Power Industry - Wind Turbine Test

Wind Turbines provide clean energy and are typically located in wind farms. To obtain the maximum power efficiency, the turbine blades need to be optimized in their shape and angle of attack. This research and development aerodynamic work is done with both CFD and wind tunnel testing. Scanivalve’s pressure scanners are ideal for measuring these pressures in actual full scale wind turbines to validate the modeling data. In the past several years wind turbine manufacturers have done research onsite by placing pressure scanners inside the blade root at stations along the length of a full size working turbine blade. These scanners can be either Scanivalve’s DSA3217 (16 channel scanner) or the ZOC33 (64 channel scanner) depending on number of pressures required. Real time pressures are measured at all angles of attack and at all wind speeds and in all weather conditions. These tests run 24/7 for months at a time.