New Advancements in Monopile Production for Offshore Wind Farms
Wind turbines on the open sea are enormous. Apr 30th, 2021 Friederike Meyer zu Tittingdorf Materials researchers at Saarland University and mechanical engineers at RWTH Aachen University working to further develop monopile production for offshore wind farms. Steelwind Nordenham With an output of around ten megawatts, today's wind turbines on the open sea have enormous dimensions. Their gigantic nacelles - with a generator, rotor and rotor blades spanning more than 100 meters - stand atop a steel tower. This tower, in turn, rests in the sea on colossal steel pipes known as monopiles, currently...