Extreme Weather Conditions And Wind Turbines

There are undesired effects on turbine healthy and performance due to extreme weather conditions. 

Extremely cold temperature (North America, North China etc..): There is problem with wind speed and direction sensor if they are rotating cup and vane, for cold region installations electronic sensors are used. The DC power supply/batteries for pitch control system may experience charging problem in cold.

Hot temperature (South India, Africa etc) : This may cause overheating of electronics components and may need to operate the turbine in reduced power mode to avoid any component damage.

Blades may experience dust/ice deposition in extreme hot/cold temperature which leads to performance reduction.

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categories Wind Energy | | March 4, 2009

categories China, power plant, Renewable Energy Corporation

One Response to “Extreme Weather Conditions And Wind Turbines”

  1. Miroslav Tesic says:
    March 4, 2009 at 5:23 pm

    TURBINA VAWT Technology is tested on extreme weather conditions, see video on youtube

    http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=bNm7imsJyKc

    TURBINA VAWT – Vertical axis wind turbine is technical innvention of TURBINA IPD company and innovative solution for power production with the maximal environmental protection.

    Principle of work: Stator vanes directs wind flow to the rotor blades to drive the turbine and redirecting him from rotor blades wherein power of wind oppose rotation of turbine wherever direction the wind blows, therefore here has not air resistance and has not noise.

    Techical adventages: independent from the wind direction, simple to build, simple for transport, simple maintenance, work on extremly high wind speeds, can be used in urban zones, arhitecturally integrated wind turbine in diferent colors, safe for birds and people, noiseless, simple to install from modular components, serial connection on one tower, multifunctional (telecommunication charge, street lamps, house systems, pump water, heating, on greed systems, etc.), low cut-in wind speed, long lifetime, commercial space, can be combinated with solar pannels etc.

    In several weeks we starts with firs commercial TURBINA VAWT products.

    Kind Regards
    Miroslav Tesic
    TURBINA IPD ltd CEO

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