Paquette blade workshop intro

1. Sandia National Laboratories is a multi-program laboratory managed and operated by Sandia Corporation, a wholly owned subsidiary of
Lockheed Martin Corporation, for the U.S. Department of Energy’s National Nuclear Security Administration under contract DE-AC04-94AL85000. SAND No. 2014-16992 PE
Josh Paquette
Albuquerque, NM
August 30th, 2016

2. Workshop Agenda
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Today
Opening Session
Trends in Blade Technology
Establishing a Successful Blade Maintenance Program
Blade RCA Processes
Tomorrow
Track 1
Power Performance, Wakes,
Modeling, and Rotor Design
Track 2
Materials, Manufacturing,
Transportation, and Operations
Thursday IEA Task 35
IEC 61400-5 Stakeholders
Blade Reliability
Collaborative
Scaled Rotor Testing: Tutorial
and Research Discussion
Forum

3. Surveys
Help us to understand
from your perspective:
§ State of Current
Technology
§ Existing R&D
Challenges
§ R&D Grand Challenges
with Highest Payoff
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4. Wind Blade Trends
§ Continued growth in
rotor diameters
§ Low-wind speed
turbines installed in
higher wind sites
§ Associated
decreases in specific
power
Source: LBNL

5. Thanks to Tonight’s Evening Reception
Sponsor:
Hexion
Thank you to all speakers.