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Small Wind Turbines

Analysis, Design, and Application

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  • © 2011

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Authors:
  1. David Wood

    1. , Department of Mechanical and, University of Calgary, Calgary, Canada

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  • Provides most of the software necessary for the engineering design of small wind turbines
  • Instructs readers in the specific design of small (as opposed to regular) wind turbines
  • Describes how to use remote power systems with small wind turbines

Part of the book series: Green Energy and Technology (GREEN)

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Table of contents (12 chapters)

  1. Front Matter

    Pages i-xix
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  2. Introduction to Wind Turbine Technology

    • David Wood
    Pages 1-29

  3. Control Volume Analysis for Wind Turbines

    • David Wood
    Pages 31-40

  4. Blade Element Theory for Wind Turbines

    • David Wood
    Pages 41-55

  5. Aerofoils: Lift, Drag, and Circulation

    • David Wood
    Pages 57-75

  6. Blade Element Calculations

    • David Wood
    Pages 77-99

  7. Starting and Low Wind Speed Performance

    • David Wood
    Pages 101-117

  8. Blade Design, Manufacture, and Testing

    • David Wood
    Pages 119-143

  9. The Unsteady Aerodynamics of Turbine Yaw and Over-Speed Protection

    • David Wood
    Pages 145-167

  10. Using the IEC Simple Load Model for Small Wind Turbines

    • David Wood
    Pages 169-198

  11. Tower Design and Manufacture

    • David Wood
    Pages 199-225

  12. Generator and Electrical System

    • David Wood
    Pages 227-250

  13. Site Assessment and Installation

    • David Wood
    Pages 251-264

  14. Back Matter

    Pages 265-270
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About this book

Small Wind Turbines provides a thorough grounding in analysing, designing, building, and installing a small wind turbine. Small turbines are introduced by emphasising their differences from large ones and nearly all the analysis and design examples refer to small turbines.

The accompanying software includes MATLAB® programs for power production and starting performance, as well as programs for detailed multi-objective optimisation of blade design. A spreadsheet is also given to help readers apply the simple load model of the IEC standard for small wind turbine safety. Small Wind Turbines represents the distilled outcome of over twenty years experience in fundamental research, design and installation, and field testing of small wind turbines.

Small Wind Turbines is a suitable reference for student projects and detailed design studies, and also provides important background material for engineers and others using small wind turbines for remote power and distributed generation applications.

Authors and Affiliations

  • , Department of Mechanical and, University of Calgary, Calgary, Canada

    David Wood

About the author

David Wood has Bachelors' and Masters' degrees in Mechanical Engineering from Sydney University and a PhD in Aeronautics from Imperial College, London, UK. He has been Senior Research Associate at NASA Ames Research Centre in California and has spent many years in the Faculty of Engineering at Newcastle University, where he was instrumental in developing a research group in small wind turbine technology. Dr Wood was the Australian representative on the international committee that recently revised the International Electrotechnical Commission safety standard for small wind turbines.  In 2006 he left the University of Newcastle to start Aerogenesis Australia, a small company building small wind turbines.  In February 2010 he was appointed to the Enmax/Schulich Chair of Renewable Energy at the University of Calgary. He is the editor for small turbines and aerodynamics for the journal Wind Engineering and has authored and co-authored over 120 refereed journal and conferencepapers in these areas.  He holds patents on blade and controller design.

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