Jamie Sloan, 4th year Mechanical Engineering student

jamie.sloan.2013@uni.strath.ac.uk

Project title: Mapping of liquid impacts on materials under laboratory simulated wind turbine conditions

There has been a vast expansion into research relating to wind turbine blades leading edge erosion to improve the life in field and the aerodynamic efficiencies of the industrial sized wind turbines, in an attempt to enhance renewable energies meeting regulations to reduce fossil fuel driven energy resources for a greener future. The purpose of this project to investigate the effects of varying wind turbine blade velocities and rain droplet diameters has on the surface of mild steel specimens. Furthermore, altering the rig to sustain greater linear wind velocities allows further research into composite materials. The results are used to study the mass loss due to erosion of the test materials and the surfaces of the test specimens examined using SEM and EDS to observe corrosion effects.

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