Wind Power Plants Fundamentals, Design, Construction and Operation /

• Corporate Author: SpringerLink (Online service)
• Other Authors: Gasch, Robert (Editor), Twele, Jochen (Editor)
• Format: Electronic eBook
• Language: English
• Published: Berlin, Heidelberg : Springer Berlin Heidelberg, 2012.
• Subjects: Engineering.; Renewable energy resources.; Fluid mechanics.; Mechanical engineering.; Building construction.; Renewable energy sources.; Alternate energy sources.; Green energy industries.; Renewable and Green Energy.; Offshore Engineering.; Mechanical Engineering.; Engineering Fluid Dynamics.

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...

Table of Contents:

• Questionnaire
• Introduction
• Historical development of windmills
• Design and components
• The wind blade geometry
• Calculation of performance characteristics
• Scaling wind turbines and rules of similarity
• Structural dynamics
• Guidelines and analysis procedures
• Wind pump systems
• Electricity generation
• Supervisory and control systems
• Concepts of electricity generation
• Operation at the interconnected grid
• Planning, operation and economics
• Offshore windfarms.