The process is totally non-invasive to turbine operations. Anakata will come to your wind farm and scan your turbines in operation and then report on the aerodynamic effectiveness of your turbine blades and produce recommendations for optimisation of power output.

Using this tool, we can also account for the specific blade condition when considering the optimisation of any upgrade.

IR enables us to forensically analyse airflow by looking directly at its temperature signature on the blade. The resulting images and data collected are carefully interrupted to enable identification and quantification of:

• Blade condition (quantitative impact of torque/power loss due to soiling and or erosion)
• Blade functionality verification (aerodynamic operational envelope check, pitch angle misalignment, other aerodynamic imbalance between blades on a specific turbine)
• Blade leading edge protection functionality appraisal (LEP strategy and product type effectiveness verification)
• Blade furniture functionality verification
• Blade noises sources
• Blade manufacturing geometry defect impacts.