TY  - BOOK
AU  - Letcher,T.M.
TI  - Wind energy engineering: a handbook for onshore and offshore wind turbines 
SN  - 9780128094518
U1  - 621.312136 23
PY  - 2017///]
CY  - London, San Diego
PB  - Academic Press, an imprint of Elsevier
KW  - Wind turbines
KW  - Handbooks, manuals, etc
KW  - Wind power
KW  - fast
KW  - Handbooks and manuals
N1  - Includes bibliographical references and index; List of contributors --; Preface --; Part I; Introduction; Why wind energy?; Trevor M. Letcher --; Part II; Wind resource and wind energy worldwide; Wind power fundamentals; Alexander Kalmikov -; Estimation of wind energy potential and prediction of wind power; Jing Shi and Ergin Erdem -; Global potential for wind-generated electricity; Xi Lu and Michael B. McElroy -; The future of wind energy development in China; Pei-yang Guo [and others] -; Wind power in the German system - research and development for the transition toward a sustainable energy future; Matthias Luther, Kurt Rohrig, and Wilhelm Winter --; Part III; Wind turbine technology; History of harnessing wind power; Magdi Ragheb -; Wind turbine technologies; Anca D. Hansen -; Aerodynamics and design of horizontal-axis wind turbines; Martin O.L. Hansen -; Vertical axis wind turbines: farm and turbine design; Robert Whittlesey -; Multielement airfoils for wind turbines; Adam M. Ragheb and Michael S. Selig -; Civil engineering aspects of a wind farm and wind turbine structures; Subhamoy Bhattacharya -; Civil engineering challenges associated with design of offshore wind turbines with special reference to China; Subhamoy Bhattacharya [and others] -; Numerical methods for SSI analysis of offshore wind turbine foundations; Susana Lopez-Querol, Liang Cui, and Subhamoy Bhattacharya -; Reliability of wind turbines; Shuangwen Shen and Ryan O'Connor -; Practical method to estimate foundation stiffness for design of offshore wind turbines; Saleh Jalbi, Masoud Shadlou, and Subhamoy Bhattacharya -; Physical modeling of offshore wind turbine model for prediction of prototype response; Domenico Lombardi, Subhamoy Bhattacharya, and George Nikitas --; Part IV; Generation of electricity; Energy and carbon intensities of stored wind energy; Charles J. Barnhart -; Small-scale wind turbines; Patrick A.B. James and AbuBakr S. Bahaj -; Integration into national grids; Jurgen Weiss and T. Bruce Tsuchida --; Part V; Environmental impacts of wind energy; Life cycle assessment: meta-analysis of cumulative energy demand for wind energy technologies; Michael Carbajales-Dale -; Environmental and structural safety issues related to wind energy; Kaoshan Dai, Kewei Gao, and Zhenhua Huang -; Wind turbines and landscape; Marc van Grieken and Beatrice Dower -; Global rare earth supply, life cycle assessment, and wind energy; Zhehan Weng and Gavin M. Mudd --; Part VI; Financial modeling/wind economics; Economics of wind power generation; Magdi Ragheb --; Part VII; Investment, growth trends, and the future of wind energy; Growth trends and the future of wind energy; Lauha Fried, Shruti Shukla, and Steve Sawyer --; Index
N2  - "Wind energy is pivotal in global electricity generation and for contributing for achieving future essential energy demands and targets.  In this fast moving field,  Wind Energy Engineering: A Handbook for onshore and offshore Wind Turbines is the most advanced, up to date, and research focused text on all aspects of wind energy engineering.  This must-have edition starts with an in-depth look at the fundamentals of wind power, the present state of wind power in the worldwide, integration into national grids, and continues with a high-level assessment of the advances in turbine technology and how the investment, planning, aesthetics, and economic infrastructure can support those innovations.  It also includes chapters on storing wind energy, small-scale wind systems, life cycle assessments, investments, and growth trends" -- Back cover
ER  -