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Wind Energy
FOS 12-2 English
Raoul Tedjasukmana, Kai Raguse, Pavel Timokhine, Wilhelm Stein, Sven Staab
Table of Contents
• History
• Wind Energy System Components and
Installation & the Placement of Wind
Turbines
• Facts (Adv. and Disadv.), Statistics, Costs
History
• Evolution of the
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Windmill
Ancient Persian
Windmills
Traditional European
Windmill
The Modern
Windturbine
Wind Energy System Components
• Tower
• Rotor
• Wind Turbine
Tower
• Small Wind Towers:
– Height: 10 - 30 m
● Medium-size Towers:
– Height: 25 - 50 m
• Large-size Towers:
– Height: 50 - 110 m
Rotor
• Material:
– Composite Wood
– Fiberglass
• Blade Concepts:
– The Danish Three-Bladed
Concept
– Two-Bladed (Teetering)
Concept
– One-Bladed Concept
• Small Turbines
Wind Turbine
– Power: 50 – 60 kW
• Medium- size Turbines
– Power: 50 – 1500 kW
• Large-size Turbines
– Power: 2 – 3 MW
Wind Turbine Installation
Placement of Wind Turbines
• Offshore (Sea)
• Land
Offshore
(Sea)
Middelgrunden, Denmark
Land
Tehachapi Pass
Windforest/Windfarm in Mojave
Desert, California
Statistics
Facts
Advantages:
• Low cost of maintenance
• Small space of Land
• Useful power source in small villages
Disadvantages:
• Not suitable in every location (Lack of resource)
• Noisy
• Risk of Accident (Moving parts will eventually fall out)
• Animal Risk (Birds)
Wind Energy
Heinrich-von-Stephan School
FOS 12-2 English