Three collaborate to produce turbine blades
June 22, 2009 by Paul Dvorak
Filed under Materials
Endurance Wind Power says its E3120 produces more power than others of comparable size. The unit, built to work in moderate to high winds, is ideal for farmers, small businesses, large homes in areas of North America that have net metering restrictions of 40 kW and up. The turbine can produce in excess of 180,000 kWh/yr depending on wind conditions.
Three companies will collaborate to produce wind turbine blades at the Amtech LLC North American manufacturing facility in Washington state. Amtech is a fabricator of large scale and complex geometry composite products. The other two companies include Endurance Wind Power Inc, a North American producer of small to mid-size induction generators and grid-connected (inverterless) wind turbines, and Ashland Performance Materials, a manufacturer of unsaturated polyester resins and epoxy vinyl-ester resins.
“Ashland’s resins for wind energy let Amtech produce lightweight, high-quality blades for Endurance,” says Amtech CEO Douglas Christie. The table includes a few specs.
A peek inside the Endurance nacelle.
Windpower Engineering Editor Paul Dvorak is an experienced mechanical engineer. Paul has seven years of hands on mechanical engineering experience and 23 years of technical writing. Paul is constantly in correspondence with wind turbine manufacturers and wind power researchers. Thanks to this correspondence, he is able to write about wind engineering topics before any other editor in the wind space.
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