Choose the Best Wind Turbine Rotor System
16 June 2009 | Wind Power | No Comments
Rotor is the most important part of a wind turbine. The rotor recives the kinetic energy from the wind stream and transforms it into mechanical shaft power. Components of a wind turbine rotor are blades, hub, shaft, bearings and other internals. Blades of the wind turbine have airfoil sections and through it is possible to design the rotor with a single blade, balancing of such rotors would be a real engineering challenge.Rotors with a single blade run faster and thus create undue vibration and noise. Further, such rotors are not visually acceptable. (more…)