Vortex ICING will be of invaluable help when designing wind farms in cold climates. Do not leave it until it is too late to experience production losses due to ice accretion on blades, Vortex ICING provides a fairly reasonable estimate of the combined probability of frost and wind between critical thresholds.
Extreme temperatures and ice
-Any region worldwide, both on and off-shore
-Meso (3km) and Microscale (100m) resolutions
-Up to 25,000km2 extension (Mesoscale)
-Fully selectable areas in size, location and orientation (Microscale)
-Any height between 50 and 150m (Microscale). All them available during post-processing
-Maps of minimum temperature and maximum density
-6 decreasing temperature thresholds
-Maps of days per year with temperatures below thresholds
-Maps of hours per year with icing rate above critical threshold (Microscale)
-Table cross referencing wind speed and direction during icing periods at an unlimited number of points within the selected area (Microscale)
-Based on 10-year simulations
-Maps exportable to Google Earth KML, ESRI grid and WAsP WRG (Microscale) formats
Meso & Microscale, long-term
Vortex ICING temperature maps help you identify cold climate areas at a Mesoscale level. Later, Microscale simulations estimate ice accretion taking into account detailed variations of wind and humidity at 100m-resolution. Results include wind speed distributions (detached by bin & sector) during icing periods to directly estimate potential production losses. Vortex ICING has been verified by leading industry players and, like other Vortex products, is open for you to test on your own sites, with your own data.
