(2672)COMPOSITE MATERIAL FOR RENEWABLE ENERGY APPLICATIONS SUCCESSFUL IN PREVENTING FAILURE

摘要

Renewable energy applications are typically located in environments that present a host of challenges to designers. Electrical components face daily exposure to a wide range of weather conditions including intense sun, wind, rain, and cold. Typical designs can fall drastically short to properly protect controls under the continuous bombardment of inclement weather because of material failure.This presentation will provide renewable material specifiers with the information needed to understand materials for renewable control applications and why some will fail in this harsh environment while others will succeed.The discussion starts off with a brief background on typical conditions that contribute to failure in the renewables environment, emphasizing the need to take material choice selection seriously. Next, the presentation will provide a lesson how one composite (fiberglass) formulation was developed and tested so it could successfully provide proper protection for components located this harsh environment. The presentation then turns to explaining why, after reviewing the many available options, an increasing number of companies requiring protection for renewables are choosing non-metallic materials.