Wind Power Plants: Fundamentals, Design, Construction and Operation - Softcover

Softcover

ISBN 10: 1902916387 ISBN 13: 9781902916385

Publisher: Earthscan Publications Ltd., 2004

Synopsis

This book offers a comprehensive guide to the fundamentals, design, construction and operation of wind turbines.

Topics include:
* introduction to wind energy
* historical background
* wind turbines -- design and components
* the wind
* wind turbine dimensioning
* calculation of performance characteristics and partial loads behavior
* structural loads and strength issues
* scaling wind turbines and rules of similarity
* wind-pumping systems
* power generation
* control of wind turbines
* dynamic problems of wind turbines
* offshore wind farms

Wind Power Plants is essential reading for anyone working in or interested by wind energy, including planning engineers, consultants on renewable energy projects, manufacturers of turbines and components, researchers and students of wind energy. This book includes contributions from 14 experts in academia and industry.

About this title

About the Authors

Robert Gasch has been lecturing in wind power since 1984 at the Technical University of Berlin, Germany.

Jochen Twele has been lecturing in wind power since 1984 at the Technical University of Berlin, Germany.

Edition details

• Publisher: Earthscan Publications Ltd.
• Publication date: 2004
• Language: English
• ISBN 10: 1902916387
• ISBN 13: 9781902916385
• Binding: Paperback
• Number of pages: 416
• Editor: Gasch Robert, Twele Jochen