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Wind Turbine Technology: Fundamental Concepts in Wind Turbine Engineering, Second Edition
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9780791802601
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832
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ASME Press
Publication date:
2009
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3A Evolution of Modern Wind Turbines Part A: 1940 to 1994
By
Louis V. Divone
Louis V. Divone
Director
Solar Energy Technologies
U.S. Department of Energy
Washington, DC
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Published:2009
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Divone, LV. "Evolution of Modern Wind Turbines Part A: 1940 to 1994." Wind Turbine Technology: Fundamental Concepts in Wind Turbine Engineering, Second Edition. Ed. Spera, DA. ASME Press, 2009.
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The modern electricity-generating horizontal-axis wind turbine (now often labeled with the acronym HAWT) is an obvious descendant of the historic European windmill and the small, DC-generating wind turbines of the 1930s. The resemblance is somewhat deceptive, however, since the HAWT and its less-familiar vertical-axis cousin, the VAWT, have evolved as sophisticated products of current technology. Their high performance and reliability are the result of steady improvement in methods of aerodynamic and structural design, in new materials, and in mechanical and electrical engineering. The evolution of wind turbine technology in the United States and elsewhere since World War II is described...
Topics:
Wind turbines
Introduction
Wind Turbine Development from 1945 to 1970
The Beginnings of Modern Developments 1970 to 1974
NASA∕DOE Mod-0 100-kW Experimental HAWT: 1975 to 1987
Development of Modern Small-Scale Wind Turbines: 1976 to 1981
Innovative and Unconventional Wind Turbine Concepts
Sandia∕DOE Experimental VAWTs
Supporting Research and Technology
System Configuration Tradeoffs
NASA∕DOE Mod-0A Experimental HAWTs
NASA∕DOE Mod-1 HAWT and Environmental Issues
Foreign Medium- and Large-Scale Wind Turbines
NASA∕DOE Second- and Third-Generation HAWTs
Advanced Wind Turbine Development
Concluding Remarks
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