Development of Nacelle Assembly Lifting SystemCX(s) Applied: B3.6, B5.1Date: 09/14/2010Location(s): Golden, ColoradoOffice(s): Energy Efficiency and Renewable Energy
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September 14, 2010
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CX(s) Applied: B3.6, B5.1
Date: 09/14/2010
Location(s): Golden, Colorado
Office(s): Energy Efficiency and Renewable Energy
Native American Technologies has proposed a Phase III project with a goal to demonstrate the fabrication, on-site, and the self-erection of a wind energy system. This will include the research and development necessary to take the new welding process developed with American Recovery and Reinvestment Act funding and creating new welding procedures with testing and verification (American Welding Society standard testing guidelines will be used). Also included will be the research and development necessary to verify that a neural network based real-time weld monitoring system can be used for weld quality control. A secondary goal is to complete the International Electrotechnical Commission (IEC) Type Certification for the tower, by operating a turbine on a full-scale tower with instrumentation to document and verify that the finally erected tower is reacting to wind and turbine loading in accordance with the computer aided design (CAD) model and as predicted by the finite element analysis (FEA) modeling of the tower in operational situations.