US 12,510,057 B2Granted

Wind turbine blade with lightning protection receptor

AssigneeKorea Electrotechnology Research Institute

InventorsJeong Min Woo, Sung Man Kang, Mun No Ju, Jae Bok Lee, Kyoung Joo Lee, Yu Min Kim, Ho Dong Kim, Kwae Hyup Nor, Sang Jin Kim

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Abstract

Proposed is a wind turbine blade with a lightning protection receptor. The wind turbine blade with a lightning protection receptor is a technology that allows for excellent lightning capture rate for both negative and positive lightning by improving lightning measures for conventional wind turbines, which are vulnerable to positive lightning, in line with the increasing wind turbine heights for large-scale power generation and the trend toward offshore wind power, and that minimizes post-repair/supplementary measures by limiting blade damage/coating peeling due to lightning strikes to a narrow area, unlike in the conventional case where damage or peeling of the coating occurs over the entire area of a blade when struck by lightning on an edge wire inserted into the lateral inner side of the blade.

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Dependent claims

A wind turbine blade with a lightning protection receptor, the blade comprising:

a blade body (110) disposed on a top of a tower of a wind turbine (1);
a tip receptor (120) provided at an outer end in a longitudinal direction (L) of the blade body (110);
side receptors (130) provided on front and rear surfaces (111a) and (111b) forming a side (111) of the blade body (110);
edge receptors (140) provided on an edge (112) of the blade body (110);
and
a down conductor (150) located in an internal space (113) of the blade body (110), and to which the tip receptor (120), the side receptors (130), and the edge receptors (140) are connected,
wherein the side receptors (130) are arranged at regular intervals within an area of a first arrangement distance (m) from the outer end in the longitudinal direction (L) of the blade body (110), whereas the edge receptors (140) are arranged at regular intervals within an area of a second arrangement distance (n) from a point spaced apart by the first arrangement distance (m) from the outer end in the longitudinal direction (L) of the blade body (110),
wherein the second arrangement distance (n) area where the edge receptors (140) are provided has a larger value than the first arrangement distance (m) area where the side receptors (130) are provided, so that lightning is induced to the edge receptors (140).

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