Wind Energy Design

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"Wind Energy Systems is designed for undergraduate engineering courses, with a focus on multidisciplinary design of a wind energy system. The text covers basic wind power concepts and components - wind characteristics and modeling, rotor aerodynamics, lightweight flexible structures, wind farms, aerodynamics, wind turbine control, acoustics, energy storage, and economics. These topics are applied to produce a new conceptual wind energy design, showing the interplay of various design aspects in a complete system. An ongoing case study demonstrates the integration of various component topics, and MATLAB examples are included to show computerized design analysis procedures and techniques."--Provided by publisher. Read more... Abstract: "Wind Energy Systems is designed for undergraduate engineering courses, with a focus on multidisciplinary design of a wind energy system. The text covers basic wind power concepts and components - wind characteristics and modeling, rotor aerodynamics, lightweight flexible structures, wind farms, aerodynamics, wind turbine control, acoustics, energy storage, and economics. These topics are applied to produce a new conceptual wind energy design, showing the interplay of various design aspects in a complete system. An ongoing case study demonstrates the integration of various component topics, and MATLAB examples are included to show computerized design analysis procedures and techniques."--Provided by publisher Content: Cover Half title Title Copyright Dedication Contents Preface List of Figures List of Tables Chapter 1 Introduction 1.1 History of Wind Energy 1.1.1 Modern Era of Wind Energy Chapter 2 Wind Regimes 2.1 Origin of Wind 2.2 Atmospheric Boundary Layer 2.3 Temporal Statistics 2.4 Wind Speed Probability 2.5 Statistical Models 2.5.1 Weibull Distribution 2.5.2 Methods for Weibull model ts 2.5.3 Rayleigh Distribution 2.6 Energy Estimation of Wind Regimes 2.6.0.1 Weibull-based Energy Estimation Approach 2.6.1 Rayleigh-based Energy Estimation Approach 2.7 Wind Condition Measurement2.7.1 Wind Speed Anemometers Chapter 3 Introduction to Aerodynamics 3.1 Introduction 3.2 Airfoil Geometry 3.3 Dimensional Analysis 3.4 Airfoil Aerodynamics 3.5 Airfoil Geometry 3.6 Aerodynamic Characteristic of Three NACA Airfoils 3.7 Airfoil Sensitivity to Leading edge Roughness 3.8 New Airfoil Designs for the Wind Power Industry 3.9 Summary Chapter 4 Aerodynamic Performance 4.1 Momentum Theory 4.2 Momentum Theory with Wake Rotation 4.3 Blade Element Momentum (BEM) Theory 4.4 Prandtl's Tip Loss Factor 4.5 Solution of the BEM Equations 4.5.1 Example BEM Equation SolutionChapter 5 Horizontal Wind Turbine Rotor Design 5.1 Designing a New wind Turbine 5.2 Initial Blade Sizing 5.2.1 Example Rotor Design Chapter 6 Wind Turbine Control 6.1 Aerodynamic Torque Control 6.1.1 Electrical Torque Control 6.2 Wind Turbine Operation Strategy 6.2.1 Fixed Speed Designs 6.2.2 Variable Speed Designs 6.2.3 Variable Speed Adaptive Torque Control 6.3 Axial Induction Control Chapter 7 Structural Design 7.1 Rotor Response to Loads 7.2 Rotor Vibration Modes 7.3 Design for Extreme Conditions Chapter 8 Wind Farms 8.1 Wind Turbine Wake E ects8.2 Wind Farm Design Optimization Chapter 9 Wind Turbine Acoustics 9.1 Acoustics Fundamentals 9.2 Sound Pressure Measurement and Weighting 9.3 dB Math 9.4 Low Frequency and Infrasound 9.5 Wind Turbine Sound Sources 9.6 Sound Propagation 9.7 Background Sound 9.8 Noise Standards 9.9 Wind Turbine Project Noise Assessment Chapter 10 Wind Energy Storage 10.1 Electro-chemical Energy Storage 10.1.1 Lead-acid Batteries 10.1.2 Nickel-based Batteries 10.1.3 Lithium-based Batteries 10.1.4 Additional Electro-chemical Storage Technologies 10.1.5 Sodium Sulfur Batteries10.1.6 Redox Flow Battery 10.1.7 Metal-air Battery 10.2 Supercapacitor Storage 10.3 Hydrogen Storage 10.4 Mechanical Energy Storage Systems 10.4.1 Pumped Storage Hydroelectricity 10.4.2 Compressed Air Storage 10.4.3 Flywheel Storage 10.5 CAES Case Study 10.5.1 Cost Function 10.5.2 Net Bene t 10.6 Battery Case Study 10.7 Hydro-electric Storage Case Study 10.8 Buoyant Hydraulic Energy Storage Case Study Chapter 11 Economics 11.1 Cost of Energy, COE 11.2 Component Estimate Formulas 11.3 Example Cost Breakdown 11.4 Summary