Prof. Dr. Uwe Ritschel (left) founded Windrad Engineering. Has has now handed over management of the company to Dr. Frank Adam (right) and Ralf Trapphoff.
October 2021
The GICON® Group expands its service portfolio in the field of onshore and offshore wind and welcomes Windrad Engineering GmbH as a new member in the group of companies. […]
October 2020
Windrad Engineering virtually participated in the RENEW 2020 conference in Portugal to present a concept of a scalable hybrid micro grid for offshore oil and gas platforms using floating wind turbines.
Offshore Oil and Gas platforms mostly utilize gas or diesel generators to produce reliable energy. As a step towards low carbon economy, […]
October 2020
A “digital twin” is a computer-generated replica of a real, existing physical entity such as a wind turbine.
The englisch translation of the title of the R&D project is “Concept and design of a cyber-physical system for the holistic development of wind turbines” (WindIO). The project covers a period of three years having […]
January 2020
Our in-house software SIWEC has been ugraded to simulate floating wind turbines including wave interactions. This upgrade has already been sucessfully utilized in a current project.
A tension leg platform is currently implemented. This is modeled as a rigid body with six degrees of freedom so that there is no loss of simulation speed. […]
December 2019
Simulation tool SiWEC upgraded to vertical axis wind turbines. Our in-house software SiWEC has been upgraded to establish an efficient simulation of vertical axis wind turbines (VAWT).
A key challange for a VAWT load calculation is the underlying aero-elastic model. SiWEC currently includes a model with double induction for front and rear passage of […]
October 2019
On October 28, the Kick-Off meeting took place at the University of Oldenburg / ForWind. In this Joint R&D Project ConUp supported by the Federal Ministry for Economic Affairs and Energy a protective method that is independent of a specific manufacturer will be developed to allow for safe re-parametrization and retrofitting of wind […]
July 2019
Under guidance of the chair of wind energy technology a wind tunnel test to investigate aerodynamic response of the novel blade design invented by Windrad Engineering designers has successfully been completed in the wind tunnel of the University of Rostock. Part of the work was carried out as an internship by the […]
September 2018
Windrad Engineering GmbH and the Chair of Wind Energy Technology of the University of Rostock join to present their products and projects at the auf der Weltleitmesse für world’s leading wind industry gathering in Hamburg. (l2r: Dr. Michael Hänler, Dr. Michael Beyer, Prof. Dr. Uwe Ritschel)
May 2018
The distinction “Innovative through research 2018/2019” of the German Stifterverband für die deutsche Wissenschaft (Association for the Promotion of Science and Humanities in Germany) has been again (after 2014/2015 and 2016/2017) awarded to Windrad Engineering GmbH. The award recognizes outstanding R&D activities. Besides normal business activities Windrad Engineering conducts smaller and larger research […]
December 2014
New R&D project on power electronics approved by BMWi
„Manufacturer independent retro fitting and evaluation of life time consumption for power electronics of wind energy converters with doubly fed induction generators” (WEA-Retrofit) is the approximate translation of a project’s title that will be conducted by Windrad Engineering together with ForWind – Center for Wind […]
