Verdant Power, now at the forefront of advancing the global tidal energy industry, engaged Glassboard in their early stages to design, verify, and validate their turbine blade, hub, and nacelle components.
Client
Verdant Power
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Services
•Mechanical Design
•FEA - Stress Analysis
•Design For Manufacturing
•Design Verification & Lab Testing
•Vendor Qualification
•Production Support
Challenge
Our team was tasked with designing an efficient and robust mechanical system and identifying and executing cost-effective methods of verifying the large-scale design before entering prototyping and manufacturing and field units.
Solution
Glassboard mechanical engineers and analysts generated robust turbine design systems and utilized non-linear finite element analysis (FEA) to verify the design in a cost-effective manner that ultimately provided extremely accurate results when compared with later empirical verification testing on field units.
Result
After a successful early product rollout, Verdant Power became the first company to receive a commercial license for Tidal Power in the United States, and the technology became the first to receive a Power Performance Certification from the International Electrotechnical Commission (IEC).
