Wind Power Plants
Fundamentals, Design, Construction and Operation
Robert Gasch and Jochen Twele
Wind Power Plants offers a comprehensive guide to the fundamentals, design, construction and operation of wind turbines.
Topics covered include:
Introduction to wind energy; Historical background; Wind turbines – design and components; The wind; Wind turbine dimensioning; Calculation of performance characteristics and partial loads behaviour; 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 fourteen experts in academic and industry.
Reviews
? ?This book is ? the proven text of the advanced course, developed and honed with the needs of engineering students in mind. [A]ll aspects have careful analysis developed from first principles and with excellent visual illustration? The reader can almost hear the lecturers teaching these subjects? An excellent text that is certainly essential for any wind power library?
Wind Engineering
Prof. Dr.-Ing. Robert Gasch and Dr.-Ing. Jochen Twele, the book's editors, have been lecturing in wind power since 1984 at the Technical University of Berlin, Germany.
Introduction to Wind Energy * Historical Background * Wind Turbines - Design and Components * The Wind * Wind Turbine Dimensioning * Calculation of Performance Characteristics and Partial Loads Behaviour * Structural Loads and Strength Issues * Scaling Wind Turbines and Rules of Similarity * Wind-pumping Systems * Electrical Power Generating Systems * Controlling Wind Turbines * Dynamic Problems * Offshore Wind Farms *