Predicting the icing risk of wind turbine rotor blades using aircraft icing tools

Predicting the icing risk of wind turbine rotor blades using aircraft icing tools

Spranger, L.L.C.C.

Timmer, W.A. (mentor)
Sørensen, J.N. (mentor)
Stoevesandt, B. (mentor)
Strickmann, G. (mentor)

Aerospace Engineering

Aerodynamics, Wind Energy & Propulsion

EWEM European Wind Energy Master

2016-06-27

As on-shore wind farms are being installed in colder and harsher climatic areas in increasing numbers, it becomes more and more important to have adequate measures for dealing with rotor blade icing. Rotor blade icing can lead to a number of serious consequences for the safety, power production, and operation of a wind turbine or entire wind farm. As part of a research project on wind turbine icing carried out by the German government, a method to estimate the icing risk for a wind turbine rotor at an early stage has been developed and programmed in Python for the wind turbine manufacturer Enercon. This ‘Kalkulativer Icing Risk Analyser’, in short ‘KIRA’, uses discretised wind turbine blade geometry and meteorological icing parameters as input to determine the icing risk of the rotor by using a critical icing rate limit that is characteristic to a certain wind turbine type. The method for determining this icing rate limit has been employed on the Enercon E-82 2MW wind turbine using a power curve comparison strategy.

Windenergy

http://resolver.tudelft.nl/uuid:fcd6522c-9139-48f6-be1b-55b509b588c1

2021-06-27

Student theses

master thesis

(c) 2016 Spranger, L.L.C.C.