A Metamaterial Absorber for Microwave De-icing of Wind Turbine blades and its Electromagnetic and Thermal properties

Zehai Zhang, Jing Wang, Junpu Ling, Yuzhang Yuan

2018

Abstract

The icing of wind turbine blades in cold climates may reduce the power generation efficiency, shorten the life of the blades and even bring safety hazard. De-icing of wind turbine blades is very necessary. The current technical means such as heating resistance, warm air, and other means of de-icing have various limitations, and no mass produced commercial wind turbine blade de-icing system are available currently. Microwave heating has the characteristics of selectivity, non-contact and rapid heating, and is a potential and flexible de-icing way of wind turbine blades. In this paper, a kind of metamaterial absorber (MA) which can strongly absorb 2.45GHz microwave is designed. It can absorb the incident microwave and then convert the microwave energy into heat. Multi-physical simulation is carried out to analyse the heat generation, thermal distribution and temperature rise of the MA under microwave radiating. This preliminary simulation results show that MA is possible to be used in microwave de-icing of wind turbine blades.

Paper Citation

in Harvard Style

Zhang Z., Wang J., Ling J. and Yuan Y. (2018). A Metamaterial Absorber for Microwave De-icing of Wind Turbine blades and its Electromagnetic and Thermal properties.In The Second International Conference on Materials Chemistry and Environmental Protection - MEEP, ISBN 978-989-758-360-5, pages 217-221. DOI: 10.5220/0008187802170221

in Bibtex Style

@conference{meep18,
author={Zehai Zhang and Jing Wang and Junpu Ling and Yuzhang Yuan},
title={A Metamaterial Absorber for Microwave De-icing of Wind Turbine blades and its Electromagnetic and Thermal properties},
booktitle={The Second International Conference on Materials Chemistry and Environmental Protection - MEEP,},
year={2018},
pages={217-221},
publisher={SciTePress},
organization={INSTICC},
doi={10.5220/0008187802170221},
isbn={978-989-758-360-5},
}

in EndNote Style

TY - CONF

JO - The Second International Conference on Materials Chemistry and Environmental Protection - MEEP,
TI - A Metamaterial Absorber for Microwave De-icing of Wind Turbine blades and its Electromagnetic and Thermal properties
SN - 978-989-758-360-5
AU - Zhang Z.
AU - Wang J.
AU - Ling J.
AU - Yuan Y.
PY - 2018
SP - 217
EP - 221
DO - 10.5220/0008187802170221