Large-Scale Additive Manufacturing for Low Cost Small-Scale Wind Turbine Manufacturing

Brian K. Post, Phillip C. Chesser, Alex C. Roschli, Lonnie J. Love, Katherine T. Gaul

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Abstract

Oak Ridge National Laboratory’s Manufacturing Demonstration Facility worked with XZERES Wind to fabricate small (in comparison to traditional wind energy systems) wind turbine blades using large-scale polymer additive manufacturing (AM). The results of this project showed promise for the use of AM in the production of small wind energy systems. Although, the large-scale polymer AM systems available for this project proved to be too large for this application, ORNL and XZERES Wind were able to prove that AM is a viable opportunity to improve small wind turbine blades.
Original languageEnglish
Place of PublicationUnited States
DOIs
StatePublished - 2018

Keywords

  • 17 WIND ENERGY
  • 42 ENGINEERING

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