Wind Turbines: Fundamentals, Technologies, Application, Economics

✍ Scribed by Erich Hau, Horst von Renouard (auth.)

• Publisher: Springer Berlin Heidelberg
• Year: 2006
• Tongue: English
• Leaves: 791
• Edition: 2nd ed.
• Category: Library

✦ Synopsis

Wind Turbines addresses all those professionally involved in research, development, manufacture and operation of wind turbines. It provides a cross-disciplinary overview of modern wind turbine technology and an orientation in the associated technical, economic and environmental fields. It is based on the author's experience gained over decades designing wind energy converters with a major industrial manufacturer and, more recently, in technical consulting and in the planning of large wind park installations, with special attention to economics. The second edition accounts for the emerging concerns over increasing numbers of installed wind turbines. In particular, an important new chapter has been added which deals with offshore wind utilisation. All advanced chapters have been extensively revised and in some cases considerably extended

✦ Table of Contents

Windmills and Windwheels....Pages 1-21
Electrical Power from the Wind — The First Attempts....Pages 23-65
Basic Concepts of Wind Energy Converters....Pages 67-80
Physical Principles of Wind Energy Conversion....Pages 81-89
Rotor Aerodynamics....Pages 91-160
Loads and Structural Stresses....Pages 161-217
Rotor Blades....Pages 219-252
Mechanical Drive Train and Nacelle....Pages 253-318
Electrical System....Pages 319-356
Control Systems and Operation Sequence Control....Pages 357-387
Vibration Problems....Pages 389-420
The Tower....Pages 421-449
The Wind Resource....Pages 451-483
Power Output and Energy Yield....Pages 485-532
Environmental Impact....Pages 533-562
Commercial Applications of Wind Turbines....Pages 563-614
Offshore Wind Energy Utilisation....Pages 615-652
Wind Turbine Installation and Operation....Pages 653-701
Wind Turbine Costs....Pages 703-750
Wind Turbine Economics....Pages 751-774

✦ Subjects

Renewable Energy Sources; Physics and Applied Physics in Engineering