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US 2014/0109407 A1Published application
Method and system for replacing a single wind turbine blade
AssigneeGeneral Electric Company
InventorsUlrich Werner Neumann, Charles Van Buchan, Blake Allen Fulton, Vishan Rashmi Kulasekera, Bradley Graham Moore, Esat Sadi Yenigun
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Abstract
A method of replacing a wind turbine blade includes suspending the wind turbine blade from support hub of a wind turbine, connecting one or more cable climbing members between the support hub and the wind turbine blade, and lowering the one or more cable climbing members and the wind turbine blade from the support hub.
Claims20
A method of replacing a wind turbine blade comprising:
- suspending the wind turbine blade from a support hub of a wind turbine;
- connecting one or more cable climbing members between the support hub and the wind turbine blade;
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- lowering the one or more cable climbing members and the wind turbine blade from the support hub.
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A system for lowering a wind turbine blade mounted to a support hub, the system comprising:
- one or more support members extending between the wind turbine blade and the support hub;
- one or more jacking members operatively coupled to corresponding ones of the one or more support members;
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- one or more cable climbing members operatively connected between the support hub and the wind turbine blade, the one or more jacking members being configured and disposed to transfer support of the wind turbine blade from the one or more support members to the one or more cable climbing members.
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Dependencies are inferred from the claim text.