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The authoritative reference on wind energy, now fully revised
and updated to include offshore wind power
A decade on from its first release, the "Wind Energy Handbook,"
Second Edition, reflects the advances in technology underpinning
the continued expansion of the global wind power sector. Harnessing
their collective industrial and academic expertise, the authors
provide a comprehensive introduction to wind turbine design and
wind farm planning for onshore and offshore wind-powered
electricity generation.
The major change since the first edition is the addition of a
new chapter on offshore wind turbines and offshore wind farm
development. Opening with a survey of the present state of offshore
wind farm development, the chapter goes on to consider resource
assessment and array losses. Then wave loading on support
structures is examined in depth, including wind and wave load
combinations and descriptions of applicable wave theories. After
sections covering optimum machine size and offshore turbine
reliability, the different types of support structure deployed to
date are described in turn, with emphasis on monopiles, including
fatigue analysis in the frequency domain. Final sections examine
the assessment of environmental impacts and the design of the power
collection and transmission cable network.
New coverage features: turbulence models updated to reflect the
latest design standards, including an introduction to the Mann
turbulence modelextended treatment of horizontal axis wind turbines
aerodynamics, now including a survey of wind turbine aerofoils,
dynamic stall and computational fluid dynamicsdevelopments in
turbine design codestechniques for extrapolating extreme loads from
simulation resultsan introduction to the NREL cost modelcomparison
of options for variable speed operationin-depth treatment of
individual blade pitch controlgrid code requirements and the
principles governing the connection of large wind farms to
transmission networksfour pages of full-colour pictures that
illustrate blade manufacture, turbine construction and offshore
support structure installation
Firmly established as an essential reference, "Wind Energy
Handbook," Second Edition will prove a real asset to engineers,
turbine designers and wind energy consultants both in industry and
research. Advanced engineering students and new entrants to the
wind energy sector will also find it an invaluable resource.
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