Wind energy : renewable energy and the environment

✍ Scribed by Nelson, Vaughn; Starcher, Kenneth

• Publisher: CRC Press
• Year: 2019
• Tongue: English
• Leaves: 327
• Series: Energy and the environment (Boca Raton Fla.)
• Edition: Third edition
• Category: Library

✦ Synopsis

This book explores the wind industry from its inception in the 1970s to today; presents the design, aerodynamics, operation, control, applications, and different types of wind turbines; and provides ample reasons to shift from fossil fuels to renewable energy. It also discusses the political and economic factors regarding the adoption of wind as an energy source. It covers the characteristics of wind, such as shear, power potential, and turbulence, and discusses the measurement and siting of individual wind turbines and wind farms. This new edition is fully updated throughout, and adds new material on wind forecasting, offshore wind, decommissioning and repowering wind farms, and more.  Read more...

Abstract: This book explores the wind industry from its inception in the 1970s to today; presents the design, aerodynamics, operation, control, applications, and different types of wind turbines; and provides ample reasons to shift from fossil fuels to renewable energy. It also discusses the political and economic factors regarding the adoption of wind as an energy source. It covers the characteristics of wind, such as shear, power potential, and turbulence, and discusses the measurement and siting of individual wind turbines and wind farms. This new edition is fully updated throughout, and adds new material on wind forecasting, offshore wind, decommissioning and repowering wind farms, and more

✦ Table of Contents

Content: Chapter 1: Introduction --
Chapter 2: Energy --
Chapter 3: Wind characteristics --
Chapter 4: Wind resource assessment --
Chapter 5: Wind turbines --
Chapter 6: Design of wind turbines --
Chapter 7: Electrical issues --
Chapter 8: Performance --
Chapter 9 Siting --
Chapter 10: Applications and wind industry --
Chapter 11: Institutional issues --
Chapter 12: Economics.

✦ Subjects

Wind power.;Wind power plants.;TECHNOLOGY & ENGINEERING / Mechanical.;SCIENCE / Energy