Ge Vernova Infrastructure Technology LLC

General Electric Renovables Espana, S.l.

Wilhelm Ramon Hernandez

Charles Erklin Seeley

Darren John Danielsen

Gregory Edward Cooper

A system and method are provided for reducing vibrations and loads in one or more rotor blades on a rotor hub of a wind turbine when the rotor hub is in a locked or idling condition. A mass damper is attached at a fixed location on one or more of the rotor blades and is maintained on the rotor blades during the locked or idling condition of the rotor hub. The mass damper includes a movable mass component that is responsive to changes in the vibrations or oscillations induced in the rotor blades during the locked or idling condition of the rotor hub.

System and method for use of a tunable mechanical mass damper to reduce vibrations in wind turbine blades in a locked or idling condition of the rotor hub

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Greenville, SC, United States of America

Wilhelm Ramon Hernandez