Since the world’s best wind regions are often located on mountains and/or cold climate areas, more and more wind turbines have to be placed where rotor blade icing is an issue. The most important points for customers are reliability and profitability, which can only be reached when the turbines downtime is reduced to a minimum.

Our business is to „fight the ice“ and to keep the turbine producing energy even in and after severe weather conditions in cold climates. The Villinger “LDI” Ice Protection System may be integrated during the manufacturing process of new blades. The system offers the most robust and energy efficient wind turbine ice protection system available today.

Compared to conventional PV heating systems, Solar DeIce offers homogeneous heat generation without hotspots, which can damage photovoltaic cells.

SOLAR-DEICE is easy to assemble by sticking it to the back of the panels. SOLAR-DEICE is suitable for both the private and commercial sector.

Villinger pipe heating systems are used for different kinds of pipes. The heater layer is applied directly onto the outer pipe surface, providing effective heating-, and de-icing capabilities. Due to their low weight and simple build-up, these systems are mainly used for drainage and wastewater systems in the Aviation industry.

The Villinger heating technology is characterized by great versatility and easy application, which allows us to put heat directly exactly where it is needed. Depending on application needs and/or customer requirements, the heater layer can be applied onto almost any desired base material either directly, or as a foil heater. Where conventional heating technologies fail is where we step in to solve the problem.

Villinger R&D systems are safe by design:
The heater layer provides an even and homogeneous heat-up process and self-regulating capabilities, preventing heater failure due to “hot spots” that can quickly develop with conventional heaters. This behaviour is attributed to the material’s light positive temperature coefficient (PTC). Materials with a PTC experience an increase in electrical resistance when their temperature is raised. Therefore the heat is regulated properly and the formation of hot spots, or an uncontrolled heat build-up are prevented. As a result, our heater layer can be designed to reach a maximum temperature for a given input voltage, since at some point any further increase in temperature would only be met with greater electrical resistance.

Another advantage is the coating’s smooth exhibition of distributed heating over the entire energized zone. Due to these self-limiting capabilities, on many occasions there is no need for thermal sensing of the heater, further reducing system complexity and still featuring full system safety.