Foundation for a wind turbine
AssigneeGamesa Innovation & Technology, S.L.
InventorCARLOS LEON PERFECTO
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Abstract
This invention comprises a wind turbine foundation with a hollow central body in the shape of a truncated cone which has an upper flange or a pedestal to connect with the tower (not shown), and a lower slab in the shape of a plane ring. In the preferred embodiment, the foundation leans the interior surface of the cone and the lower slab on earth from the local terrain, which takes on the role of permanent formwork; in an alternative embodiment, the interior of the foundation is left hollow and accommodates components of the wind turbine within it; and in a final alternative embodiment, the foundation is placed over the surface of the terrain which supports only the base of the lower slab, the central body not being buried.
Claims10
Wind turbine foundation with means of attachment to the tower at its upper part characterized because it consists of a solid of revolution in the shape of a hollow cone (1) whose interior surface is seated upon permanent formwork of non-excavated earth in the shape of a cone, and which has a second solid of revolution in the shape of a ring (2) at its lower base.
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