Wind turbine rotor blade and wind turbine

Patent metadata

Field	Value
Publication number	US-12025103-B2
Application number	US-202318350475-A
Country	US
Kind code	B2
Filing date	Jul 11, 2023
Priority date	Jul 12, 2022
Publication date	Jul 2, 2024
Grant date	Jul 2, 2024

Abstract

A wind turbine rotor blade, with a length, a rotor blade root, a rotor blade tip, a pressure side, a suction side, a leading edge, a trailing edge, and an air guide for heated air to guide heated air inside of the rotor blade and along a longitudinal direction of the rotor blade from the rotor blade root in the direction of the rotor blade tip. The wind turbine rotor blade additionally comprises at least one passively controllable air control element in the area of the air guide. The invention further relates to a wind turbine with at least one wind turbine rotor blade.

First claim

The invention claimed is:

1. A wind turbine rotor blade comprising:
a rotor blade body having:
a longitudinal length,
a rotor blade root,
a rotor blade tip,
a pressure side,
a suction side,
a rotor blade wall, and
an inner volume,

an air guide for guiding heated air inside of the rotor blade body and along the longitudinal direction of the rotor blade from the rotor blade root to the rotor blade tip, and
at least one passively controllable air control element to control or influence an air flow in an area of the air guide and in the inner volume.

2. The wind turbine rotor blade according to claim 1 , wherein the passively controllable air control element has a temperature-dependent section, wherein the temperature-dependent section changes shape depending on the temperature.

3. The wind turbine rotor blade according to claim 1 , wherein:
the air guide has at least one web arranged between the pressure side and the suction side, and extends along the longitudinal direction of the rotor bladebody,
the at least one passively controllable air control element is arranged along the at least one web.

4. The wind turbine rotor blade according to claim 1 , wherein the passively controllable air control element has a bimaterial element having first and second material sections with different heat expansion coefficients.

5. The wind turbine rotor blade according to claim 1 , wherein the passively controllable air control element is designed as a flow deflection element with a bimetal element with first and second bimetal sections.

6. The wind turbine rotor blade according to claim 1 , wherein the passively controllable air control element is a passively controllable static mixer with a bimaterial element, wherein a shape of the bimaterial element depends on temperature.

7. The wind turbine rotor blade according to claim 1 , wherein:
the passively controllable air control element has at least one passively controlled swirl generator, and
the passively controlled swirl generator has a bimaterial element with first and second bimaterial sections, wherein heat expansion coefficients of the first and second bimaterial sections are different from each other.

8. The wind turbine rotor blade according to claim 1 , wherein:
the passively controllable air control element has at least first and second operating positions,
the passively controllable air control element actively influences air controller in the first operating position, and
air flow is not influenced in the second operating position.

9. The wind turbine rotor blade according to claim 1 , wherein:
the passively controllable air control element has at least first and second operating positions,
the control element does not influence air flow in the first operating position, and
the air control element actively influences air flow in the second operating position.

10. The wind turbine rotor blade according to claim 1 , wherein the at least one passively controllable air control element is arranged along an inner wall of the rotor blade body.

11. A wind turbine comprising at least one wind turbine rotor blade according to claim 1 .

Assignees

• Wobben Properties Gmbh

Inventors

• Daboul Hussam
• Mahmoud Muhanad
• Godenau Diethelm

Classifications

• F03D1/0675

  of the blades · CPC title

• F03G7/064

  characterised by its use · CPC title

• Y02E10/72

  Wind turbines with rotation axis in wind direction · CPC title

• F03D80/40 Primary

  Ice detection; De-icing means · CPC title

• F03D80/402 Primary

  De-icing by convective heating · CPC title