOEreduction§ LongerbladesbothreduceLCOEandallowforincreaseddeployment
§ Largerbladesrequirebreakthroughsin:§ Modular/on-Site Construction§ Loadcontrol§ Low-costhighstrengthfiber§ Manufacturing quality
§ Improvementstodesignstandardsareneededforlowwind-speedrotors
§ Tallertowersenablelongerblades§ Newopportunitiesmaybefoundinbladeinnovationcombinedwithwindplantcontrols
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A controlled connection between rotor and rotor wake impact every aspect
of the plant
Rotorsystemsinnovation§ Thewindplantrotorscontrolsanddriveseveryaspectofasuccessful
windplantoperation.Advancedrotorconceptsoffergreatpotentialforimprovingreliablewindplantperformancewhilereducingenergycosts
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§ InnovativerotorsflownattheNationalRotorTestbedhostedatDOE/SandiaSWiFT windplantofferselaborateverificationandvalidationarealandcontrolledwindplantenvironment,documentedtoreduceexperimentaluncertaintiesandtherebythereliabilityoftheresults
InnovativeExperimentationinWindPlantTechnologiesandOperations§ Ensuringsitesuitability,reproducibility,resilienceand
efficiencyofwindplantstoproduceusableelectricpower
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Variability
Tower vibration
§ Windplantcontrollers§ Cybersecurityandmicrogrid
integration§ Developmentandtestingof
newflowdiagnosticswithcommercialpartners
§ Dataanalytics(SCADA)windplantperformanceandreliabilityanalysis
§ Environmentalimpact,suchasradarinterferencemitigation
QuantificationandReductionofUncertaintiesinWindPlantModelingandExperimentation
§ High-fidelitymodelingofwindplantsforreductioninCOE§ Accuratepredictionofwindplantpowerproduction§ Understandingofcomplexaero-structuralloadscenarios
§ Leveragingofnuclearweaponssimulationtechnology§ Sandia’sNalu computationalfluiddynamicscodehasbeen
chosenasaDOEexascale applicationcodeforexploitationofnext-generationsupercomputinghardware.
§ Nalu isanopensourcecodebornfromtheFuegocode,usedoriginallyforabnormalfireenvironmentsforstockpilesystems.
§ Validation§ ValidationexperimentstobeperformedatSWiFT andother
facilities§ Quantifieduncertaintybounds onsimulationpredictions-
neededfordecisions impactingwindplantdesignandfinancing
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ANalu simulationofstalledflowpastawindturbine bladesection,performed intheDOETrinity supercomputer.
WindPowerPerformance,Reliability,andSafety§ Sandialeadseffortsinwindturbinereliabilityresearch,specifically
focusingon:§ Nondestructive inspection§ Effectsofbladedefects§ Compositematerialsresearch§ Structuralhealthmonitoring§ Structuredynamics§ Windloading§ Fullsystemhazardandrootcauseanalysis
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Innovativewindplanttechnologyplatformforthefutureindustrypartnerships
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Shorttermprogramgoals:§ Reduceturbine-turbine inter-
actionandwindplantunder-performance
§ Developadvancedwindturbine rotors
§ Public,open-source inorder toproducehighaccurateresultssupporting developmentofadvancedsimulations
Facilities:§ Threevariable-speedvariable-pitchmodified windturbineswith
fullpowerconversionandextensivesensorsuite§ Twoheavilyinstrumented in-flowmeteorological towers§ MassiveLIDARinstrumentation (inthepipeline)§ Site-widetime-synchronizeddatacollection§ HometotheNationalRotorTestbed
Thankyou!
ThisworkissupportedbytheUSDOEEEREWindandWaterPowerProgram.
