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| author | Roberge, Patrice Petterson, Jennifer Rittinghaus, Claas Godreau, Charles Froidevaux, Paul Gerber, Franziska Roeper, Daniela Wallenius, Tomas Bégin-Drolet, André |
| author_facet | Roberge, Patrice Petterson, Jennifer Rittinghaus, Claas Godreau, Charles Froidevaux, Paul Gerber, Franziska Roeper, Daniela Wallenius, Tomas Bégin-Drolet, André |
| contents | <p>With the model code for blade heating system performance envelopes, IEA Task 54, an international<br>expert group for wind energy in cold climate, is proposing a simplified theoretical<br>model for simulating performance envelopes of an active blade heating system’s efficiency<br>for various operational boundaries. The model is based on python code and comes with an<br>executable file to provide a user-friendly interface.<br>For wind energy projects being developed and operated in cold climate conditions, an IPS<br>(Ice Protection System) - often including a blade heating system - can be required both due<br>to financial aspects as well as legal aspects. Production losses from icing can easily amount<br>to the largest fraction of losses for a wind farm in cold climate conditions. Thus, projection<br>and assessment of the performance of technical solutions designed to mitigate icing losses is<br>of high importance. As of today, there is limited available knowledge on how to select a wellfitting<br>system for a specific turbine as well as for a specific location. Hence, IEA Wind Task<br>54 provides a tool to model the performance according to turbine specifics and meteorological<br>conditions.<br>The purpose of the tool is for the end-user to model different blade heating system performance<br>envelopes to either project if a specific system would be a suitable choice for the respective<br>meteorological conditions of a project location, or to use on existing turbines with blade<br>heating system to evaluate the system’s performance and respective limits. As the complexity<br>of simulating all the phenomena for a rotating turbine blade in a natural environment with a<br>variety of thermodynamic effects is too advanced, the methodology of the presented model<br>is based on the assumption of keeping the blade ice-free and does not incorporate the actual<br>effect of ice build-up and melting. On the other hand, this reflects the goal of implementing a<br>blade heating system quite well.</p> |
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| spellingShingle | Task 54 Blade heating Envelope model Roberge, Patrice Petterson, Jennifer Rittinghaus, Claas Godreau, Charles Froidevaux, Paul Gerber, Franziska Roeper, Daniela Wallenius, Tomas Bégin-Drolet, André <p>With the model code for blade heating system performance envelopes, IEA Task 54, an international<br>expert group for wind energy in cold climate, is proposing a simplified theoretical<br>model for simulating performance envelopes of an active blade heating system’s efficiency<br>for various operational boundaries. The model is based on python code and comes with an<br>executable file to provide a user-friendly interface.<br>For wind energy projects being developed and operated in cold climate conditions, an IPS<br>(Ice Protection System) - often including a blade heating system - can be required both due<br>to financial aspects as well as legal aspects. Production losses from icing can easily amount<br>to the largest fraction of losses for a wind farm in cold climate conditions. Thus, projection<br>and assessment of the performance of technical solutions designed to mitigate icing losses is<br>of high importance. As of today, there is limited available knowledge on how to select a wellfitting<br>system for a specific turbine as well as for a specific location. Hence, IEA Wind Task<br>54 provides a tool to model the performance according to turbine specifics and meteorological<br>conditions.<br>The purpose of the tool is for the end-user to model different blade heating system performance<br>envelopes to either project if a specific system would be a suitable choice for the respective<br>meteorological conditions of a project location, or to use on existing turbines with blade<br>heating system to evaluate the system’s performance and respective limits. As the complexity<br>of simulating all the phenomena for a rotating turbine blade in a natural environment with a<br>variety of thermodynamic effects is too advanced, the methodology of the presented model<br>is based on the assumption of keeping the blade ice-free and does not incorporate the actual<br>effect of ice build-up and melting. On the other hand, this reflects the goal of implementing a<br>blade heating system quite well.</p> |
| title | Task 54 Blade heating Envelope model |
| url | https://doi.org/10.5281/zenodo.15058134 |