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Managing Costs and Review for Icing Problems

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The weather conditions have a key role in energy production of wind farms. Ice can appear in regions with cold conditions or during winter season. Ice on blades reduces the efficiency of the turbines, increases failures and downtime and causes imbalance of the rotor. This results in power losses which can be translating in operational costs that can reach millions of euros. Therefore, it is necessary to research and develop new methods for detection, prevention and removal of ice from blades. This chapter presents the current state of the art on ice detection and mitigation. Various techniques of detection, anti-icing and de-icing tare considered. Finally, an economic analysis of a selection of commercial ice detection systems is carried out.

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The work reported herewith has been financially supported by the Spanish Ministerio de Economía y Competitividad, under Research Grants DPI2015-67264-P and RTC-2016-5694-3.

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  1. CUNEF-Ingenium, Colegio Universitario de Estudios Financieros, Madrid, Spain

    Jesús María Pinar-Pérez

  2. Ingenium Research Group, Universidad Castilla-la Mancha, Ciudad Real, Spain

    Fausto Pedro García Márquez

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    Fausto Pedro García Márquez

  2. Renewable Energy, Terna Energy, Athens, Attiki, Greece

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  3. Metallurgy and Materials, University of Birmingham, Birmingham, United Kingdom

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Pinar-Pérez, J.M., García Márquez, F.P. (2018). Managing Costs and Review for Icing Problems. In: García Márquez, F., Karyotakis, A., Papaelias, M. (eds) Renewable Energies. Springer, Cham. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-319-45364-4_7

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