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One-day wind session at Design and Manufacturing Show

By Paul Dvorak | July 3, 2009

A one-day session on the windpower industry will introduce attendees to turbine fundamentals, blade design, designing to cost, supply chain issues, and more.

Windpower explained — Design and component integration,  is scheduled for Wednesday, Sept 23 at the Design and Manufacturing Show, Rosemont, IL.

Moderator Paul Dvorak, Editor of Windpower Engineering Magazine, will host a range of speakers from industry and government labs.

The session is intended for engineers, managers, and others related or interested in learning the design fundamentals of wind-turbine blade and drive trains along with a real world applications from leading OEM’s in the windpower market. Topics and speakers will include:

Market Overview and Funding: invited speaker

Drive Train: Sandy Butterfield, Wind Program Chief Engineer, National Wind Technology Center, National Renewable Energy Laboratory

Attendees will learn:

  • Wind-turbine fundamentals
  • Drivetrain configurations
  • Drivetrain design issues and challenges
  • Wind-turbine gearbox standards
  • Gearbox lubrication systems
  • Gearbox condition monitoring

Blade Design: Paul Veers, Distinguished Member of the Technical Staff, Wind Energy Technology Department, Sandia National Laboratories

Attendees will learn:

  • Fundamental role of rotor design options in wind plant capacity factor and cost of energy
  • Significant differences between wind turbine blades and other composite structures.
  • Basic approach to blade design and manufacturing
  • Blade design evaluation: analysis and test
  • Blade reliability issues
  • Innovations in blades and turbine control

Part I: Integrating Parts into Systems: Lawrence D. Willey, P.E., Advanced Technology Operations Manager, Wind Systems Conceptual Design

Attendees will learn:

  • Value Engineering throughout all aspects of turbine and component technology development
  • Design to cost (DTC) – Not just about increasing output (e.g., AEP)
  • Design load impact on trends for large (MW sized) wind turbine technology
  • System and component considerations for real environments
  • How suppliers can better approach OEMs with new ideas

Part II: Integrating Parts into Systems: Troy Patton, President, Utility Scale Wind

Attendees will learn:

  • Design for Manufacturing/Assembly lessons learned
  • Service considerations during System Integration
  • Value of Rapid Prototyping
  • Quoting prototype, beta series, and production parts

Part III: Integrating Parts into Systems: invited speaker

Panel Discussion: Faculty

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