Innovative Wind Turbines
eBook - ePub

Innovative Wind Turbines

An Illustrated Guidebook

  1. 144 pages
  2. English
  3. ePUB (mobile friendly)
  4. Available on iOS & Android
eBook - ePub

Innovative Wind Turbines

An Illustrated Guidebook

About this book

Innovative Wind Turbines is a tribute to the inventors, entrepreneurs, researchers, and companies that through their efforts have envisioned, designed, and constructed models and prototypes for wind energy devices. There are numerous concepts and ideas on ways to convert wind energy into usable energy, and this book examines the innovative, novel, or unusual concepts with numerous photos and historical examples. Primarily, only prototypes that have been constructed are mentioned, along with a few design concepts. The wind turbines are divided by types: horizontal axis wind turbines, ducted wind turbines, vertical axis wind turbines, airborne wind turbines, and more.

Features:

  • Includes numerous photos of innovative wind turbines

  • Presents information and examples of multiple rotor, multiple blade designs

  • Includes information and examples of airborne wind energy systems

  • Examines novel blade designs, including whale blades and biomimicry

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Information

Publisher
CRC Press
Year
2019
Print ISBN
9780367819316
eBook ISBN
9781000766097
Topic
Physical Sciences
Subtopic
Commodities

Table of contents

  1. Cover
  2. Half Title
  3. Title Page
  4. Copyright Page
  5. Contents
  6. Preface
  7. Acknowledgments
  8. Author
  9. Chapter 1: Introduction
  10. Chapter 2: Horizontal Axis Wind Turbines
  11. Chapter 3: Ducted Wind Turbines
  12. Chapter 4: Vertical Axis Wind Turbines
  13. Chapter 5: Airborne Wind Energy
  14. Chapter 6: More Wind Turbines
  15. Index

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