Individual pitch control (IPC) for reducing blade loads has been investigated and proven successful in recent literature. For IPC, the multi-blade co-ordinate (MBC) transformation is used to process the blade load signals from the rotating to a stationary frame of reference. In the stationary frame of reference, the yaw error of a turbine can be appended to generate IPC actions that are able to...

The effects of compressor aerodynamic parameters, such as pitch-chord ratio, aspect ratio, and fillet, on the cascade performance have been studied in this paper. Slot configuration at the root of the blade has been proved to be an efficient passive control method for the corner separation control in compressor cascade. The combined effects of the pitch-chord ratio, aspect ratio, and blade fill...

Global crisis in financial, energy, together with climate and enviromental, has motivated word community to seek for alternative energy resourses, known as the new and renewable energy source to replace conventional widely used fossil energy. Wind energy, regarded as potential candidate of the clean alternative source that may help to solve the crisis. The development of the world’s wind turbin...

The use of wind power for generating electricity has experienced an uninterrupted and accelerating growth over last few decades and this growth is likely to continue. In order to enable even greater role of wind energy in power production it is necessary to increase the size and unit power of wind turbines. As wind turbines grow in size they are subjected to extreme loads and fatigue caused by ...

In this work, the aerodynamic performance and optimization of a vertical-axis wind turbine with high tip-speed ratio are theoretically studied on basis two-dimensional airfoil theory. By dividing rotating plane into upwind downwind areas, relationship among angle attack, azimuth, pitch angle, is derived using quasi-steady model, loads then obtained. applying polynomial approximation to function...

In the title compound, C(12)H(9)Br(2)N, the dihedral angle between the benzene rings is 47.32 (5)°, whereas the pitch angles, or the angles between the mean plane of each aryl group 'propeller blade' and the plane defined by the aryl bridging C-N-C angle, are 18.1 (2) and 31.7 (2)°. No inter-molecular N-H hydrogen bonding is present in the crystal; however, there is a short inter-molecular Br⋯B...

This paper describes a model based control approach for individually adjusting the pitch of wind turbine blades and thereby attenuating the effect of asymmetric wind loads. It is assumed that measurements of local inflow along each blade are available. This effectively provides an estimate of the load distribution along the blades. The load estimates are used in a predictive setup where inflow ...