Biomimetic Advanced Composite Polymer for Wind Turbine Blade

主要研究者：Amano，Ryoichi提案编号：1236312机构：威斯康星大学密尔沃基分校题目：仿生先进复合聚合物风力涡轮机叶片风力涡轮机是零排放和风能是可再生的和无成本的;然而，风能转换系统产生和获得的电量是不稳定的，相对昂贵的，并且难以集成到传统的电力系统，因为风的来源和未解决的能量存储问题的变化。此外，绝大多数可用的风太慢，这使得收集风能更加困难，并且易于收集的风能主要局限于偏远地区，这使得配电困难。为了实现在中到低风力区域增强功率的经济可行性，涡轮机设计的显著进步对于增加功率收集是必要的。该项目采用创新的自我修复方法研究叶片断裂自我修复系统。 拟议的项目建立在PI？为了提高风力涡轮机的性能，降低噪声辐射，并实现自修复机制，以纠正风力涡轮机在运行过程中的故障，我们对一种创新的、功率高效的风力涡轮机叶片进行了实验研究。该任务将通过引入基于聚合物的自我修复概念来修复风力涡轮机叶片来实现。拟议的研究将在威斯康星大学密尔沃基分校（UWM）的能源中心进行。沿着中心？PI与其他合作伙伴公司合作，将为风力涡轮机诊断和预测研究创建一个测试平台和实验数据集，可供该领域的其他研究人员使用。纤维增强复合材料的使用已经迅速增长，并且这种复合材料经常用于航空航天和其他应用;然而，对于复合材料在冲击载荷之后的结构完整性的担忧仍然存在，因为它们容易在结构内部深处形成裂纹或分层。随着风力涡轮机叶片自修复技术的成功，风力涡轮机叶片中的任何裂纹部件都可以在运行过程中愈合，而无需任何系统停机。因此，本研究将对现有的风力涡轮机故障预防方法有所启发，并为适合21世纪世纪风能时代的涡轮机叶片新材料提供新的概念和方法。本项目将与东南威斯康星州风能教育合作项目目前正在开发的课程完全整合，这是一个与密尔沃基地区技术学院的联合项目，由美国能源部资助。该课程将补充UWM现有的风能课程，覆盖本科生和研究生，并增加劳动力中工程师的供应。此外，PI将通过UWM“儿童/青少年学院”暑期项目与少数民族和女学生合作，为大学预科学生提供研究机会。研究结果将在PI及其合作者在瑞典组织的国际研讨会上传播，与会者包括年轻教师，代表性不足的群体和妇女以及研究生。

PI: Amano, RyoichiProposal Number: 1236312Institution: University of Wisconsin-MilwaukeeTitle: Biomimetic Advanced Composite Polymer for Wind Turbine BladeWind turbines are emissions-free and wind is renewable and cost-free; however, the amount of electricity generated and obtained by wind energy conversion systems is unsteady, relatively expensive, and difficult to integrate into traditional electricity systems because of the variation in wind source and unresolved energy storage issues. Furthermore, the vast majority of available wind is too slow, which makes collecting wind power more difficult, and the easy-to-collect wind energy is primarily confined to remote locations, which makes electricity distribution difficult. In order to achieve economic feasibility in enhancing the power in medium- to low-wind areas, significant advances in turbine design are necessary for increased power collection. This project investigates a blade breakage self-repair system with an innovative self-healing approach. The proposed project builds upon the PI?s experimental research of an innovative, power-efficient wind turbine blade to improve wind turbine performance, reduce noise radiation, and to implement a self-repair mechanism to correct wind turbine failure during operation. The task will be achieved by introducing a polymer-based self-healing concept to repair the wind turbine blades. The proposed research will be conducted in the Energy Center at the University of Wisconsin-Milwaukee (UWM). Along with the Center?s partner companies, the PI will create a test bed and experimental datasets for wind turbine diagnosis and prognosis research that can be used by other researchers in this field.The composite blades are manufactured using a laborious, hand lay-up technique with glass fiber reinforcements. The use of fiber-reinforced composite materials has grown rapidly and such composites are often used in aerospace and other applications; however, concerns remain about the structural integrity of composite materials following impact loading, as they are susceptible to cracks or delaminations that form deep within the structure. With the success of the self-healing technology for wind turbine blades, any cracked parts in wind turbine blades can be healed during operation without any system shutting down. Therefore, this research will shed light on the existing wind turbine failure prevention methods, and provide new concepts and approaches for new materials of turbine blades suitable for the 21st century wind energy era.This project will be fully integrated with the curriculum currently being developed by the Southeast Wisconsin Wind Energy Educational Collaborative program, a joint project with Milwaukee Area Technical College that is funded by the U.S. Department of Energy. This curriculum will complement existing wind energy courses at UWM, reach undergraduate and graduate students, and increase the supply of engineers in the workforce. In addition, the PI will work with minority and female students through the UWM "College for Kids/Teens" summer program to provide research opportunities to pre-college students. The research findings will be disseminated at an international workshop organized by the PI and his collaborators in Sweden, where participants, including young faculty, underrepresented groups and women, and graduate students will be invited.