R.Ice
| Project name: | R.Ice - Risk analysis for the impact of ice accretion at wind turbines |
| Project leader: | Andreas Krenn (Energiewerkstatt Verein, overall project lead) |
| Project team: | Heimo Truhetz (Post-Doc, project lead Uni Graz) Armin Leuprecht (Senior Post-Doc) |
| Partners: | Energiewerkstatt Verein Interessensgemeinschaft Windkraft Wien Energie GmbH AIT Austrian Institute of Technology GmbH TU Graz |
Sponsor: | FFG (Energy research programme, 2nd Call) |
| Duration: | Apr. 2016 – Dec. 2018 |
Abstract:
The utilisation of wind energy is limited by accretion of ice at wind turbines. Since ice fragments from wind turbines represent a safety risk measurements are required to reduce this risk to an acceptable level. Based on convection permitting meteorological models climatologies for icing and a map for icing covering the Austrian territory are being developed. By means of innovative imaging techniques applied to observed icing events at wind turbines size, number, and trajectories of falling ice fragments are being determined which serve as a basis for a definition of hazardous areas. Based on these analyses measurements and guidelines for a monitored reduction of the risk for icing are being elaborated together with lawyers and official experts.
Link: www.eisatlas.at
