Wind Energy Engineering: A Handbook for Onshore and Offshore Wind Turbines

This fully revised edition, Wind Energy Engineering: A Handbook for Onshore and Offshore Wind Turbines, Second Edition, continues to be the most advanced, up-to-date and research-focused text on all aspects of wind energy engineering. Covering a wider spectrum of topics in the field of wind turbines (offshore and onshore), this new edition includes new intelligent turbine designs and optimization, current challenges and efficiencies, remote sensing and smart monitoring and key areas or advancement such as floating wind turbines. Each chapter includes a research overview with a detailed analysis and new case studies looking at how recent research developments can be applied. Written by some of the most forward-thinking professionals in the field and giving a complete examination of one of the most promising and efficient sources of renewable energy, this book is an invaluable reference into this cross-disciplinary field for engineers. Offers all-round understanding of links between resources world-wide, wind turbine technology, electricity and environmental issues, and economics Global experts provide the very latest research and development in over 33 fields of endeavor related to the wind power Includes extensive sets of references in each chapter giving readers all the very latest thinking and information on each topic to become aware of the challenges INDICE: 1. Climate Change and Wind Energy2. A History of Harnessing Wind Power 3. A SWOT Analysis of Wind Power 4. Wind Power Fundamentals 4b. Wind Turbines and atmospheric wind stabiity 5. Estimation of wind energy potential and prediction of wind power 6. Global Potential for Wind Generated Electricity 7. The Future of Wind Energy Development in China8. The European wind atlas9. The impacts of wakes on large wind farms onshore and offshore. 10. Design of wind turbines 11. Wind Turbine Technologies 12. Civil Engineering aspects of a wind farm and wind turbine structure Subhamoy Bhattacharya 13. Aerodynamics and the design of horizontal axis wind turbines 14. Civil Engineering challenges associated with design of Offshore Wind Turbines with special reference to China 15. Numerical methods for SSI analysis of Offshore Wind Turbine Foundations. Susana Lopez-Querol, Liasanang |Cui, 16. Reliability of Wind Turbines 16b. Wind Turbine Efficiencies 16c. Wind Turbine reliability 17. Practical Method to Estimate Foundation Stiffness for the Design of Offshore Wind Turbines 18. Physical Modelling of Offshore Wind Turbine Model for Prediction of Prototype Response 19. Seismic Design of Offshore Wind Turbines 20. The application of remore sensing to large wind farm 21. Floating Wind Turbines 21b.Deep Water Water Wind Farms or 21c. Problems with floating wind turbines22. Grand challenges in Wind Turbine Technology 23. Design and modelling of wind farms and wind turbines 24. Vibration suppression in off-shore wind turbines 25. Intelligent design and optimization of Wind Turbines 26. Challenges in designing floating Wind Turbines. 27. Optimizing energy from floating wind turbines 28. Novel Wind Turbine Concepts 29. Optimizing wind turbine performance : getting the most out of wind turbines 30. Wind Turbine optimization with Lidar control systems 31. Future Opportunities for Wind Power - deepwater wind farms? 32. Storing energy from wind turbines 33. Small scale wind turbines 34. Wind energy and grid connections and integration 35. Life cycle assessment: meta-analysis of cumulative energy demand for wind energy technologies 36. Environmental and structural safety issues related to wind energy 37. Wind Turbines and the Landscape 38. Global Rare Earth Supply: Life Cycle Assessment and Wind Energy 39. Smart Monitoring, Inspection and Life-Cycle Assessment of Wind Turbines 40. Porus material for trailing edge noise abatement in Wind Turbines 41. Decommissioning, recycling and end-use of wind turbines 42. Cost modelling of Offshore Wind Turbines 43. Certification of new foundations for offshore wind turbines

• ISBN: 978-0-323-99353-1
• Editorial: Academic Press
• Encuadernacion: Cartoné
• Páginas: 622
• Fecha Publicación: 01/11/2022
• Nº Volúmenes: 1
• Idioma: Inglés