TABLE 26 GLOBAL FIBER MARKET FOR WIND TURBINE BLADE, BY TYPES, 2009 – 2016 ($MILLION) TABLE 27 GLOBAL GLASS FIBER MARKET – SUPPLY VS DEMAND, 2008 – 2011 ...

Offshore wind turbines are becoming ever larger, and the transportation, installation, disassembly and disposal of their gigantic rotor blades are presenting operators with new challenges. Now ...

Pre-treatment-free coatable demonstrator of a rotor blade shell segment protected by the Peel Plas release film. Photo Credit, all images: Fraunhofer IFAM Within the joint project OptiBlade, ...

Wind turbine rotor blades are a high-technology product that must be produced at moderate cost for the resulting energy to be competitive in price. This means that the basic materials must provide a ...

Wind turbines deliver environmentally friendly electricity. Yet the fiber-reinforced plastics often used in very large rotor blades are almost impossible to recycle. Not so with steel blades: since ...

A research team from the Kiel University of Applied Sciences (HAW Kiel) is developing a process together with Nuebold Yachtbau GmbH that can reduce the expensive production of rotor blades for small ...

One of the wind energy industry’s top priorities is to maximize utilization rates by speeding up manufacturing processes in order to reduce unit costs and achieve a rapid payback on investments. The ...

DLR energy researchers have manufactured the first innovative rotor blade (Smartblade) that adapts to wind conditions using bending torsion coupling In the coming weeks, the rotor blade will undergo ...

Fraunhofer Institute for Wind Energy Systems IWES began researching the topic of automated rotor blade manufacturing ten years ago with the start of the »BladeMaker« project. The follow-up project ...

The characteristics that make composites, especially glass fiber-reinforced and wood/epoxy composites, suitable for wind turbine blades are low density, good mechanical properties, excellent corrosion ...