Neutral lightweight engineering: a holistic approach towards sustainability driven engineering

R Kupfer, L Schilling, S Spitzer, M Zichner… - Discover Sustainability, 2022 - Springer
The continuously growing social and political pressure to provide sustainable products is
forcing also the lightweight industry to rethink current development and manufacturing …

[HTML][HTML] Competitiveness of a low specific power, low cut-out wind speed wind turbine in North and Central Europe towards 2050

P Swisher, JPM Leon, J Gea-Bermúdez, M Koivisto… - Applied Energy, 2022 - Elsevier
This work is part of an ongoing study, creatively named the “LowWind Project”(Madsen et al.,
2020), whose goal is to investigate at what price point a hypothetical 3.4 MW 100 W/m 2 low …

[HTML][HTML] Effects of graphene reinforcement on static bending, free vibration, and torsion of wind turbine blades

HJ Kim, JR Cho - Materials, 2024 - mdpi.com
Renewable energy markets, particularly wind energy, have experienced remarkable growth,
predominantly driven by the urgent need for decarbonization in the face of accelerating …

[HTML][HTML] The eco-conscious wind turbine: design beyond purely economic metrics

H Canet, A Guilloré, CL Bottasso - Wind Energy Science, 2023 - wes.copernicus.org
Wind turbines are designed to minimize the economic cost of energy, a metric aimed at
making wind competitive with other energy-producing technologies. However, now that wind …

Feasibility of natural fibre usage for wind turbine blade components: A structural and environmental assessment

K Pender, K Bacharoudis, F Romoli, P Greaves… - Sustainability, 2024 - mdpi.com
There are two key areas of development across wind turbine blade lifecycles with the
potential to reduce the impact of wind energy generation:(1) deploying lower-impact …

[HTML][HTML] Intelligent optimized wind turbine cost analysis for different wind sites in Jordan

A Al-Quraan, B Al-Mhairat - Sustainability, 2022 - mdpi.com
Choosing the right wind site and estimating the extracted energy of the wind turbines are
essential to successfully establishing a wind farm in a specific wind site. In this paper, a …

Internal wind turbine blade inspections using UAVs: Analysis and design issues

A Kulsinskas, P Durdevic, D Ortiz-Arroyo - Energies, 2021 - mdpi.com
Interior and exterior wind turbine blade inspections are necessary to extend the lifetime of
wind turbine generators. The use of unmanned vehicles is an alternative to exterior wind …