Abstract: A method for manufacturing a preform building element used for building a wind turbine rotor blade, that is manufactured from one or more fiber mat components and at least one further component arranged on a molding surface of a mold, wherein one or more fiber mat components are arranged one after the other on the further component and/or on previously arranged fiber mat components, wherein the fiber mat component is laid out at least sectionally on the respective directly subjacent component with a moving boundary of a contact area, at which the laid out fiber mat comes into contact with the subjacent component, during laying out of the or each fiber mat component, a binding agent is applied at least sectionally to the boundary and/or a binding agent supplied in the laid-out fiber mat component and/or in the subjacent component is activated at least sectionally at and/or behind the boundary.

Abstract: A porous material provided with a reactive component capable of reacting with an infusion resin is provided. In addition, a method of producing a wind turbine blade or a part thereof is described, the method including providing a mold containing the porous material, applying an infusion resin into the mold by a vacuum infusion method, in particular vacuum assisted resin transfer molding, and curing the infusion resin. A wind turbine blade or a part thereof obtainable by this method is also provided.

Abstract: A method for manufacturing a preform part for a wind turbine blade, includes the steps: providing at least one rigid core element, at least one reinforcement structure consisting of a fiber-based material and at least one adhesive sheet of a meltable adhesive, arranging the adhesive sheet in between the core element and the reinforcement structure, and bonding the core element to the reinforcement structure by heating and subsequent cooling of the adhesive sheet for creating an adhesive layer between the core element and the reinforcement structure, wherein the adhesive layer consists of the adhesive and is partially pervious for a liquid.

Abstract: Provided is a method of manufacturing a rotor blade of a wind turbine, the method including: placing fiber material on a shape forming surface; arranging phase change material being in a first state at at least one predetermined first region and/or arranging phase change material being in a second state at at least one predetermined second region; soaking the fiber material with resin to be in thermal contact with the phase change material at the first region and/or second region; during a crosslinking reaction for crosslinking the resin: absorbing heat generated within the resin by the phase change material at the first region; and/or releasing heat from the phase change material toward the resin at the second region.

Abstract: A flexible balsa wood panel for a rotor blade of a wind turbine, including a plurality of balsa wood modules and a polymer film which is attached to a surface of each balsa wood module to connect the balsa wood modules together is provided. The flexible balsa wood panel has the following advantages. An adhesion area of the polymer film is significantly larger than that of a glass fiber mesh. This in turn reduces the risk of balsa wood modules falling off during handling the flexible balsa wood panel. A polymer film with a high melting temperature relative to a maximum blade curing temperature can be selected in order to avoid curing process induced delaminations. Furthermore, due to the polymer film attached to the first surface, a more uniform adhesion may be achieved compared to a currently used glass fiber mesh.

Abstract: A method for on-site repairing of a surface of a component in a wind turbine is provided. In the method, a digital model of the surface is generated using a scanning device. The digital model represents the surface in damaged state. Thereafter, using a processor, a repair scheme for the surface based on the digital model and on a desired state of the surface is generated. The desired state represents a post-repair state of the surface. Consequently, the repair scheme is provided to a 3D printing arrangement. Finally, in the method, one or more selected materials are printed, using the 3D printing arrangement, on the surface to be repaired, wherein the printing is performed according the repair scheme and results in repair of the damaged surface.

Abstract: Provided is a method of manufacturing a rotor blade of a wind turbine, the method including: placing fiber material on a shape forming surface; arranging phase change material being in a first state at at least one predetermined first region and/or arranging phase change material being in a second state at at least one predetermined second region; soaking the fiber material) with resin to be in thermal contact with the phase change material at the first region and/or second region; during a crosslinking reaction for crosslinking the resin: absorbing heat generated within the resin by the phase change material at the first region); and/or releasing heat from the phase change material toward the resin at the second region(.

Abstract: Resin-rich mica tapes comprising one or more than one layer of mica paper and one or more than one layer of a nonmetallic inorganic fabric, in particular a glass fabric, which are pre-impregnated with an impregnation resin composition comprising an epoxy resin with more than one epoxy group, which is solid or semisolid at ambient temperature, a latent curing agent for said epoxy resin, about 5 to about 20% by weight of hexagonal boron nitride of a particle size (D50) of equal or less than about 3 ?m, about 0.05 to about 1% by weight of a wetting agent and a suitable solvent which is removed after pre-impregnation of the mica tape with the impregnation resin mixture are useful to prepare electrical insulations with excellent thermal conductivity and dielectric dissipation factor.

Abstract: Disclosed is an anhydride-free insulation system for insulating an electrical conductor or a coil of conductors, comprising: (a) a liquid epoxy resin formulation comprising at least 80% by weight, based on the liquid epoxy resin bath formulation, of bisphenol A diglycidyl ether, (b) a mica tape comprising a mica paper adhered by means of a binder to a support (c) an imidazole compound of the formula (I) wherein R1, R2 and R3 are individually selected from hydrogen, branched or unbranched C1-C4-alkyl, phenyl and benzyl, provided that at least one of R1 and R2 is hydrogen.

Abstract: A method for on-site repairing of a surface of a component in a wind turbine is provided. In the method, a digital model of the surface is generated using a scanning device. The digital model represents the surface in damaged state. Thereafter, using a processor, a repair scheme for the surface based on the digital model and on a desired state of the surface is generated. The desired state represents a post-repair state of the surface. Consequently, the repair scheme is provided to a 3D printing arrangement. Finally, in the method, one or more selected materials are printed, using the 3D printing arrangement, on the surface to be repaired, wherein the printing is performed according the repair scheme and results in repair of the damaged surface.

Abstract: Disclosed is an anhydride-free insulation system for current-carrying construction parts of an electric engine which comprises: (A) a mica paper or mica tape for wrapping parts of said electric engine that are potentially current-carrying during operation of the engine, which mica paper or mica tape is impregnable via vacuum pressure impregnation with a thermally curable epoxy resin formulation and comprises a complex of boron trihalogenide with an amine of the formula BX3·NR1R2R3 or R1R2N—A—NR1R2, wherein X denotes halogen, R1, R2 and R3 are each independently of the others hydrogen, C1-C12alkyl, C5-C30aryl, C6-C36aralkyl or C6-C14cycloalkyl, which can be unsubstituted or substituted by one or more C1-C12alkyl groups, A is a bivalent aliphatic aromatic or cycloaliphatic radical; (B) a thermally curable bath formulation for the vacuum pressure impregnation comprising bisphenol A diglycidyl ether and optionally bisphenol F diglycidyl ether, which formulation is substantially or, preferably, entirel

Abstract: A flexible balsa wood panel for a rotor blade of a wind turbine, including a plurality of balsa wood modules and a polymer film which is attached to a surface of each balsa wood module to connect the balsa wood modules together is provided. The flexible balsa wood panel has the following advantages. An adhesion area of the polymer film is significantly larger than that of a glass fiber mesh. This in turn reduces the risk of balsa wood modules falling off during handling the flexible balsa wood panel. A polymer film with a high melting temperature relative to a maximum blade curing temperature can be selected in order to avoid curing process induced delaminations. Furthermore, due to the polymer film attached to the first surface, a more uniform adhesion may be achieved compared to a currently used glass fiber mesh.

Abstract: Disclosed is an anhydride-free insulation system for current-carrying construction parts of an electric engine which comprises: (A) a mica paper or mica tape for wrapping parts of said electric engine that are potentially current-carrying during operation of the engine, which mica paper or mica tape is impregnable via vacuum pressure impregnation with a thermally curable epoxy resin formulation and comprises one or more thermally activatable sulfonium salt initiators for the homopolymerisation of the epoxy resins present in said said thermally curable epoxy resin formulation or a mixture thereof in an amount sufficient to homopolymerize the epoxy resin taken up by the mica paper or mica tape and the construction part of the engine during the vacuum pressure impregnation step; (B) a thermally curable bath formulation for the vacuum pressure impregnation comprising (i) a polyglycidyl ether or a mixture thereof, and (ii) a cycloaliphatic epoxy resin comprising at least two epoxy groups, which are fused to a cy

Abstract: Disclosed is an anhydride-free insulation system for current-carrying construction parts of an electric engine which comprises: (A) a mica paper or mica tape for wrapping parts of said electric engine that are potentially current-carrying during operation of the engine, which mica paper or mica tape is impregnable via vacuum pressure impregnation with a thermally curable epoxy resin formulation and comprises a thermally activatable curing initiator for the epoxy resin formulation consisting of one or more quarternary ammonium salts of an aromatic-heterocyclic compound, which contains 1 or 2 nitrogen atoms, and a complex anion selected from the group consisting of BF4?, PF6?, SbF6?, SbF5(OH)?, AsF6? and Al[OC(CF3)3]4? in an amount sufficient to cure the epoxy resin taken up by the mica paper or mica tape and the construction part of the engine during the vacuum pressure impregnation step; (B) a thermally curable bath formulation for the vacuum pressure impregnation comprising one or more epoxy resins, which fo