GB2456484A - Wind turbine blade incorporating nanoclay - Google Patents

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GB2456484A
GB2456484A GB0909917A GB0909917A GB2456484A GB 2456484 A GB2456484 A GB 2456484A GB 0909917 A GB0909917 A GB 0909917A GB 0909917 A GB0909917 A GB 0909917A GB 2456484 A GB2456484 A GB 2456484A
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Thao Phung Ngoc
Erwin Merijn Wouterson
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    • FMECHANICAL ENGINEERING; LIGHTING; HEATING; WEAPONS; BLASTING
    • F03MACHINES OR ENGINES FOR LIQUIDS; WIND, SPRING, OR WEIGHT MOTORS; PRODUCING MECHANICAL POWER OR A REACTIVE PROPULSIVE THRUST, NOT OTHERWISE PROVIDED FOR
    • F03DWIND MOTORS
    • F03D80/00Details, components or accessories not provided for in groups F03D1/00 - F03D17/00
    • FMECHANICAL ENGINEERING; LIGHTING; HEATING; WEAPONS; BLASTING
    • F03MACHINES OR ENGINES FOR LIQUIDS; WIND, SPRING, OR WEIGHT MOTORS; PRODUCING MECHANICAL POWER OR A REACTIVE PROPULSIVE THRUST, NOT OTHERWISE PROVIDED FOR
    • F03DWIND MOTORS
    • F03D1/00Wind motors with rotation axis substantially parallel to the air flow entering the rotor 
    • F03D1/06Rotors
    • F03D1/065Rotors characterised by their construction elements
    • BPERFORMING OPERATIONS; TRANSPORTING
    • B82NANOTECHNOLOGY
    • B82YSPECIFIC USES OR APPLICATIONS OF NANOSTRUCTURES; MEASUREMENT OR ANALYSIS OF NANOSTRUCTURES; MANUFACTURE OR TREATMENT OF NANOSTRUCTURES
    • B82Y30/00Nanotechnology for materials or surface science, e.g. nanocomposites
    • CCHEMISTRY; METALLURGY
    • C08ORGANIC MACROMOLECULAR COMPOUNDS; THEIR PREPARATION OR CHEMICAL WORKING-UP; COMPOSITIONS BASED THEREON
    • C08JWORKING-UP; GENERAL PROCESSES OF COMPOUNDING; AFTER-TREATMENT NOT COVERED BY SUBCLASSES C08B, C08C, C08F, C08G or C08H
    • C08J5/00Manufacture of articles or shaped materials containing macromolecular substances
    • C08J5/005Reinforced macromolecular compounds with nanosized materials, e.g. nanoparticles, nanofibres, nanotubes, nanowires, nanorods or nanolayered materials
    • FMECHANICAL ENGINEERING; LIGHTING; HEATING; WEAPONS; BLASTING
    • F01MACHINES OR ENGINES IN GENERAL; ENGINE PLANTS IN GENERAL; STEAM ENGINES
    • F01DNON-POSITIVE DISPLACEMENT MACHINES OR ENGINES, e.g. STEAM TURBINES
    • F01D5/00Blades; Blade-carrying members; Heating, heat-insulating, cooling or antivibration means on the blades or the members
    • F01D5/12Blades
    • F01D5/28Selecting particular materials; Particular measures relating thereto; Measures against erosion or corrosion
    • F01D5/282Selecting composite materials, e.g. blades with reinforcing filaments
    • FMECHANICAL ENGINEERING; LIGHTING; HEATING; WEAPONS; BLASTING
    • F01MACHINES OR ENGINES IN GENERAL; ENGINE PLANTS IN GENERAL; STEAM ENGINES
    • F01DNON-POSITIVE DISPLACEMENT MACHINES OR ENGINES, e.g. STEAM TURBINES
    • F01D5/00Blades; Blade-carrying members; Heating, heat-insulating, cooling or antivibration means on the blades or the members
    • F01D5/12Blades
    • F01D5/28Selecting particular materials; Particular measures relating thereto; Measures against erosion or corrosion
    • F01D5/284Selection of ceramic materials
    • F03D11/00
    • FMECHANICAL ENGINEERING; LIGHTING; HEATING; WEAPONS; BLASTING
    • F05INDEXING SCHEMES RELATING TO ENGINES OR PUMPS IN VARIOUS SUBCLASSES OF CLASSES F01-F04
    • F05BINDEXING SCHEME RELATING TO WIND, SPRING, WEIGHT, INERTIA OR LIKE MOTORS, TO MACHINES OR ENGINES FOR LIQUIDS COVERED BY SUBCLASSES F03B, F03D AND F03G
    • F05B2280/00Materials; Properties thereof
    • F05B2280/40Organic materials
    • F05B2280/4003Synthetic polymers, e.g. plastics
    • FMECHANICAL ENGINEERING; LIGHTING; HEATING; WEAPONS; BLASTING
    • F05INDEXING SCHEMES RELATING TO ENGINES OR PUMPS IN VARIOUS SUBCLASSES OF CLASSES F01-F04
    • F05BINDEXING SCHEME RELATING TO WIND, SPRING, WEIGHT, INERTIA OR LIKE MOTORS, TO MACHINES OR ENGINES FOR LIQUIDS COVERED BY SUBCLASSES F03B, F03D AND F03G
    • F05B2280/00Materials; Properties thereof
    • F05B2280/60Properties or characteristics given to material by treatment or manufacturing
    • F05B2280/6003Composites; e.g. fibre-reinforced
    • FMECHANICAL ENGINEERING; LIGHTING; HEATING; WEAPONS; BLASTING
    • F05INDEXING SCHEMES RELATING TO ENGINES OR PUMPS IN VARIOUS SUBCLASSES OF CLASSES F01-F04
    • F05CINDEXING SCHEME RELATING TO MATERIALS, MATERIAL PROPERTIES OR MATERIAL CHARACTERISTICS FOR MACHINES, ENGINES OR PUMPS OTHER THAN NON-POSITIVE-DISPLACEMENT MACHINES OR ENGINES
    • F05C2225/00Synthetic polymers, e.g. plastics; Rubber
    • FMECHANICAL ENGINEERING; LIGHTING; HEATING; WEAPONS; BLASTING
    • F05INDEXING SCHEMES RELATING TO ENGINES OR PUMPS IN VARIOUS SUBCLASSES OF CLASSES F01-F04
    • F05CINDEXING SCHEME RELATING TO MATERIALS, MATERIAL PROPERTIES OR MATERIAL CHARACTERISTICS FOR MACHINES, ENGINES OR PUMPS OTHER THAN NON-POSITIVE-DISPLACEMENT MACHINES OR ENGINES
    • F05C2253/00Other material characteristics; Treatment of material
    • F05C2253/04Composite, e.g. fibre-reinforced
    • YGENERAL TAGGING OF NEW TECHNOLOGICAL DEVELOPMENTS; GENERAL TAGGING OF CROSS-SECTIONAL TECHNOLOGIES SPANNING OVER SEVERAL SECTIONS OF THE IPC; TECHNICAL SUBJECTS COVERED BY FORMER USPC CROSS-REFERENCE ART COLLECTIONS [XRACs] AND DIGESTS
    • Y02TECHNOLOGIES OR APPLICATIONS FOR MITIGATION OR ADAPTATION AGAINST CLIMATE CHANGE
    • Y02EREDUCTION OF GREENHOUSE GAS [GHG] EMISSIONS, RELATED TO ENERGY GENERATION, TRANSMISSION OR DISTRIBUTION
    • Y02E10/00Energy generation through renewable energy sources
    • Y02E10/70Wind energy
    • Y02E10/72Wind turbines with rotation axis in wind direction

Abstract

A wind turbine blade 1 comprises a polymeric matrix, which comprises a nanoclay N. The nano clay is provided to improve the blades barrier performance against moisture penetration, and also structural performance. The composite that includes nanoclay may be used in a spar cap, the skin or shell of the blade, or for a coating or adhesive.

Description

2456484
AN IMPROVED COMPOSITE WIND TURBINE BLADE TECHNICAL FIELD
5 The invention relates to a wind turbine blade comprising at least one polymeric matrix. BACKGROUND
In the wind power industry there is an increased focus on offshore applications and on 10 turbines with increased sizes and power outputs. This entails issues regarding the handling of turbine loads, as well as the environment in which the turbines are to operate.
SUMMARY
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An object of the invention is to increase the resistance of wind turbines to difficult environmental impact, such as in offshore applications.
Another object of the invention is to increase the load handling capacities of wind 20 turbines.
These objects are reached with a wind turbine blade comprising at least one polymeric matrix, at least one of the at least one polymeric matrix comprising a nanoclay.
25 Polymeric matrixes in this context refer to resins and adhesives such as epoxy, fibre-reinforced epoxy (carbon fibre/glass fibre), and polyurethane.
Nanoclays are known per se. (see for example Rice BP, Chen C, Cloos L, Curliss D. "Carbon fiber composites: Organoclay-aerospace epoxy nanocomposites, Part I.", 30 SAMPE Journal 37(5), 7 9 (2001), Zhou G et al., "Nanoclay and long-fiber-reinforced composites based on epoxy and phenolic resins", Journal of applied polymer science. Vol. 108, 3720-3726 (2008), or Marino Quaresimin, Russell J.
Varley "Understanding the cffcct of nano-modifier addition upon the properties of fibre reinforced laminates", Composites Scicncc and Technology 68 (2008) 718-726).
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Nanoclay composites are known for applications such as rubber coating, packaging, fuel systems, and electronics.
Nanoclays define surface modified montmonllonite clays, with at least one dimension 5 smaller than 100 nm, or masterbatches containing modified clays which are utilized to make a nanocomposite. Nanoclays (originated from clays) are also known as layered silicates. Framework layers of layered silicates are constructed by a combination of tetrahedral and octahedral sheets. Silica is the main component of a tetrahedral sheet while octahedral sheet comprises of many elements such as Al, Mg, and Fe. A natural 10 stacking of tetrahedral and octahedral sheet occurs in the specific ratios and modes, leading to the formation of 2:1 layer silicates.
Nanoclays can include Bentonite, which in turn can include Smectite, which is a clay mineral group characterized as an expanding clay mineral. Smectite group can be 15 further divided into montmorillonite (MMT), nontronite, saponite and hectorite species. Montmorillonite is a clay mineral with a 2:1 expanding crystal lattice. Generally, MMT surfaces are hydrophilic, having poor affinity with hydrophobic organic polymers. Therefore, a proper modification of the clay surfaces through the use of organic cations (e.g. alkyl ammonium cations) is employed, resulting in 20 'organoclays\ Organoclays can then be delaminated into nanoscale platelets by the polymer molecules, leading to the formation of polymer-clay nanocomposites.
Providing the polymeric matrix of a blade structure with a nanoclay will improve the blades' barrier properties which gives a good protection against moisture penetration, 25 which is specially advantageous for wind turbines in off-shore applications and high-moisture areas. The enhanced barrier properties are attributed to the tortuous path that the diffusing species (water or small molecules) must take to pass through the clay-modified nanocomposite. Besides improving the barrier properties, the addition of nanoclays to blade structures can improve the structural performance.
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DESCRPT10N OF THE FIGURES
Below, embodiments of the invention will be described with reference to the drawings, in which fig. 1 - fig. 4 show schematic cross-sections of polymer matrix composites, 5 and fig. 5 shows a schematic cross-section of a wind turbine blade.
DETAILED DESCRIPTION
In fig. 1 a path of diffusing species in a conventional polymer matrix composite is 10 indicated with an arrow. In fig. 2 - fig. 4 different paths of diffusing species in nanoclay-reinforced polymer matrix composites (intercalated and exfoliated) are indicated with arrows, the nanoclay being denoted N. It can be seen that the path lengths through the nanoclay-reinforced composites are longer than that of a conventional polymer matrix composite.
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Referring to fig. 5, preferably, the at least one polymeric matrix comprising a nanoclay is included in a carbon fibre and epoxy laminate spar cap 2 of the wind turbine blade 1. This will improve the tensile modulus of the carbon/epoxy laminate, thus enabling the possibility of reducing the carbon fibres. That leads to an efficient 20 weights saving as well as cost saving.
The nanoclay can be included in a variety of parts of the wind turbine blade. In an advantageous embodiment, the at least one polymeric matrix comprising a nanoclay is included in a blade shell 3 of the wind turbine blade. Thereby, the at least one 25 polymeric matrix comprising a nanoclay can be included in a structural composite material of the blade shell 3 This will improve barrier properties and the stiffness of the blade. The nanoclay can be included in the blade shell structure, regardless of whether it is produced from a pre-preg composite, an infusion resin process, or any other suitable composite manufacturing technique.
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The at least one polymeric matrix comprising a nanoclay can also be included in a coating of the blade shell, thereby improving barrier properties. Further, the at least one polymeric matrix comprising a nanoclay can be included in an adhesive 4 of the blade shell, for example adhesive used to join blade shell parts, or an adhesive joining
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the blade shell to the spar caps 2. The nanoclay inclusion in adhesives in this manner will improve the bond line's resistance to moisture.
Preferably, the amount of nanoclay in the polymeric matrix is within 1-3 wt%.
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Claims (1)

  1. 5 l.A wind turbine blade (1) comprising at least one polymeric matrix, at least one of the at least one polymeric matrix comprising a nanoclay (N).
    2. A wind turbine according to claim 1, wherein the at least one polymeric matrix comprising a nanoclay (N) is included in a carbon fibre and epoxy laminate
    10 spar cap (2) of the wind turbine blade (1).
    3. A wind turbine according to any one of the preceding claims, wherein the at least one polymeric matrix comprising a nanoclay (N) is included in a blade shell (3) of the wind turbine blade (1).
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    4. A wind turbine according to claim 3, wherein the at least one polymeric matrix comprising a nanoclay (N) is included in a structural composite material of the blade shell (3).
    20 5. A wind turbine according to any one of the claims 3-4, wherein the at least one polymeric matrix comprising a nanoclay (N) is included in a coating of the blade shell (3).
    6. A wind turbine according to any one of the claims 3-5, wherein the at least one
    25 polymeric matrix comprising a nanoclay (N) is included in an adhesive (4) of the blade shell.
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    7. A wind turbine according to any one of the preceding claims, wherein the amount of nanoclay (N) in the polymeric matrix is within 1-3 wt%.
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