Wind Turbines

This book is intended for academics and engineers working in universities, research institutes, and industry sectors wishing to acquire new information and enhance their knowledge of the current trends in wind turbine technology. Readers will gain new ideas and special experience with in-depth information about modeling, stability control, assessment, reliability, and future prospects of wind turbines.

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

Learn all aspects of Wind turbines and Wind power plants working, operation and maintenance with powerful animations.

This book provides a comprehensive overview of wind turbines and their applications to engineering. It includes a discussion of mathematical models and an analysis of wind turbine dynamics.

The book introduces the fundamentals of fluid-mechanics, momentum theories, vortex theories and vortex methods necessary for the study of rotors aerodynamics and wind-turbines aerodynamics in particular. Rotor theories are presented in a great level of details at the beginning of the book.

Wind energy occupies a leading place among renewable energy sources for electric power system generation. The cumulative installations of wind turbines are continuously growing, and last year the cumulative capacity increased by nearly 11%, to around 539 GW [Wind Energy Systems. Proceedings of the IEEE, 2017], and it is expected to transcend 760 GW by 2020 [Renewables 2018 Global Status Report—REN21]. Today, the global installed renewable generation capacity has passed 2000 GW, where hydro-power counts for around 1000 GW. Moreover, in 2017, the offshore wind power sector had its best year yet and its total capacity increased by 30%. This constant increase in the rapid pace of wind power is due to significant technological achievements in recent years, and it has made it possible to lower the cost of energy dramatically from that coming from wind turbines.