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Adapted Composite Repair Tooling for in-situ wind turbine blades structural rehabilitation

Coordinatore	INNOVATIVE TECHNOLOGY AND SCIENCE LIMITED - INNOTECUK    more  Organization address address: HILDERSHAM ROAD NORTH WING THE OLD LIVERY city: CAMBRIDGE postcode: CB21 6DR contact info Titolo: Mr. Nome: Hassam Cognome: Miabhoy Email: send email Telefono: 441224000000
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

#	participant	country	role	EC contrib. [€]
1	INNOVATIVE TECHNOLOGY AND SCIENCE LIMITED - INNOTECUK  Organization address address: HILDERSHAM ROAD NORTH WING THE OLD LIVERY city: CAMBRIDGE postcode: CB21 6DR contact info Titolo: Mr. Nome: Hassam Cognome: Miabhoy Email: send email Telefono: 441224000000	UK (CAMBRIDGE)	coordinator	228˙262.98
2	TECHNI-MODUL ENGINEERING SA  Organization address address: ZA DE PERACHE city: COUDES postcode: 63114 contact info Titolo: Ms. Nome: Chantal Cognome: Wierckx Email: send email Telefono: 33473545346 Fax: +33 473 55 96 35	FR (COUDES)	participant	217˙475.00
3	BS ROTOR TECHNIC (UK) LTD  Organization address address: TWYFORD city: CROFTON HIGHFIELD postcode: SO21 1QR contact info Titolo: Mr. Nome: Jeremy Cognome: Sheppard Email: send email Telefono: 495554000000	UK (CROFTON HIGHFIELD)	participant	191˙368.75
4	POLKOM BADANIA SP ZOO  Organization address address: UK IGNACEGO KRASICKIEGO 35 city: WARSZAWA postcode: 02 611 contact info Titolo: Ms. Nome: Ella Cognome: Schabowicz Email: send email Telefono: +48 22 827 76 47 Fax: +48 22 827 76 47	PL (WARSZAWA)	participant	140˙281.25
5	BRUNEL UNIVERSITY  Organization address address: Kingston Lane city: UXBRIDGE postcode: UB83PH contact info Titolo: Ms. Nome: Teresa Cognome: Waller Email: send email Telefono: 441895000000 Fax: 441895000000	UK (UXBRIDGE)	participant	35˙633.00
6	GMI AERO SAS  Organization address address: Rue Buffault 9 city: PARIS postcode: 75009 contact info Titolo: Mr. Nome: Roland Cognome: Chemama Email: send email Telefono: 33142821144 Fax: +33 142829838	FR (PARIS)	participant	34˙181.00
7	TURKIYE RUZGAR ENERJISI BIRLIGI  Organization address address: SOKAK 1271 EHLIBEYT MAHALLESI 15 city: ANKARA postcode: 6520 contact info Titolo: Ms. Nome: Elif Cognome: Gurel Email: send email Telefono: 903125000000	TR (ANKARA)	participant	28˙857.00
8	NATIONAL TECHNICAL UNIVERSITY OF ATHENS - NTUA  Organization address address: HEROON POLYTECHNIOU 9 ZOGRAPHOU CAMPUS city: ATHINA postcode: 15780 contact info Titolo: Ms. Nome: Georgia Cognome: Mertzelou Email: send email Telefono: 3021080000000 Fax: 302108000000	EL (ATHINA)	participant	22˙194.00
9	TWI LIMITED  Organization address address: Granta Park, Great Abington city: CAMBRIDGE postcode: CB21 6AL contact info Titolo: Mr. Nome: David Cognome: Hamper Email: send email Telefono: 441224000000 Fax: 441224000000	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.'