Advanced Wind Turbine Technology

✍ Scribed by Weifei Hu

• Publisher: Springer International Publishing
• Year: 2018
• Tongue: English
• Leaves: 351
• Edition: 1st ed.
• Category: Library

✦ Synopsis

This book introduces the current challenges in modern wind turbine analysis, design and development, and provides a comprehensive examination of state-of-the-art technologies from both academia and industry. The twelve information-rich chapters cover a wide range of topics including reliability-based design, computational fluid dynamics, gearbox and bearing analyses, lightning analysis, structural dynamics, health condition monitoring, advanced techniques for field repair, offshore floating wind turbines, advanced turbine control and grid integration, and other emerging technologies. Each chapter begins with the current status of technology in a lucid, is easy-to-follow treatment, then elaborates on the corresponding advanced technology using detailed methodologies, graphs, mathematical models, computational simulations, and experimental instrumentation. Relevant to a broad audience from students and faculty to researchers, manufacturers, and wind energy engineers and designers, the book is ideal for both educational and research needs.

• Presents the latest developments in reliability-based design optimization, CFD of wind turbines, structural dynamics for wind turbine blades, off-shore floating wind turbines, advanced wind turbine control, and wind power and ramp forecasting for grid integration;
  
• Includes techniques for wind turbine gearboxes and bearings, evaluation of lightning strike damage, health condition monitoring and reparation techniques;
  
• Illustrates theories and operational considerations using graphics, tables, computational algorithms, simulation models, and experimental instrumentation;
  
• Examines unique, innovative technologies for wind energy.
  

✦ Table of Contents

Front Matter ....Pages i-x
Reliability-Based Design Optimization of Wind Turbine Systems (Weifei Hu)....Pages 1-45
Computational Fluid Dynamics Methods for Wind Turbines Performance Analysis (Navid Goudarzi)....Pages 47-57
Gearbox of Wind Turbine (Huaxia Li)....Pages 59-118
A New Multiscale Modeling and Simulation of Rolling Contact Fatigue for Wind Turbine Bearings (Mir Ali Ghaffari, Shaoping Xiao)....Pages 119-142
Lightning Analysis of Wind Turbines (Yeqing Wang)....Pages 143-173
Advanced Wind Turbine Dynamics (Qi Wang)....Pages 175-192
Advanced Health Condition Monitoring of Wind Turbines (Wenxian Yang, Kexiang Wei, Zhike Peng, Weifei Hu)....Pages 193-218
Advanced Repairing of Composite Wind Turbine Blades and Advanced Manufacturing of Metal Gearbox Components (Ninggang Shen, Hongtao Ding)....Pages 219-245
Modeling and Analysis of Offshore Floating Wind Turbines (Zhiyu Jiang, Xiangqian Zhu, Weifei Hu)....Pages 247-280
Advanced Wind Turbine Control (Na Wang)....Pages 281-297
Wind Power and Ramp Forecasting for Grid Integration (Cong Feng, Jie Zhang)....Pages 299-315
Emerging Technologies for Next-Generation Wind Turbines (Weifei Hu)....Pages 317-339
Back Matter ....Pages 341-349

✦ Subjects

Energy; Renewable and Green Energy; Energy Systems; Offshore Engineering; Physics of Energy Technology