Small-Scale Wind Power: Design, Analysis, and Environmental Impacts (UK PROFESSIONAL SCIENCE & TECHNOLOGY Technical) - Softcover

John Abraham (author) & Brian Plourde (author)

Softcover

ISBN 10: 1606504843 ISBN 13: 9781606504840

Publisher: Momentum Press, 2014

Synopsis

In today's world, clean and robust energy sources are being sought to provide power to residences, commercial operations, and manufacturing enterprises. Among the most appealing energy sources is wind power-with its high reliability and low environmental impact. Wind power's rapid penetration into markets throughout the world has taken many forms, and this book discusses the types of wind power, as well as the appropriate decisions that need to be made regarding wind power design, testing, installation, and analysis. Inside, the authors detail the design of various small-wind systems including horizontal-axis wind turbines (HAWTs) and vertical-axis wind turbines (VAWTs). The design of wind turbines takes advantage of many avenues of investigation, all of which are included in the book. Analytical methods that have been developed over the past few decades are major methods used for design. Alternatively, experimentation (typically using scaled models in wind tunnels) and numerical simulation (using modern computational fluid dynamic software) are also used and will be dealt with in depth. In addition to the analysis of wind turbine performance, it is important for users to assess the economic benefits of using wind power. An entire chapter of this book is devoted to this topic, as well as case studies that help elucidate the issues that you'll need to consider, from siting and mechanical complications, to performance and maintenance.

About this title

About the Author

Dr. John Abraham is a Professor at the University of St. Thomasin Minnesota. Over the past 20 years, he has completed manyresearch projects in the thermal sciences. His work is bothcomputational and experimental and covers both fundamentalsas well as applications. He has produced approximately 200 journal papers, books, book chapters, patents, and conferencepresentations.

Mr. Brian Plourde holds MS and BS degrees in mechanicalengineering from the University of St. Thomas. He is currently a Research Fellow at the University of St. Thomas where he directsindustrial research projects. Mr. Plourde has also helped start three companies in the medical device and clean energy sectors.

Edition details

• Publisher: Momentum Press
• Publication date: 2014
• Language: English
• ISBN 10: 1606504843
• ISBN 13: 9781606504840
• Binding: Paperback
• Number of pages: 196