Wind power generation and wind turbine design / edited by Wei Tong.

CONTENT

Part I Basics in Wind Power Generation

Chapter 1
Fundamental of wind energy
1 Wind Energy
2 Wind Generation
etc

Chapter 2
Wind resource and site assesment
1 Initial site Identification
2 wind Speed measurements
etc

chapter 3
Aerodynamics and aeroelastic of wind turbines
1 Introduction
2 Analytical theories
etc

chapter 4
Structural dynamics of wind turbines
1 wind turbines from a structural stand point
2 Formulation of the dynamic equations
3 beam theory and FEM approximations
etc

Chapter 5
Wind turbine acoustics
1 What is noise
2 Are wind turbines really noisy
3 Definitions
etc

Part II : Design of Modern Wind Turbines

Chapter 6
Design and development of megawatt wind turbines
1 Introduction
2 motivation for developing megawatt size WTs
3 The product design process
etc

Chapter 7
Design and development of small wind turbines
1 Small wind technology
2 Future developments
3 Conclusion

chapter 8
Development and amnalysis of vertical axis wind turbines
1 Introduction
2 Historical development of VAWTS
3 Analysis of VAWT performance
4 summary

Chapter 9
Direct drive superconducting wind generators
1 introduction
2 Wind turbine Technology
3 Superconducting rotating machines
etc

Chapter 10
Intelligent wind power unit with tandem wind rotors
1 Introduction
2 Previous Works on tandem rotors
3 Superior operation of intelligent wind power unit
etc

chapter 11
Offshore wind turbine design
1 Introduction
2 Offshore resource potential
3 current technology trends
etc

Chapter 12
New small Turbine Technologies
1 Introduction
2 Other technical problems particular with SWTs
3 Purposes of use of SWTs
4 Wind Conditions
etc


Part III Design of wind Turbine components

Chapter 13
Blade materials, testing methods and structural design
1 Introduction
2 Blade Manufacture
3 Testing of wind turbine blades
etc

Chapter 14
Implement of the smart rotor concept
1 Introduction
2 Adaptive wings and rotor blades
3 Adaptive Materials
etc

Chapter 15
Optimized design and analysis
1 Introduction
2 Basic gear tooth design
3 Geartrains
etc

Chapter 16
Tower design analysis
1 Introduction
2 Analysis of Towers
3 Design of tower
etc

Chapter 17
Design of support structures for offshore wind turbines
1 Introduction
2 History of offshore , wind and offshore wind development
3 Support structure concepts
etc

Chapter 18
Power curves for wind turbines
1 Introduction
2 Power performance of wind turbines
3 Perspective
4 Conclusion

Chapter 19
Wind turbine cooling technologies
1 Operating principle and structure of wind turbines
2 Heat dissipating components and analysis
3 Current wind turbine cooling system
etc

Chapter 20
Wind turbine noise measurements and abatement methods
1 Introduction
2 Noise types and patterns
3 Sound level
etc

Chapter 21
Wind energy storage technologies
Introduction
2 Parameters of an energy storage device
3 Energy storage plant components
4 Energy storage technologies
5 Energy storage applications
etc

Includes index p.716-725.

Fundamental of wind energy / Wei Tong -- Wind resource and site assessment / Wiebke Langreder -- Aerodynamics and aeroelastics of wind turbines / Alois P. Schaffarczyk -- Structural dynamics of wind turbines / Spyros G. Voutsinas -- Wind turbine acoustics / Robert Z. Szasz & Laszlo Fuchs -- Design and development of megawatt wind turbines / Lawrence D. Willey -- Design and development of small wind turbines / Lawrence Staudt -- Development and analysis of vertical-axis wind turbines / Paul Cooper -- Direct drive superconducting wind generators / Clive Lewis -- Intelligent wind power unit with tandem wind rotors / Toshiaki Kanemoto & Koichi Kubo -- Offshore wind turbine design / Danian Zheng & Sumir Bose -- New small turbine technologies / Hikaru Matsumiya -- Blade materials, testing methods and structural design / Bent F. Sørensten ... [et al.] -- Implementation of the 'smart' rotor concept / Anton W. Hulskamp & Harald E.N. Bersee -- Optimized gearbox design / Ray Hicks -- Tower design and analysis / Biswajit Basu -- Design of support structures for offshore wind turbines / J. van der Tempel ... [et al.] -- Power curves for wind turbines / Patrick Milan ... [et al.] -- Wind turbine cooling technologies / Yanglong Jiang -- Wind turbine noise measurements and abatement methods / Panagiota Pantazopoulou -- Wind energy storage technologies / Martin Leahy, David Connolly & Noel Buckley.