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Wind Power Plants - Fundamentals, Design, Construction and Operation
Edited by Prof.Dr.-Ing.Robert Gasch and Dr.-Ing.Jochen Twele
James and James
October 2005
Softcover 416pp ISBN 1902916387
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Note: This book is currently out of print (January 2008)
It may be reprinted. If you request a proforma invoice
we will inform you as and when it is reprinted .
Published in association with SOLARPRAXIS, 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 academia
and industry.
This book 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.
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