Electrical Drives for Direct Drive Renewable Energy Systems

• Author : Markus Mueller,Henk Polinder
• Publisher : Woodhead Publishing Limited
• Release Date : 2013
• Total pages : 264
• ISBN : 9781845697839

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Summary : Wind turbine gearboxes are one of the major reliability problems for wind energy operators and cause expensive maintenance and repair jobs when failures occur, particularly in offshore wind farms. Gearless direct drive wind energy systems present a potential solution to these problems, improving both reliability and energy conversion efficiency through ...

• Author : Markus Mueller,Henk Polinder
• Publisher : Elsevier
• Release Date : 2013-03-25
• Total pages : 280
• ISBN : 9781845697839

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Summary : Wind turbine gearboxes present major reliability issues, leading to great interest in the current development of gearless direct-drive wind energy systems. Offering high reliability, high efficiency and low maintenance, developments in these direct-drive systems point the way to the next generation of wind power, and Electrical drives for direct drive ...

• Author : Guedes Soares Carlos
• Publisher : CRC Press
• Release Date : 2020-10-13
• Total pages : 802
• ISBN : 9781845697839

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Summary : Developments in Renewable Energies Offshore contains the papers presented at the 4th International Conference on Renewable Energies Offshore (RENEW 2020, Lisbon, Portugal, 12 - 15 October 2020). The book covers a wide range of topics, including: resource assessment; wind energy; wave energy; tidal energy; ocean energy devices; multiuse platforms; PTO design; grid connection; economic ...

• Author : Chong Ng,Li Ran
• Publisher : Woodhead Publishing
• Release Date : 2016-03-03
• Total pages : 654
• ISBN : 9781845697839

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Summary : Offshore Wind Farms: Technologies, Design and Operation provides the latest information on offshore wind energy, one of Europe’s most promising and quickly maturing industries, and a potentially huge untapped renewable energy source which could contribute significantly towards EU 20-20-20 renewable energy generation targets. It has been estimated that ...

• Author : Manuel Pérez-Donsión,Gianpaolo Vitale
• Publisher : Cambridge Scholars Publishing
• Release Date : 2020-02-13
• Total pages : 916
• ISBN : 9781845697839

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Summary : This volume brings together contributions dealing with renewable energies and power quality, presented over five years of the International Conference on Renewable Energy and Power Quality (ICREPQ). It contains a selection of the best papers and original contributions presenting state-of-the-art research in the field of renewable energy sources. Including some ...

• Author : Andrea Cipollina,Giorgio Micale
• Publisher : Woodhead Publishing
• Release Date : 2016-03-01
• Total pages : 362
• ISBN : 9781845697839

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Summary : Salinity gradient energy, also known as blue energy and osmotic energy, is the energy obtainable from the difference in salt concentration between two feed solutions, typically sea water and river water. It is a large-scale renewable resource that can be harvested and converted to electricity. Efficient extraction of this energy ...

• Author : Bruno Scrosati,Jurgen Garche,Werner Tillmetz
• Publisher : Woodhead Publishing
• Release Date : 2015-05-25
• Total pages : 546
• ISBN : 9781845697839

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Summary : Advances in Battery Technologies for Electric Vehicles provides an in-depth look into the research being conducted on the development of more efficient batteries capable of long distance travel. The text contains an introductory section on the market for battery and hybrid electric vehicles, then thoroughly presents the latest on lithium-ion ...

• Author : Liu, Yingzhen
• Publisher : KIT Scientific Publishing
• Release Date : 2020-11-18
• Total pages : 230
• ISBN : 9781845697839

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Summary : The trend towards larger power ratings of wind turbines asks for innovations in power generation, which requires lower weight and cost, smaller size, higher efficiency and reliability. Due to high current-carrying capability and no DC losses of superconductors, a superconducting wind generator can have a superior power to weight/volume ...

• Author : Luisa F. Cabeza
• Publisher : Elsevier
• Release Date : 2014-10-31
• Total pages : 612
• ISBN : 9781845697839

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Summary : Thermal energy storage (TES) technologies store thermal energy (both heat and cold) for later use as required, rather than at the time of production. They are therefore important counterparts to various intermittent renewable energy generation methods and also provide a way of valorising waste process heat and reducing the energy ...

• Author : Gerhard Stryi-Hipp
• Publisher : Elsevier
• Release Date : 2015-11-20
• Total pages : 290
• ISBN : 9781845697839

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Summary : Renewable Heating and Cooling: Technologies and Applications presents the latest information on the generation of heat for industry and domestic purposes, an area where a significant proportion of total energy is consumed. In Europe, this figure is estimated to be almost 50%, with the majority of heat generated by the consumption ...

• Author : Ennio Macchi,Marco Astolfi
• Publisher : Woodhead Publishing
• Release Date : 2016-08-24
• Total pages : 698
• ISBN : 9781845697839

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Summary : Organic Rankine Cycle (ORC) Power Systems: Technologies and Applications provides a systematic and detailed description of organic Rankine cycle technologies and the way they are increasingly of interest for cost-effective sustainable energy generation. Popular applications include cogeneration from biomass and electricity generation from geothermal reservoirs and concentrating solar power installations, ...

• Author : Nicola Pearsall
• Publisher : Woodhead Publishing
• Release Date : 2016-10-15
• Total pages : 366
• ISBN : 9781845697839

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Summary : The Performance of Photovoltaic (PV) Systems: Modelling, Measurement and Assessment explores the system lifetime of a PV system and the energy output of the system over that lifetime. The book concentrates on the prediction, measurement, and assessment of the performance of PV systems, allowing the reader to obtain a thorough ...

• Author : Robin Wiltshire
• Publisher : Woodhead Publishing
• Release Date : 2015-08-31
• Total pages : 364
• ISBN : 9781845697839

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Summary : Advanced District Heating and Cooling (DHC) Systems presents the latest information on the topic, providing valuable information on the distribution of centrally generated heat or cold energy to buildings, usually in the form of space heating, cooling, and hot water. As DHC systems are more efficient and less polluting than ...

• Author : Simon Rees
• Publisher : Woodhead Publishing
• Release Date : 2016-05-13
• Total pages : 482
• ISBN : 9781845697839

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Summary : Advances in Ground-Source Heat Pump Systems relates the latest information on source heat pumps (GSHPs), the types of heating and/or cooling systems that transfer heat from, or to, the ground, or, less commonly, a body of water. As one of the fastest growing renewable energy technologies, they are amongst ...

• Author : Weifei Hu
• Publisher : Springer
• Release Date : 2018-05-07
• Total pages : 349
• ISBN : 9781845697839

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Summary : This book introduces the current challenges in modern wind turbine analysis, design and development, and provides a comprehensive examination of state-of-the-art technologies from both academia and industry. The twelve information-rich chapters cover a wide range of topics including reliability-based design, computational fluid dynamics, gearbox and bearing analyses, lightning analysis, structural ...