| WIND ENERGY ENGINEERING Pramod Jain New York: McGraw-Hill, 2011 |
Rating: 5.0 High |
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| ISBN-13 978-0-07-171477-8 | ||||
| ISBN-10 0-07-171477-4 | 330pp. | HC/BWI | $100.00 | |
| Page 30: | "(See column 2 in Table 3-3)" "(See column 3 in Table 3-2)" |
| Both should refer to table 3-2. (The column numbers are correct.) |
| Page 31: | "...above the ground level (AGL)" |
| This may be the only place where Jain inserts an article (the, an) where English usage does not have one — as opposed to omitting them where it does. |
| Pages 31-2: | Weibull distribution and Rayleigh distribution |
| Jain both emphasizes the fact that Weibull distribution becomes Rayleigh distribution when k=2 and glosses over it in his examples. |
| Page 33: | "Table 3-4 shows wind values at 10 meters as well as 50 meters AGL. |
| If wind class is defined by average wind speed at 50 meters AGL, why present values at 10 meters? |
| Page 39: | "There will be a 2 or 17.8% drop..." |
| The highlighted value is meaningless in context. |
| Page 68: | "Value 0.84 for 1/lambda in Figure 5-4" |
| This value should be 0.084. |
| Page 79: | "The lines representing anenometer classes in Figure 6-4" |
| These lines are indistinguishable in a black-and-white chart. |
| Page 80: | The word "class" is used for both anenometer accuracy rating and terrain class. |
| This is confusing. |
| Page 97: | "Maximun gust" (second occurrence) |
| Spelling: S/B "maximum". (Other occurrences are OK.) |
| Page 105: | "Table 6-9 |
| It appears to be missing the data for the NNW bin. |
| Page 107: | "underway |
| Missing space: S/B "under way". |
| Page 157: | "Wind farm details like desired size of wind farm in terms of megawatt and..." |
| Capitalization, usage: S/B "Megawatts output". |
| Page 170: | Turbine blades are compared to airplane wings. |
| Why not to propellors? |
| Page 198: | "The direction of the force is determined by the left-hand rule." |
| The left-hand rule is not defined. |
| Page 223: | "Overall, connecting Wind power to an existing grid..." |
| Capitalization: S/B "wind". |
| Page 232: | "Lower-frequency harmonics seen with thyristor-based power converters is lower frequency and higher amplitude..." |
| Number error: S/B "are lower frequency". (Also redundant phrasing.) |
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