Wind Power Plants: Fundamentals, Design, Construction and Operation

✍ Scribed by Prof. Dr.-Ing. Robert Gasch, Prof. Dr.-Ing. Jochen Twele (auth.), Robert Gasch, Jochen Twele (eds.)

• Publisher: Springer-Verlag Berlin Heidelberg
• Year: 2012
• Tongue: English
• Leaves: 566
• Edition: 2
• Category: Library

✦ Synopsis

Wind power plants teaches the physical foundations of usage of Wind Power. It includes the areas like Construction of Wind Power Plants, Design, Development of Production Series, Control, and discusses the dynamic forces acting on the systems as well as the power conversion and its connection to the distribution system.

The book is written for graduate students, practitioners and inquisitive readers of any kind. It is based on lectures held at several universities. Its German version it already is the standard text book for courses on Wind Energy Engineering but serves also as reference for practising engineers.

✦ Table of Contents

Front Matter....Pages i-xviii
Introduction to Wind Energy....Pages 1-14
Historical development of windmills....Pages 15-45
Wind turbines - design and components....Pages 46-113
The wind....Pages 114-167
Blade geometry according to Betz and Schmitz....Pages 168-207
Calculation of performance characteristics and partial load behaviour....Pages 208-256
Scaling wind turbines and rules of similarity....Pages 257-271
Structural dynamics....Pages 272-306
Guidelines and analysis procedures....Pages 307-329
Wind pump systems....Pages 330-362
Wind turbines for electricity generation - basics....Pages 363-399
Supervisory and control systems for wind turbines....Pages 400-427
Concepts of electricity generation by wind turbines....Pages 428-460
Wind turbine operation at the interconnected grid....Pages 461-479
Planning, operation and economics of wind farm projects....Pages 480-519
Offshore wind farms....Pages 520-539
Back Matter....Pages 540-548

✦ Subjects

Renewable and Green Energy; Offshore Engineering; Mechanical Engineering; Engineering Fluid Dynamics