Leading edge erosion of wind turbine blades: Understanding, prevention and protection

L Mishnaevsky Jr, CB Hasager, C Bak, AM Tilg… - Renewable Energy, 2021 - Elsevier
Surface erosion of wind turbine blades is one of rather critical problems of the wind energy
development. In this overview paper, recent studies in the mechanisms, modelling and …

Review of performance optimization techniques applied to wind turbines

A Chehouri, R Younes, A Ilinca, J Perron - Applied Energy, 2015 - Elsevier
This paper presents a review of the optimization techniques and strategies applied to wind
turbine performance optimization. The topic is addressed by identifying the most significant …

[HTML][HTML] Progress and trends in damage detection methods, maintenance, and data-driven monitoring of wind turbine blades–A review

K Kong, K Dyer, C Payne, I Hamerton… - Renewable Energy …, 2023 - Elsevier
In recent decades, renewable energy has attracted attention as a viable energy supply.
Among renewable energy sources, offshore wind energy has been considerably growing …

[HTML][HTML] The increasing importance of leading edge erosion and a review of existing protection solutions

R Herring, K Dyer, F Martin, C Ward - Renewable and Sustainable Energy …, 2019 - Elsevier
The offshore wind industry's pursuit of greater blade lengths and higher tip speeds, as well
as a move to new markets with monsoonal climates, has caused leading edge erosion to …

Ice protection systems for wind turbines in cold climate: characteristics, comparisons and analysis

O Fakorede, Z Feger, H Ibrahim, A Ilinca… - … and Sustainable Energy …, 2016 - Elsevier
The impact of icing on wind turbines and energy production in northern regions is a severe
problem. Therefore, emphasis on developing ice mitigation systems has become a …

Aerodynamic performance analysis of slotted airfoils for application to wind turbine blades

R Belamadi, A Djemili, A Ilinca, R Mdouki - Journal of wind engineering …, 2016 - Elsevier
In this paper we explore the improvement of aerodynamic characteristics of wind turbine
airfoils under stall conditions through passive boundary layer control using slots. Baseline …

Combined effect of passive vortex generators and leading-edge roughness on dynamic stall of the wind turbine airfoil

C Zhu, Y Qiu, Y Feng, T Wang, H Li - Energy Conversion and Management, 2022 - Elsevier
Dynamic stall causes the highly unsteady and nonlinear aerodynamic loads on wind
turbines. Recently, dynamic stall with passive vortex generators (VGs) and leading-edge …

Health and safety effects of airborne soil dust in the Americas and beyond

DQ Tong, TE Gill, WA Sprigg, RS Van Pelt… - Reviews of …, 2023 - Wiley Online Library
Risks associated with dust hazards are often underappreciated, a gap between the
knowledge pool and public awareness that can be costly for impacted communities. This …

Airborne dust-induced performance degradation in NREL phase VI wind turbine: a numerical study

J Zare, SE Hosseini, MR Rastan - International Journal of Green …, 2024 - Taylor & Francis
The meteorological conditions markedly affect the energy efficiencies and cost/power rate of
the wind turbines. The dusty environment is common in arid windy areas and airborne …

Imbalance classification in a scaled-down wind turbine using radial basis function kernel and support vector machines

T de Oliveira Nogueira, GBA Palacio, FD Braga… - Energy, 2022 - Elsevier
This work innovates by proposing the combination of DFA with the SVM and RBFK methods,
two supervised algorithms that use the kernel-method, for the imbalance level classification …