Wind Turbines: Fundamentals, Technologies, Application, Economics

✍ Scribed by Erich Hau

• Publisher: Springer-Verlag Berlin Heidelberg
• Year: 2013
• Tongue: English
• Leaves: 886
• Edition: 3
• 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

Front Matter....Pages 1-17
Windmills and Windwheels....Pages 1-21
Electrical Power from the Wind - The First Attempts....Pages 23-64
Basic Concepts of Wind Energy Converters....Pages 65-78
Physical Principles of Wind Energy Conversion....Pages 79-87
Rotor Aerodynamics....Pages 89-166
Loads and Structural Stresses....Pages 167-231
Vibration Characteristics....Pages 233-268
Rotor Blades....Pages 269-304
Mechanical Drive Train and Nacelle....Pages 305-383
Electrical System....Pages 385-428
Control Systems and Operational Sequence....Pages 429-465
The Tower....Pages 467-503
The Wind Resource....Pages 505-547
Power Output and Energy Yield....Pages 549-603
Environmental Impact....Pages 605-636
Commercial Applications of Wind Turbines....Pages 637-676
Offshore Wind Energy Utilisation....Pages 677-718
Wind Turbine Installation and Operation....Pages 719-787
Wind Turbine Costs....Pages 789-843
Wind Turbine Economics....Pages 845-870
Back Matter....Pages 871-879

✦ Subjects

Renewable and Green Energy; Engineering, general; Renewable and Green Energy