Transporting wind turbine blades up the mountain
DOE national laboratory researchers have determined a way to transport massive wind turbine blades at a lower cost, by designing them to bend, or deflect, by 20%.
DOE national laboratory researchers have determined a way to transport massive wind turbine blades at a lower cost, by designing them to bend, or deflect, by 20%.
Larger wind turbines mean longer blades. Fifteen years ago, wind turbines were rarely taller than 280 feet, but today the average turbine is taller than that. And although wind turbine manufacturing facilities are cropping up in the country, the problem of transporting the blades remains. While the wind turbine components can be broken down and .
Wind Turbine Blade Transport Options. Wind turbine components can be transported using various transport modes, including ship, rail, and truck. When it comes to building new wind farms and turbines, most of the assemblages that comprise the wind generator must be delivered on trucks at some stage during the transportation process.
Each truck needs to carry a wind turbine blade that is 75 meters long and weighs 19 tonnes along winding mountain roads, and makes hundreds of sharp turns before completing its two-week.
It is certainly not an easy task to transport the blade of wind turbine, which measures 70 meters long and weighs 20 tons, to the top of a mountain. But work.
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