Local Butte Company Helping to Reduce the Cost of Wind Energy for Consumers
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Peter Lucon, Senior Mechanical Engineer for Resodyn Corporation, has won a $1 million contract from the United States Department of Energy to develop a method to detect flaws in composite materials. The project, entitled Advanced Vibrothermography for Wind Turbine Applications, will be used to develop a new product offering in Resodyn Corporation's Advanced Instrumentation business line. This award is a competitive process and Resodyn Corporation was the only Montana company receiving an award in this round of funding. According to the Department of Energy, "Bringing these innovative technologies to market will help spur economic growth and reduce the country's energy use."One of the central issues in converting our nation's energy usage to renewable sources remains cost competitiveness. Accordingly, the Department of Energy continues to research issues associated with operation and maintenance of these immense wind turbine systems. The ultimate goal of this project is to provide a reliable and portable instrumentation deployment system that can be utilized throughout the lifetime of wind turbine systems. The technology developed by this work will be designed to detect and characterize any manufacturing flaws as well as damage that occurs to turbine blades and supporting structures throughout their service life.
Mr. Lucon is a senior member of Resodyn Corporation's Instrumentation and ResonantAcoustic® product teams, and as the lead modeling engineer in the ResonantAcoustics Mixing® (RAM) group he has authored numerous papers and has several patents pending in the field of Acoustics.
Originally founded in 1994, Resodyn Corporation is an innovative technology development and manufacturing firm located in Butte, Montana that concentrates on the invention, advancement, and commercialization of technologies and products in their core areas of Resonant Acoustics, Polymer Materials Development, Advanced Instrumentation, and Biotechnology.