Use, Operation and Maintenance of Renewable Energy Systems

1. Front Matter

   Pages i-xii

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2. Operation and Maintenance

   1. Front Matter

      Pages 1-1

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   2. Condition Monitoring and Maintenance Methods in Wind Turbines

      • Rodrigo J. A. Vieira, Miguel A. Sanz-Bobi

      Pages 3-59

   3. Operation and Maintenance Methods in Solar Power Plants

      • Mustapha Hatti

      Pages 61-93

   4. Biological Biogas

      • Paul Harris

      Pages 95-110

   5. Development, Operation, and Future Prospects for Implementing Biogas Plants: The Case of Denmark

      • Rikke Lybæk

      Pages 111-144

   6. Operation and Maintenance Contracts for Wind Turbines

      • Rafael S. Ferreira, Charles D. Feinstein, Luiz A. Barroso

      Pages 145-181

3. Integration of Renewable Energy in Traditional Energy Systems

   1. Front Matter

      Pages 183-183

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   2. Grid Integration of Wind Power Generation

      • L. Rouco

      Pages 185-203

   3. Control Methods Applied in Renewable Energy Systems

      • Ilhami Colak, Ersan Kabalci

      Pages 205-246

   4. Low-Cost Hybrid Systems of Renewable Energy

      • Petronio Vieira Jr.

      Pages 247-293

   5. Design for Reliability of Power Electronics in Renewable Energy Systems

      • Ke Ma, Yongheng Yang, Huai Wang, Frede Blaabjerg

      Pages 295-338

4. Renewable Energy Systems Supporting Industrial Applications

   1. Front Matter

      Pages 339-339

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   2. Use of Renewable Energy Systems in Smart Cities

      • Alvaro Sanchez-Miralles, Christian Calvillo, Francisco Martín, José Villar

      Pages 341-370

   3. Analysis of the Impact of Increasing Shares of Electric Vehicles on the Integration of RES Generation

      • Andres Ramos, Kristin Dietrich, Fernando Banez-Chicharro, Luis Olmos, Jesus M. Latorre

      Pages 371-385

This book addresses the use, operation and maintenance of new renewable energy systems, taking into account their integration in the current electrical markets and in the new emergent uses of energy. The book is based on practical experiences which present different perspectives about what occurs once an energy production plant based on sources of renewable energy is in production. Questions to be addressed include: how the energy produced is integrated into the current system of energy production, what is its consideration in the electrical market, what the impact is on society, how differential the strategies of operation and maintenance are with respect to conventional systems of energy production, etc.

• Biogas Plant Feasibility
• LCA Technique
• Low Cost Hybrid Systems
• Maintenance Methods in Wind Turbines
• Maintenance in Solar Power Plants
• Off-Shore Wind Energy
• Photovoltaic Solar Energy
• RES Generation
• Renewable Energy Systems
• Smart Cities

• Comillas Pontifical University, Madrid, Spain

  Miguel A. Sanz-Bobi

Dr. Miguel A. Sanz-Bobi has been an IEEE Senior member since 2008. He is a Professor at the Computer Science Department and also Researcher at the Institute for Research and Technology (IIT) both within the Engineering School of the Comillas Pontifical University, Madrid (Spain). He divides his time between teaching and research in the Artificial Intelligence field applied to diagnosis and maintenance of industrial processes. He has been the main researcher in more than 45 industrial projects over the last 25 years related to the diagnosis in real-time of industrial processes, incipient detection of anomalies based on models, knowledge acquisition and representation, reliability and predictive maintenance. All these projects have been based on a combination of artificial intelligence, new information technologies and data mining techniques.

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