CORETO
Adapted Composite Repair Tooling for in-situ wind turbine blades structural rehabilitation
| Coordinatore | INNOVATIVE TECHNOLOGY AND SCIENCE LIMITED - INNOTECUK
Organization address
address: HILDERSHAM ROAD NORTH WING THE OLD LIVERY contact info |
| Nazionalità Coordinatore | United Kingdom [UK] |
| Totale costo | 1˙181˙545 € |
| EC contributo | 917˙399 € |
| Programma | FP7-SME
Specific Programme "Capacities": Research for the benefit of SMEs |
| Code Call | FP7-SME-2011 |
| Funding Scheme | BSG-SME |
| Anno di inizio | 2012 |
| Periodo (anno-mese-giorno) | 2012-04-01 - 2014-03-31 |
Partecipanti
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|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 |
INNOVATIVE TECHNOLOGY AND SCIENCE LIMITED - INNOTECUK
Organization address
address: HILDERSHAM ROAD NORTH WING THE OLD LIVERY contact info |
UK (CAMBRIDGE) | coordinator | 228˙262.98 |
| 2 |
TECHNI-MODUL ENGINEERING SA
Organization address
address: ZA DE PERACHE contact info |
FR (COUDES) | participant | 217˙475.00 |
| 3 |
BS ROTOR TECHNIC (UK) LTD
Organization address
address: TWYFORD contact info |
UK (CROFTON HIGHFIELD) | participant | 191˙368.75 |
| 4 |
POLKOM BADANIA SP ZOO
Organization address
address: UK IGNACEGO KRASICKIEGO 35 contact info |
PL (WARSZAWA) | participant | 140˙281.25 |
| 5 |
BRUNEL UNIVERSITY
Organization address
address: Kingston Lane contact info |
UK (UXBRIDGE) | participant | 35˙633.00 |
| 6 |
GMI AERO SAS
Organization address
address: Rue Buffault 9 contact info |
FR (PARIS) | participant | 34˙181.00 |
| 7 |
TURKIYE RUZGAR ENERJISI BIRLIGI
Organization address
address: SOKAK 1271 EHLIBEYT MAHALLESI 15 contact info |
TR (ANKARA) | participant | 28˙857.00 |
| 8 |
NATIONAL TECHNICAL UNIVERSITY OF ATHENS - NTUA
Organization address
address: HEROON POLYTECHNIOU 9 ZOGRAPHOU CAMPUS contact info |
EL (ATHINA) | participant | 22˙194.00 |
| 9 |
TWI LIMITED
Organization address
address: Granta Park, Great Abington contact info |
UK (CAMBRIDGE) | participant | 19˙147.00 |
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Obiettivo del progetto (Objective)
'The wind turbine industry is the fastest growing market area for the use of composite materials. Current state-of-the-art turbines are increasing in size, providing multi-megawatt power output. To generate such power turbine rotorblade diameters exceeding 100m along with nacelle heights of 120m are becoming standard. As turbines grow and their deployment becomes more widespread and remote, it is becoming increasingly important that systems are put in place to monitor their condition in real time. Such monitoring offers significant cost of ownership savings through condition based maintenance, reduced downtime and a reduced likelihood of catastrophic failure.
Even though important efforts have taken place lately towards condition based maintenance, there has been limited action concerning the “next step”, which should take place after the localisation of potential damage (in regards to the reparation of the blades). Existing solutions require (in most cases) the disassembly of the turbine blades and shipping to specialized composite repair facilities, which results in increased time and money requirements. Should appropriate tooling be available to enable in-situ repair of turbine blades, it is estimated that large-scale reductions could be achieved (both in terms of time and money).
Within this project novel adapted tooling will be developed, which complies to wind turbine specificities and requirements (easily mounted, lightweight, fast and robust equipment) in order to enable the in-situ performance of the three major composite repair steps: Non Destructive Inspection, Surface Preparation, Hot Bonding.
According to the developments of this project, which will enable in-situ repair of turbine blades for a wide variety of cases, it is estimated that large-scale reductions could be achieved both in terms of system availability and cost by minimizing the cases that require disassembly of blades and transportation to repair shop for rehabilitation.'