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WInspector

Advanced shearography kit and a robotic deployment platform for on-site inspection of wind turbine blades

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Project "WInspector" data sheet

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Coordinator	WRS MARINE INSPECTIONS AND SERVICES BV Organization address address: BOELEWERF 1 D E city: RIDDERKERK postcode: 2987 VD website: www.wrsmarine.com contact info title: n.a. name: n.a. surname: n.a. function: n.a. email: n.a. telephone: n.a. fax: n.a.
Coordinator Country	Netherlands [NL]
Project website	http://www.winspector.eu
Total cost	2˙750˙193 €
EC max contribution	2˙317˙939 € (84%)
Programme	1. H2020-EU.3. (PRIORITY 'Societal challenges) 2. H2020-EU.2. (PRIORITY 'Industrial leadership')
Code Call	H2020-FTIPilot-2015-1
Funding Scheme	IA
Starting year	2016
Duration (year-month-day)	from 2016-03-01 to 2019-05-31

Partnership

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#	participants	country	role	EC contrib. [€]
1	WRS MARINE INSPECTIONS AND SERVICES BV WRS MARINE INSPECTIONS AND SERVICES BV Organization address address: BOELEWERF 1 D E city: RIDDERKERK postcode: 2987 VD website: www.wrsmarine.com contact info title: n.a. name: n.a. surname: n.a. function: n.a. email: n.a. telephone: n.a. fax: n.a.	NL (RIDDERKERK)	coordinator	382˙515.00
2	TWI LIMITED TWI LIMITED Organization address address: GRANTA PARK GREAT ABINGTON city: CAMBRIDGE postcode: CB21 6AL website: www.twi.co.uk contact info title: n.a. name: n.a. surname: n.a. function: n.a. email: n.a. telephone: n.a. fax: n.a.	UK (CAMBRIDGE)	participant	695˙825.00
3	LONDON SOUTH BANK UNIVERSITY LBG LONDON SOUTH BANK UNIVERSITY LBG Organization address address: BOROUGH ROAD 103 city: LONDON postcode: SE10AA website: www.lsbu.ac.uk contact info title: n.a. name: n.a. surname: n.a. function: n.a. email: n.a. telephone: n.a. fax: n.a.	UK (LONDON)	participant	613˙522.00
4	AINOOUCHAOU PLIROFORIKI AE AINOOUCHAOU PLIROFORIKI AE Organization address address: L KIPHISIAS 116 KAI DAVAKI 1 city: ATHINA postcode: 115 26 website: www.iknowhow.gr contact info title: n.a. name: n.a. surname: n.a. function: n.a. email: n.a. telephone: n.a. fax: n.a.	EL (ATHINA)	participant	346˙964.00
5	SIEMENS GAMESA RENEWABLE ENERGY INNOVATION & TECHNOLOGY S.L. SIEMENS GAMESA RENEWABLE ENERGY INNOVATION & TECHNOLOGY S.L. Organization address address: AVENIDA CIUDAD DE LA INNOVACION 9 Y 11 city: SARRIGUREN postcode: 31621 website: www.gamesa.es contact info title: n.a. name: n.a. surname: n.a. function: n.a. email: n.a. telephone: n.a. fax: n.a.	ES (SARRIGUREN)	participant	279˙112.00
6	INNORA PROIGMENA TECHNOLOGIKA SYSTIMATA KAI YPIRESIES AE INNORA PROIGMENA TECHNOLOGIKA SYSTIMATA KAI YPIRESIES AE Organization address address: IOANNOY METAXA 59 city: KOROPI ATTIKIS postcode: 19400 website: www.innora.gr contact info title: n.a. name: n.a. surname: n.a. function: n.a. email: n.a. telephone: n.a. fax: n.a.	EL (KOROPI ATTIKIS)	participant	0.00

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Project objective

To achieve a thorough investigation for defect presence on a wind turbine blade, close inspection is required. This implies either trained staff tied with ropes on the blade or dismantling and transferring the blade in a workshop environment. While blade dismantling is scarcely used because it requires very long downtime, human inspection also involve a relatively high delay. A solution to this problem is to utilize specially designed platforms that can reach the blade and implement faster inspections on site. However, current systems are not very agile or cannot reach close enough to the blade in order to use a high quality nondestructive technique. Hence, they are mostly used to carry out mere visual inspections. To deal with the aforementioned challenge, our team will commercialize WInspector. WInspector consists of an agile robotic platform able to climb up the wind turbine tower and deploy an advanced Digital Shearography kit that carries out the inspection of a blade at a depth of up to 50mm. Users of WInspector benefit through early detecting emerging defects unseen in a visual inspection performed by competing solutions, with a significantly lower downtime for the WTB, and free of dangerous human labor. We have tested and validated the capabilities of WInspector in relevant environment and based on feedback received by wind farm operators, including project participant Gamesa and Iberdola (who has supported us in writing for this application), we are now ready to take the next steps and complete product development allowing us to bring WInspector into the market. Our vision is to grow our businesses by €19.88 million in gross sales by 2023 and keep growing at 58.8% annually from 2023 onwards. Through our business growth, we will create 181 new jobs. It is our strong belief that the Fast Track to Innovation Pilot is the ideal financial instrument for us to accelerate the procedures required for commercialization.

Deliverables

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Report on demonstrations in a working environment	Documents, reports	2020-01-30 08:56:39
Website and Advertising material	Documents, reports	2020-01-30 08:56:39

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Publications

List of publications.
year	authors and title	journal	last update
2016	Jianxin Gao Development of Advanced Shearography System for On-Site Inspection of Wind Turbine Blades published pages: , ISSN: , DOI:	The Wind Energy Sector a European Challenge 21-22 November 2016	2020-01-30
2019	J Gao, H Zheng, V Rosas, M Pachos, J Seton and X Echarte Azcarate On-site inspection of wind turbine blades using shearography with a robotic deployment system published pages: , ISSN: , DOI:	BINDT 2019, 58th Annual Conference 3-5 September 2019	2020-01-30

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