Learning Outcomes: | ||
• Understand the feature, characteristics and types of wind turbine. | ||
• Select the suitable wind turbine. | ||
• Design and control wind farm. | ||
Course contents: | ||
• Introduction to wind energy. | ||
• Wind turbine characteristics and resources. | ||
• Aerodynamics of wind turbines. | ||
• Wind turbine mechanics and dynamics. | ||
• Wind turbine generators. | ||
• Wind turbine installation. | ||
• Trends in control system design of wind turbine. | ||
• Wind turbine design calculations. | ||
• Environmental aspects. | ||
• Wind turbine economics. |