Title: Windpower :
Authors: Hunt, V. Daniel.
Date: 1981
Publisher: Van Nostrand Reinhold Co.,
Physical description: xvii, 610 pages : illustrations ; 26 cm
Language: English
LC classification: T
Contents: Preface -- 1. Introduction -- The scope of this handbook -- Background -- 2. Historical development -- Early wind energy conversion systems -- Wind energy conversion systems in the twentieth century -- The energy problem today -- 3. Wind characteristics and their impact -- The wind -- Wind hazards -- Siting of wind energy conversion systems -- 4. Fundamental operation of wind energy conversion systems -- Wind power -- how it works -- Basic elements of wind energy conversion systems -- Operation of water-pumping wind energy conversion systems -- 5. Applied aerodynamics -- Introduction -- Translating wind power machines -- Wind-axis rotors: general momentum theory -- Wind-axis rotors: vortex/strip theory -- Cross-wind-axis machines -- Forces and moments due to vertical wind gradient -- 6. Towers and systems installation -- Wind system towers -- Installation of tower and WECS -- 7. Energy conversion and storage -- Overview -- Energy conversion -- Electric storage systems -- Unique storage systems -- 8. Wind energy conversion systems -- Water-pumping windmills -- Electricity-producing wind energy conversion systems -- 9. Applications -- Potential applications of wind energy conversion systems -- Residential applications -- Wind power uses in agriculture -- 10. Federal wind energy program -- 11. Commercialization -- Introduction -- Small-scale wind energy conversion systems -- Large-scale wind energy conversion systems -- 12. Environmental, institutional, and legal barriers -- Environmental, health, and safety barriers -- Environmental, health, and safety research planning -- Utilization of research information -- Legal barriers -- 13. International development -- 14. The future of wind power -- Introduction -- Views on the future of wind power -- Glossary of terms.
Notes: Includes index.
Subject headings (LCSH): Wind energy conversion systems.; Wind power.