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Showing 1 to 9 of 9 for “"Wind turbine technology"”.
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Reactive power compensation of fixed speed wind turbines using a hybrid wind turbine technology
There has been significant growth in the use of wind energy as an alternative form of energy by many countries globally. This is in direct response to calls to reduce environmental pollution from the usage of fossil fuels in energy generation. Due to the intermittency of wind energy, the …
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The design and testing of a horizontal axis wind turbine with sailfoil blades
… development and testing of a horizontal axis wind turbine (HAWT) with Sailfoil blades.<br></br><br></br> Included is a brief history of wind turbine technology, its revival, a review of current wind energy developments and a literature survey of previous work on wind turbines with sail type …
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Parametric design of floating wind turbines
As the price of energy increases and wind turbine technology matures, it is evident that cost effective designs for floating wind turbines are needed. The next frontier for wind power is the ocean, yet development in near shore waters has been slowed by aesthetic concerns of coastal residents. …
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Design of wind turbines with Ultra-High Performance Concrete
… costs. However, UHPC has not been applied yet to wind turbine technology. Design codes do not propose any recommendations or guidance for the towers, thus encouraging the engineer to use less effective traditional materials like steel. The purpose of this thesis is to propose an efficient way to …
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Quantifying the relationship between wind turbine component failure rates and wind speed
Onshore wind turbine technology has matured to the point when assets are now expected to produce availabilities greater than 97%. The wind speed a wind turbine operates in has an impact on its reliability. Hitherto this relationship has not been defined, quantified or used to undertake analysis to …
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Proof of Concept Test for Dual-Axis Resonant Phase-Locked Excitation (PhLEX) Fatigue Testing Method for Wind Turbine Blades
<p>The installed capacity of wind turbines has grown steadily for the past decade with wind energy now providing 3.6-percent of the U.S.’s electricity supply [13]. This trend can be attributed to advancements in wind turbine technology and the ability to increase wind turbine sizes. As wind …
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Development of offshore wind operational expenditure model and investigation of optimum operation and maintenance fleet
Offshore wind turbine technology is moving forward as an alternative to the fossil fuelled power production. However, there are a number of challenges in further offshore areas; wind turbines are subject to loads that are not often experienced onshore and more importantly challenging wind and wave …
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Re-Innovation Nation: The Strategic and Political Logic of Technology Transfer Policy in Rising China
… efforts to accelerate its economic rise using technology extraction policies, defined as measures that condition foreign access to China’s market on technology transfers to domestic firms. Using original data, I address two puzzling and previously unexamined patterns in China’s technology …