- ISBN13: 9781931498142
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Product Description
Wind energy today is a booming worldwide industry. The technology has truly come of age, with better, more reliable machinery and a greater understanding of how and where wind power makes sense--from the independent homestead to a
Wind Power, Revised Edition: Renewable Energy for Home, Farm, and Business
This book is very good but the author need to go first from the general to the particular, specially in formulas. Going first from the particular then later jumping to the general formulas make the understanding kind of confusing.
Also the formulas are written in smaller fonts than that used in the wording text, for me some times were difficult to read. I rather would save some space in some many post card type pictures and and use it for bigger fonts in the formulas.
Other than this, the book is very good for a general understanding of wing power generation technology with so many graphs, tables, information, references and…. pictures.
M Sanchez
Rating: 4 / 5
Certainly in this book is covered in detail all that one must know about wind power, except evidently grid-tie systems without batteries as the chapter about it, Interconnection with the Utility, has little technical information about this new topic in which the Inverter and its Anti-Islanding requisite to protect the Utility maintenance personnel during outages, makes the wind generator useless when it is more needed, as the inverter must shut down the whole system during that time when the grid is off.
In fact most books about wind power has little to say about this topic either, they usually are about systems with batteries; even excellent references as the must-read books by Hugh Piggott, A Wind Turbine Recipe Book and How to Build a Wind Turbine, and The Renewable Energy Handbook by William H. Kemp they do not touch this topic for which I was looking for a solution because in my particular project it is a real need: during outages I have much wind.
Because of a long and kind conversation with a Power One engineer, I think I have found a solution for this problem, that I pretend to test in the very near future in my own place, and that I want to share with the wind power community through this great opportunity offered by Amazon; the solution is to install a similar controller(without the bridge rectifier)with dump loads on the AC side of the inverter, i.e., 240Vac, as that one used on the controller on the AC side of the wind generator to prevent over voltages when there is too much wind. Additionally we must have a small power plant(instead of batteries) with good frequency and voltages to simulate the grid during outages but connected manually, with a corresponding disconnect switch for the grid, a so called transfer switch.
I really would appreciate any comment about this problem!!!
Edgar
Rating: 5 / 5
Its bulk information & know-how represented in the most fluent manner possible. Its like getting a course of wind energy.
Fully recommend for wind passionates.
Rating: 5 / 5
Indeed a lot of information on windpower, from mini-systems to full scale development and everything in between. Interesting reading, but too detailed for general reading (although using it as a reference document certainly is valuable) and not enough details if you really want to design or install your own full fledged system. However, if you plan to buy a unit, this book gives you lots information to prevent circumvent the pitfalls.
Rating: 3 / 5
This is a very technical book. Loads of details. Eye opening for any amature thinking “Oh, I’ll just get a windmill and I won’t have any more electric bills!” Worth reading if you really want to produce green electricity. You need considerable land, about a year’s worth the wind data for your particular site, more than a few thousand bucks, and even then, you may still find that it won’t pay for itself. One thing I didn’t think about is that ice can form on the blades and fling off- hitting your home, a neighbor’s home, or a car…
Is it a good book? Yes. Very clear, complete information on the topic.
Rating: 4 / 5