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    • Intelligent Fault Detection and Diagnosis Techniques for Monitoring Wind and Solar Systems

      • 1st Edition
      • October 1, 2025
      • Majdi Mansouri + 5 more
      • English
      • Paperback
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      Intelligent Fault Detection and Diagnosis Techniques for Monitoring Wind and Solar Energy Systems provides innovative solutions for fault detection and diagnosis in renewable energy systems. By leveraging advanced AI-based techniques such as deep learning, multiscale representation, and statistical analysis, this book aims to enhance system reliability, performance, and cost-efficiency. Readers will gain insights into the fundamentals of FDD processes tailored for photovoltaic and wind turbine operations. The book delves into data preprocessing techniques, feature extraction and selection methods, and optimization of deep learning models.It also includes case studies and explores future directions for AI and machine learning in renewable energy, making it valuable for researchers, engineers, and policy makers.

    • Wind Energy Systems

      • 1st Edition
      • September 1, 2025
      • Chun Wei + 3 more
      • English
      • Paperback
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      Wind Energy Systems: Control, Optimization, and Market Strategies, the latest volume in the Elsevier Wind Energy Engineering series, presents in-depth coverage of the technical aspects of controlling and optimizing wind energy resources, including advanced control strategies to enhance anti-disturbance and stable operation. The book begins by introducing wind energy resources in power systems and provides an overview of control, optimization methods, and market strategies. This is followed by individual chapters that detail advanced methods and approaches, moving from traditional centralized electricity grids characterized by source-grid-load systems to systems that integrate storage of energy, thus source-grid-load-sto... electricity grids.Users will find cutting-edge knowledge supported by case studies, practical applications, and code. This latest volume will be of interest to those involved in the planning, design, operation, and maintenance of wind energy systems, including researchers, students, faculty, engineers, industry practitioners, and R&D professionals.

    • Safety and Reliability of Offshore Renewable Energies

      • 1st Edition
      • December 1, 2025
      • Rouzbeh Abbassi + 3 more
      • English
      • Paperback
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      Safety and Reliability of Offshore Renewable Energies delves into the crucial aspects of risk and reliability, ensuring asset durability and long-term performance while fostering safe operations in the challenging offshore renewable energy systems context. The book starts with an overview of offshore renewable energy systems, followed by a detailed examination of regulatory standards for safety and reliability, environmental impacts, risk assessment and management, human factors, safety culture, infrastructure optimization, asset management, maintenance, and decommissioning. The book further explores reliability and safety in specific areas such as wind farms, offshore hydrogen, wave and tidal energy, and floating PV systems.It also addresses safety and risk in multi-purpose and co-located offshore facilities, bridging the gap between industry and academia. This comprehensive resource is invaluable for researchers, students, engineers, consultants, industry professionals, and policy makers involved in offshore renewable energy.

    • Multiphysics of Wind Turbines in Extreme Loading Conditions

      • 1st Edition
      • January 18, 2024
      • Arash Soleiman Fallah + 2 more
      • English
      • Paperback
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      Multiphysics of Wind Turbines in Extreme Loading Conditions addresses the extreme transient loading of wind turbines through a multiphysics modeling approach, notably by considering the dynamic effects and the nonlinearities of the physics involved in such situations. The book forms the basis for understanding multiphysic numerical simulations conducted on onshore and offshore wind turbines and subjected to extreme loading conditions, including storms, earthquakes, blasts, impacts, and tsunamis. The multiphysics approaches used in this book are explained in each chapter, with algorithms then turned into numerical codes to attain a realistic picture of the dynamic response in each scenario. With numerical methods and loading data explained, the complexity of potential problems encountered when extreme dynamic loads are discussed, along with loading types and their effects. The book fills a specific niche in wind power, namely extreme transient loading of wind turbine, offering information and industrial practices as wind energy makes it useful to practice engineers, designers, undergraduate and graduate students.

    • Solar Chimney Power Plants

      • 1st Edition
      • November 20, 2024
      • Erdem Cuce + 1 more
      • English
      • Paperback
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      Solar Chimney Power Plants: From Theory to Practice offers detailed information in one place, covering working principles, efficiency, performance-enhancin... methods, experimental and theoretical studies, current application examples, techno-economic analysis, and artificial intelligence, providing the reader with a thorough and up-to-date understanding of solar chimney power plants. The book covers basic theory and dynamics of solar chimney power plants, systematic coverage of the various parameters affecting performance, assessment by experimental studies, mathematical and theoretical models, the use of computer simulations and computation fluid dynamics, and innovative applications and hybrid approaches.Finally, techno-economic analysis and the role of artificial intelligence are presented. This is an ideal resource for all those with an interest in solar chimney plants and energy conversion technologies, including graduate students, researchers, academics, faculty, engineers, R&D, scientists, policymakers and professionals in the renewable energy sector.

    • Advances in Wind Turbine Blade Design and Materials

      • 2nd Edition
      • January 14, 2023
      • Povl Brondsted + 2 more
      • English
      • Paperback
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      Advances in Wind Turbine Blade Design and Materials, Second Edition, builds on the thorough review of the design and functionality of wind turbine rotor blades and the requirements and challenges for composite materials used in both current and future designs of wind turbine blades.

    • Wind Turbine Icing Physics and Anti-/De-Icing Technology

      • 1st Edition
      • August 30, 2022
      • Hui Hu + 2 more
      • English
      • Paperback
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      Wind Turbine Icing Physics and Anti-/De-Icing Technology gives a comprehensive update of research on the underlying physics pertinent to wind turbine icing and the development of various effective and robust anti-/de-icing technology for wind turbine icing mitigation. The book introduces the most recent research results derived from both laboratory studies and field experiments. Specifically, the research results based on field measurement campaigns to quantify the characteristics of the ice structures accreted over the blades surfaces of utility-scale wind turbines by using a Supervisory Control and Data Acquisition (SCADA) system and an Unmanned-Aerial-Vehi... (UAV) equipped with a high-resolution digital camera are also introduced. In addition, comprehensive lab experimental studies are explored, along with a suite of advanced flow diagnostic techniques, a detailed overview of the improvements, and the advantages and disadvantages of state-of-the-art ice mitigation strategies. This new addition to the Wind Energy Engineering series will be useful to all researchers and industry professionals who address icing issues through testing, research and industrial innovation.

    • Fundamentals of Wind Farm Aerodynamic Layout Design

      • 1st Edition
      • January 20, 2022
      • Farschad Torabi
      • English
      • Paperback
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      Fundamentals of Wind Farm Aerodynamic Layout Design, Volume Four provides readers with effective wind farm design and layout guidance through algorithm optimization, going beyond other references and general approaches in literature. Focusing on interactions of wake models, designers can combine numerical schemes presented in this book which also considers wake models’ effects and problems on layout optimization in order to simulate and enhance wind farm designs. Covering the aerodynamic modeling and simulation of wind farms, the book's authors include experimental tests supporting modeling simulations and tutorials on the simulation of wind turbines. In addition, the book includes a CFD technique designed to be more computationally efficient than currently available techniques, making this book ideal for industrial engineers in the wind industry who need to produce an accurate simulation within limited timeframes.

    • Advances in Clean Energy Technologies

      • 1st Edition
      • September 8, 2020
      • Abul Kalam Azad
      • English
      • Paperback
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      Advances in Clean Energy Technologies presents the latest advanced approaches toward a cleaner and more sustainable energy environment. Editor Kalam Azad and his team of expert contributors focus on recent developments in the field of clean energy technologies, sustainable zero emission resources, energy efficiency and environmental sustainability, as well as clean energy policy and markets. This well-rounded reference includes an authoritative view on control and storage solutions specific to medium and large-scale industries, advanced approaches to modeling, and experimental investigations on clean energy technologies. Those working in and researching clean energy and sustainability will obtain detailed understanding of a variety of zero emission energy production and conversion approaches, as well as important socio-economic and environmental considerations that can be applied to their own unique power generation settings.

    • Supervised Machine Learning in Wind Forecasting and Ramp Event Prediction

      • 1st Edition
      • January 21, 2020
      • Harsh S. Dhiman + 2 more
      • English
      • Paperback
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      Supervised Machine Learning in Wind Forecasting and Ramp Event Prediction provides an up-to- date overview on the broad area of wind generation and forecasting, with a focus on the role and need of Machine Learning in this emerging field of knowledge. Various regression models and signal decomposition techniques are presented and analyzed, including least-square, twin support and random forest regression, all with supervised Machine Learning. The specific topics of ramp event prediction and wake interactions are addressed in this book, along with forecasted performance. Wind speed forecasting has become an essential component to ensure power system security, reliability and safe operation, making this reference useful for all researchers and professionals researching renewable energy, wind energy forecasting and generation.