Small Wind Turbines: Analysis, Design, and Application

✍ Scribed by David Wood (auth.)

• Publisher: Springer-Verlag London
• Year: 2011
• Tongue: English
• Leaves: 291
• Series: Green Energy and Technology
• Edition: 1
• Category: Library

✦ Synopsis

Small Wind Turbines provides a thorough grounding in analysing, designing, building, and installing a small wind turbine. Small turbines are introduced by emphasising their differences from large ones and nearly all the analysis and design examples refer to small turbines.

The accompanying software includes MATLAB® programs for power production and starting performance, as well as programs for detailed multi-objective optimisation of blade design. A spreadsheet is also given to help readers apply the simple load model of the IEC standard for small wind turbine safety. Small Wind Turbines represents the distilled outcome of over twenty years experience in fundamental research, design and installation, and field testing of small wind turbines.

Small Wind Turbines is a suitable reference for student projects and detailed design studies, and also provides important background material for engineers and others using small wind turbines for remote power and distributed generation applications.

✦ Table of Contents

Front Matter....Pages i-xix
Introduction to Wind Turbine Technology....Pages 1-29
Control Volume Analysis for Wind Turbines....Pages 31-40
Blade Element Theory for Wind Turbines....Pages 41-55
Aerofoils: Lift, Drag, and Circulation....Pages 57-75
Blade Element Calculations....Pages 77-99
Starting and Low Wind Speed Performance....Pages 101-117
Blade Design, Manufacture, and Testing....Pages 119-143
The Unsteady Aerodynamics of Turbine Yaw and Over-Speed Protection....Pages 145-167
Using the IEC Simple Load Model for Small Wind Turbines....Pages 169-198
Tower Design and Manufacture....Pages 199-225
Generator and Electrical System....Pages 227-250
Site Assessment and Installation....Pages 251-264
Back Matter....Pages 265-270

✦ Subjects

Renewable and Green Energy; Power Electronics, Electrical Machines and Networks; Machinery and Machine Elements; Engineering Fluid Dynamics