Full Description

This state-of-the-art guide to wind turbine engineering lets you examine the real-life choices made by inventors, designers, and builders of turbines; absorb their practical lessons; and synthesize the experience of a wide range of wind energy professionals.

You get technical expertise on a wide range of material, including advances in aerodynamics, structural dynamics and fatigue, wind characteristics, acoustic and electromagnetic emissions, commercial wind power applications, and utility power systems.

Packed with applications-oriented advice--and including numerous graphics and numerical examples--this authoritative volume provides uniform terminology, nomenclature, and graphic style as well as widespread cross-referencing.

Covering design concepts and philosophies, research and demonstration projects, and the integration of wind power plants into electrical utility systems, Wind Turbine Technology is both a practical reference and a classroom text.

Product Details

Published: 01/01/1994 ISBN(s): 0791812057 Number of Pages: 656