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I-Corps: Value-Added Products from Decommissioned Composite Material Wind Turbine Blades

I-Corps：退役复合材料风力涡轮机叶片的增值产品

基本信息

批准号：
2042029
负责人：
Russell Gentry
金额：
$ 5万
依托单位：
Georgia Tech Research Corporation
依托单位国家：
美国
项目类别：
Standard Grant
财政年份：
2020
资助国家：
美国
起止时间：
2020-08-01 至 2023-01-31
项目状态：
已结题

来源：
https://www.nsf.gov/awardsearch/showAward?AWD_ID=2042029&HistoricalAwards=false
关键词：
Corps Value Added Products Decommissioned

项目摘要

The broader impact/commercial potential of this I-Corps project is to explore translation of mass-market architectural, engineering and construction (AEC) products produced from repurposed Fiber Reinforced Polymer (FRP) composite wind turbine blades. FRP wind turbine blades are made from high quality composite materials but do not recycle into new FRP materials. As a result, obsolete blades are currently disposed in a landfill or incinerated. These disposal methods are problematic from an economic, environmental, and social perspective. Thousands of first-generation wind turbines are currently being decommissioned and the blades stockpiled for want of alternative disposal solutions. Using the proposed technology, the wind blades will be converted to electrical power transmission structures and other large-scale civil infrastructure products using proprietary software and hardware developed by the research. This I-Corps project is based on the development of algorithms and software for wind blade modeling and analysis and in methods for wind blade re-use. The algorithms create geometric and structural models of wind turbine blades automatically from point clouds built from laser scans or photographs. The algorithms also create engineering property data required for structural analysis of the re-use structures under civil engineering loading conditions, which are quite different from the aerodynamic loading for which the wind blades were originally designed. The software includes methods for the automated production of digital models of the wind blades, for visualization, product design, structural design and analysis, and fabrication and construction, all starting from the proprietary processing of digitized scans of the blades using LIDAR or photogrammetry. In addition, new methods and hardware may facilitate structural re-use applications of the wind blades in large-scale civil infrastructure applications. Further research provides the ability to predict the remaining life in the composite materials within the decommissioned wind turbine blades and safe stress limits for use in various re-use applications.This award reflects NSF's statutory mission and has been deemed worthy of support through evaluation using the Foundation's intellectual merit and broader impacts review criteria.

这个i-Corps项目的更广泛的影响/商业潜力是探索大众市场建筑、工程和建筑(AEC)产品的翻译，这些产品是由重新调整用途的纤维增强聚合物(FRP)复合材料风力涡轮机叶片生产的。玻璃钢风力涡轮机叶片由高质量复合材料制成，但不会回收成新的玻璃钢材料。因此，废弃的叶片目前要么被丢弃在垃圾填埋场，要么被焚烧。这些处置方法从经济、环境和社会角度来看都是有问题的。数以千计的第一代风力涡轮机目前正在退役，由于缺乏替代处置解决方案，叶片正在囤积。利用拟议的技术，风叶将转化为电力传输结构和其他大型民用基础设施产品，使用研究开发的专有软件和硬件。该i-Corps项目的基础是开发用于风叶建模和分析的算法和软件，以及风叶重复使用的方法。这些算法根据激光扫描或照片建立的点云，自动创建风力涡轮机叶片的几何和结构模型。这些算法还创建了在土木工程载荷条件下对重复使用结构进行结构分析所需的工程特性数据，这与风叶最初设计时所针对的气动载荷有很大不同。该软件包括自动生成风力叶片数字模型的方法，用于可视化、产品设计、结构设计和分析以及制造和建造，所有这些都始于使用激光雷达或摄影测量对叶片进行数字化扫描的专有处理。此外，新的方法和硬件可能会促进风叶在大型民用基础设施应用中的结构重用应用。进一步的研究提供了预测退役风力涡轮机叶片内复合材料的剩余寿命和在各种重复使用应用中使用的安全应力极限的能力。该奖项反映了NSF的法定使命，并通过使用基金会的智力优势和更广泛的影响审查标准进行评估，被认为值得支持。

项目成果

期刊论文数量（7）

专著数量（0）

科研奖励数量（0）

会议论文数量（0）

专利数量（0）

A Digital Process for Reconstructing Wind Turbine Blade Geometry from Point Cloud Data

从点云数据重建风力涡轮机叶片几何形状的数字过程

DOI：
发表时间：
2022
期刊：
5th International Conference on Structures and Architecture
影响因子：
0
作者：
Kiernicki, C.;Kakkad, S.;Bermek, M.;Gentry, R.
通讯作者：
Gentry, R.

An integrated geospatial approach for repurposing wind turbine blades

DOI：
10.1016/j.resconrec.2021.105601
发表时间：
2021-04-19
期刊：
RESOURCES CONSERVATION AND RECYCLING
影响因子：
13.2
作者：
Delaney, Emma L.;McKinley, Jennifer M.;Gentry, Russell
通讯作者：
Gentry, Russell

BladeBridge - Design and Construction of a Pedestrian Bridge using Decommissioned Wind Turbine Blades

BladeBridge - 使用退役风力涡轮机叶片设计和建造人行天桥

DOI：
发表时间：
2022
期刊：
5th International Conference on Structures and Architecture
影响因子：
0
作者：
Zhang, Z.;Ruane, K.;Huynh, A.;McDonald, A.;Leahy, P.;Alshannaq, A.;Gentry, R.;Nagle, A.;Bank, L.
通讯作者：
Bank, L.

Structural Analysis of a Wind Turbine Blade Repurposed as an Electrical Transmission Pole

风力涡轮机叶片改作输电杆的结构分析