Small Wind Turbines for Electricity and Irrigation Design and Construction Edited By Mario Alejandro Rosato
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About Of The Book:
A quarter of a century has already passed since the publication in Spain of
my first book, Diseño de Máquinas Eólicas de Pequeña Potencia. In those days, I
had already reached the firm belief that small wind turbines, together with
anaerobic digesters and thermal solar systems, are the most democratic
of renewable energies, because anybody can build a windmill, a digester,
or a thermal solar collector, even with scrap material, without depending
on sophisticated technologies and exotic materials. Among the said three
energy sources, small wind power installations provide mechanical work,
which—in thermodynamic terms—is the highest quality of energy. Small
wind power systems are then one of the three pillars for a sustainable soci-
ety, based on circular economy.
At the end of the 1980s, in spite of the Chernobyl disaster and the grow-
ing perception of the negative environmental impact of fossil fuels, many
people in the so-called industrialized societies still considered small stand-
alone energy systems as suitable only for remote rural areas, where stan-
dard financial analysis shows that it does not pay off to bring an electric
line. During the last decades, politicians, industrialists, and economists
in all countries have often criticized and even opposed small-scale initia-
tives for the energy independence of families or communities. The general
dogma of “scale economy” pushes in the direction of gigantic infrastruc-
tures that tend to perpetuate the linear business model, based on central-
ized generation (more or less monopolized), energy transmission (often
along huge distances), and passive, energy-dependent consumers. Society
has evolved, and a growing number of citizens became aware that modern
society needs to change its consumerist attitude; otherwise the planet will
not survive. Large sectors of the population now search for their energy
independence, based on renewable sources, even when traditional—
reductive—economic criteria seem to show that taking electricity and
gas from the grid is cheaper. In some countries, for instance, Spain, the
political class has virtually banned the installation of small stand-alone
energy systems by taxing and putting unnecessary bureaucratic burden
on them, in an attempt to protect the interests of big energy companies.
In the time elapsed between the publication of my first book and the pres-
ent, the population has grown from 5.5 billion to 7.5 billion souls.
Small wind power systems are then one of the three pillars for a sustainable society, based on circular economy. At the end of the 1980s, in spite of the Chernobyl disaster and the growing perception of the negative environmental impact of fossil fuels, many people in the so-called industrialized societies still considered small standalone energy systems as suitable only for remote rural areas, where standard financial analysis shows that it does not pay off to bring an electric line.
During the last decades, politicians, industrialists, and economists in all countries have often criticized and even opposed small-scale initiatives for the energy independence of families or communities. The general dogma of “scale economy” pushes in the direction of gigantic infrastructures that tend to perpetuate the linear business model, based on centralized generation (more or less monopolized), energy transmission (often along huge distances), and passive, energy-dependent consumers. Society has evolved, and a growing number of citizens became aware that modern society needs to change its consumerist attitude; otherwise the planet will not survive.
I had already come to the firm belief that small wind turbines, along with anaerobic digesters and solar thermal systems, are the most democratic renewable energies, because anyone can build a windmill, digester, or solar thermal collector, even with scrap materials. Without relying on advanced technologies and exotic materials.
Content Of The Book:
1. Small Wind Turbines: A Technology for Energy Independence and Sustainable Agriculture
2. General Theory of Wind-Driven Machines
3. Simplified Aerodynamic Theory for the Design of the Rotor’s Blades
4. Practical Design of Horizontal Axis Wind Turbines
5. Practical Design of Aerodynamic Action Vertical Axis Wind Turbines
6. Practical Design of Savonius Turbines and Derived Models
7. Engineering of the Support Structures for Wind Turbines
8. Probability Distribution of the Wind Speed and Preliminary Design of Wind Power Installations
9. Sizing Energy Storage Systems
10. Design of Wind Pumping Systems
11. Unconventional Wind-Driven Machines
12. Aerodynamic Characteristics of Blunt Bodies and Airfoils
Information Of The Book
Book Format : PDF
Language : English
Page :351
Size : 16 MB
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