Power-Up: Dual Wind Turbines and Modular Blades

The Uptime Wind Energy Podcast

First up, Aerodyn Consulting's patent for a single point mooring system with dual wind turbines. This concept is only being utilized by MingYang for their OceanX wind turbine so far, but it's promising. Then Newtech Group's method for connecting modular wind turbine blades, which could make the concept more viable. Finally, a method for keeping your dogs ears out of their food. Sign up now for Uptime Tech News, our weekly email update on all things wind technology. This episode is sponsored by Weather Guard Lightning Tech. Learn more about Weather Guard's StrikeTape Wind Turbine LPS retrofit. Follow the show on Facebook, YouTube, Twitter, Linkedin and visit Weather Guard on the web. And subscribe to Rosemary Barnes' YouTube channel here. Have a question we can answer on the show? Email us! Pardalote Consulting - https://www.pardaloteconsulting.comWeather Guard Lightning Tech - www.weatherguardwind.comIntelstor - https://www.intelstor.com Allen Hall: Welcome to Power Up, the Uptime podcast focused on the new, hot off the press technology that can change the world. Follow along with me, Allen Hall, and IntelStor's Phil Totaro, as we discuss the weird, the wild, and the game changing ideas that will charge your energy future. Phil, another busy week in the ID and patent world. And we're going to start off with the single point mooring wind turbine with two wind energy conversion units. That's a complicated name for something that seems rather simple from Aerodyn Consulting over in Singapore. And this idea has been implemented by MinYang and we've seen this, I think it's called OceanX, where they have two independent turbines on a platform. a master controller for the two and it's floating and it points itself on a single mooring system But there's more details to that you want to explain what else they have going on in this idea. Philip Totaro: Yeah, so this this is a pretty complicated and but clever idea And I actually want to take a step back and talk about the fact that nobody else in the industry at this point is using this technology other than Ming Yang, who's licensed the design from, from Aerodyn. And, and again, what this does is it's going to ensure that. Basically, the, the platform that has these two counter rotating turbines on it doesn't basically kind of yaw itself or shake itself apart from, from having the having the both rotors pointed in, in different directions. Directions that they shouldn't be pointed in. So the mooring system is kind of helping with with that to an extent. But it's also ensuring that the entire platform is able to yaw into into the wind in a way that's going to be favorable, including the typhoon that this thing actually just survived over in China. So when they deployed this prototype, it's, in a typhoon prone area. And it seems like this single mooring system did his job pretty well. Joel Saxum: Yeah, the single point mooring is not a new concept, right? It's just with this patent, it's filed with the addition of the twin rotor and how that thing works together. But single point mooring has been used offshore and oil and gas world for a very long time. There's a, There's a type of vessel called an FPSO. It's a floating production and storage and offloading facility. But these things are massive. If you've ever seen an offshore, what they, it looks like an offshore oil rig. They look like a big ship, but usually they aren't powered or anything. They're drug out there by tugs and they're hooked up to what is called the single point mooring system. And that single point mooring system is a way of affixing that structure topside to one spot and then it can rotate around it. in production and one of the downfalls of this this setup for operations and maintenance is not so much with this ming yang machine because it's a 16 megawatt machine it's a big big thing but if you have to put a lot of these out there a single point more Needs to be anchored off...