| WIND TURBINES: TYPES, ECONOMICS AND DEVELOPMENT Gerard Martin (editor) Jeremie Roux (editor) New York: Nova Science Publishers, April 2010 |
Rating: 5.0 High |
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| ISBN-13: 978-1-60741-849-8 | ||||
| ISBN-10: 1-60741-849-5 | 322pp. | HC/LF/FCI | $160.00 | |
| Page 3: | "...efforts are underway to make energy supplies more sustainable..." |
| Missing space: S/B "under way". |
| Page 4: | "The modularity and scalability of wind technology is one of its most useful attributes..." |
| Number error: S/B "are its". |
| Page 12: | Topic heading: "4.2 Darrieus Lift-Based Vawt" |
| Capitalization: S/B "VAWT". |
| Page 14: | "Savonius turbines have exhibited efficiencies as high as 37%..." |
| What of the theoretical limit of 0.2 on drag-based wind turbines? |
| Page 17: | "The power curve for the PacWind turbine, based on CFD simulation data is plotted in the results section of this chapter." |
| Missing comma: S/B "data, is". |
| Page 20: | Equation (2): "D = 0.5Cd ρ (U-Ωr)2A where V is the wind speed." |
| "V" does not appear in Equation 2. The text might mean "U". |
| Page 22: | "Bezt number..." (three places) |
| S/B "Betz". |
| Page 24: | "...using the disc actuator model and Bezt limit theory." |
| S/B "Betz". |
| Page 24: | "For a particular configuration of the Zephyr VAWT, these parameters are" |
| The page ends here, and on the top of page 25, only the parameter Cp is given. |
| Page 25: | Figure 17: same tip speed ratio for Darrieus VAWT and 3-blade HAWT." |
| It seems unlikely the TSRs would be identical. |
| Page 26: | Figures 18 and 19 |
| Are they correct? |
| Page 28: | "Substituting equations (21) and (22) into (20)..." |
| How does (22) go into (20)? There's no delta (δ) in (20). |
| Page 54: | "The rotor power output is about 20% greater for the 9-blade Zephyr configuration that for the base 5-blade rotor design, under the same operating conditions." |
| Based on the graphs presented, how can this be justified? Figure 41? |
| Page 65: | Topic heading: Offshore Wing Energy: The Driver for Turbine Change" |
| S/B "Wind". |
| Page 201: | Topic heading: Wemu Design" |
| Capitalization: S/B "WEMU". |
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