AMTip – Advanced Tips enabled by Manufacturing and Jointed Blades

This project targets ambitious goals: We aim to demonstrate that a radically new blade technology combining jointed modular blades with advanced tips made with additive manufacturing can enable increased rotor sizes by up to 20% and lead to 5-15% increase in AEP compared to conventional blades. With a targeted 4% decrease in LCOE the new technology has the potential to disrupt the market and position LM with a competitive edge and increased market share. The project will strengthen Denmark’s enormous potential for green economic growth and will result in a yearly reduction in global CO2 emissions of 1.6-5 mill. tons. Nextgeneration wind turbine blades will be designed that fully utilize the potential in the jointed blade technology and advanced additive manufacturing using state-of-the-art research-based design methods. Importantly, the project will experimentally validate and demonstrate these new design solutions with laboratory and fullscale field tests and thus shorten their time to market significantly