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Wind Turbines: Current Status, Trends and Challenges Technologies
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Wind Turbines: Current Status, Trends and Challenges Technologies

A special issue of Applied Sciences (ISSN 2076-3417). This special issue belongs to the section "Energy Science and Technology".

Deadline for manuscript submissions: closed (20 December 2022) | Viewed by 9273

Special Issue Editors

Prof. Dr. Daniel Villanueva Torres

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Departamento de Enxeñería Eléctrica, Universidade de Vigo, EEI, Campus de Lagoas-Marcosende, 36310 Vigo, Spain
Interests: electric energy storage; renewable energy; electric energy in buildings; electrical installations; electric vehicle; optimization of electric energy
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Prof. Dr. Andrés Elías Feijóo Lorenzo

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Departamento de Enxeñería Eléctrica, Universidade de Vigo, EEI, Campus de Lagoas-Marcosende, 36310 Vigo, Spain
Interests: power curve models; simulation of wind turbines; wind farm layout optimization; wind power models; wind power distributions; wind speed data analysis; wind speed simulation
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Special Issue Information

Dear Colleagues,

We are inviting submissions to a Special Issue titled: Wind Turbines: Current Status, Trends and Challenges Technologies.

Wind turbines have been technologically upgraded in a significative way during the last 30 years. However, there is still progress to be made. Recent technological developments may have a considerable impact on new designs; in the processes of manufacturing, transportation and installation; and on the results of exploitation. Therefore, analyzing the current status of the technologies involved, focusing on current trends, and stating the  potential challenges that may be solved in the near future, are of high interest for researchers in this field.

In this Special Issue, we invite submissions that describe, review, or analyze the current status of wind turbines as well as related state-of-the-art technological trends and future challenges in win turbine designing, manufacturing, transportation, installation, and exploitation.

Prof. Dr. Daniel Villanueva Torres
Prof. Dr. Andrés Elías Feijóo Lorenzo
Guest Editors

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Keywords

  • wind turbines
  • design
  • manufacturing
  • transport
  • installation
  • exploitation
  • energy efficiency
  • wind farm
  • technology
  • trend
  • challenge

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19 pages, 8323 KiB  
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Wind Turbine Technology Trends
by Mladen Bošnjaković, Marko Katinić, Robert Santa and Dejan Marić
Appl. Sci. 2022, 12(17), 8653; https://0-doi-org.brum.beds.ac.uk/10.3390/app12178653 - 29 Aug 2022
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The rise in prices of traditional energy sources, the high dependence of many countries on their import, and the associated need for security of supply have led to large investments in new capacity of wind power plants. Although wind power generation is a [...] Read more.
The rise in prices of traditional energy sources, the high dependence of many countries on their import, and the associated need for security of supply have led to large investments in new capacity of wind power plants. Although wind power generation is a mature technology and levelized cost of electricity low, there is still room for its improvement. A review of available literature has indicated that wind turbine development in the coming decade will be based on upscaling wind turbines and minor design improvements. These include further improvements in rotor blade aerodynamics, active control of the rotor blade rotation system, and aerodynamic brakes that will lead to increased power generation efficiency. Improvements in system maintenance and early diagnosis of transmission and power-related faults and blade surface damage will reduce wind turbine downtime and increase system reliability and availability. The manufacture of wind turbines with larger dimensions presents problems of transportation and assembly, which are being addressed by manufacturing the blades from segments. Numerical analysis is increasingly being used both in wind turbine efficiency analysis and in stress and vibration analysis. Direct drive is becoming more competitive with traditional power transmission through a gearbox. The trend in offshore wind farms is to increase the size of wind turbines and to place them farther from the coast and in deeper water, which requires new forms of floating foundations. Due to the different work requirements and more difficult conditions of the marine environment, optimization methods for the construction of offshore substructures are currently being developed. There are plans to use 66-kV cables for power transmission from offshore wind farms instead of the current 33-kV cables. Offshore wind farms can play an important role in the transition to a hydrogen economy. In this context, significant capacity is planned for the production of “green” hydrogen by electrolysis from water. First-generation wind turbines are nearing the end of their service life, so strategies are being developed to repower them, extend their life or dismantle and recycle them. Full article
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