Wind Energy: Renewable Energy and the Environment: Renewable Energy and the Environment

ISBN-13: 9781138615342 / Angielski / Twarda / 2018 / 326 str.

Vaughn Nelson; Kenneth Starcher

Opis

This new edition explores the wind industry from its inception; presents the design, aerodynamics, operation, control, applications, and different types of wind turbines. This new edition is fully updated throughout, and adds new material on wind forecasting, offshore wind, decommissioning and repowering wind farms, and more.

Spis treści

Introduction. Energy. Wind Characteristics. Wind Resource Assessment. Wind Turbines. Design of Wind Turbines. Electrical Issues. Performance. Siting. Applications and Wind Industry. Institutional Issues. Economics. Index.