Wind Power Generation and Wind Turbine Design

By Ahmed Shawky Last updated Oct 12, 2018

Wind Power Generation and Wind Turbine Design

The object of Wind Power Generation and Wind Turbine Design is to provide engineers and researchers in the wind power industry, national laboratories, and universities with comprehensive, up-todate, and advanced design techniques and practical approaches. The topics addressed in this book involve the major concerns in wind power generation and wind turbine design. An attempt has been made to include more recent developments in innovative wind technologies, particularly from large wind turbine OEMs. This book is a useful and timely contribution to the wind energy community as a resource for engineers and researchers. It is also suitable to serve as a textbook for a one- or two-semester course at the graduate or undergraduate levels, with the use of all or partial chapters.

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Wind energy is a converted form of solar energy which is produced by the nuclear fusion of hydrogen (H) into helium (He) in its core. The H → He fusion process creates heat and electromagnetic radiation streams out from the sun into space in all directions. Though only a small portion of solar radiation is intercepted by the earth, it provides almost all of earth’s energy needs.