Smart wind turbine blades
Tue May 5 2009 7:30 am
by Bob Morris.
Embedded sensors in wind turbine blades help improve reliability and send real-time information to the control unit in a recent test by researchers.
Sensors such as these could be used in future generation turbine blades, and allow the turbine blades to change geometry to answer the changing wind conditions, much like airplane wings are able to change shape with moving surfaces (flaps, control surfaces).
Posted in: Renewable energy, Wind turbines.
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