Summary: | "Wind Turbines" addresses all those professionally involved in research, development, manufacture and operation of wind turbines. It provides a cross-disciplinary overview of modern wind turbine technology and an orientation in the associated technical, economic and environmental fields.� In its revised third edition,�special emphasis has been given�to the latest trends in wind turbine technology and design, such as gearless drive train concepts,�as well as�on new fields of application, in particular the offshore utilisation of wind energy. The author has gained�experience over decades designing wind energy converters with a major industrial manufacturer and, more recently, in technical consulting and in the planning of large wind park installations, with special attention to economics.
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