Wind-Diesel Systems
A Guide to the Technology and its Implementation

This book is a state-of-the-art description of wind-diesel technology.

Ray Hunter (Edited by), George Elliot (Edited by)

9780521434409, Cambridge University Press

Hardback, published 3 March 1994

264 pages, 51 b/w illus. 28 tables
23.4 x 15.6 x 1.6 cm, 0.55 kg

This book provides for the first time in a single volume the collective knowledge of many leading researchers on state-of-the-art wind-diesel technology. It contains the results and advice of nineteen experts from ten different countries, and has been carefully edited to provide a coherent reference volume. This book is the result of a five-year study by a group of experts working on the development of wind-diesel technology under the auspices of the International Energy Agency. The formal, technical aims of this project were as follows: to define cost-effective models and techniques for obtaining wind and load data necessary for planning; to specify decentralised wind-energy conversion system installations; to apply and further develop models suitable for analysing the performance of wind-diesel systems; and to obtain a sound analytical basis for planning and designing wind-diesel systems.

How to use this book
1. Wind-diesel system options
2. Matching the wind-diesel system to the community
3. Assessing the wind resource
4. Designing a system
5. Wind-diesel case studies
6. Modelling techniques and model validation
7. Installing and monitoring of wind-diesel systems
8. Assessing the economics
Index.

Subject Areas: Mechanical engineering [TGB]