Wind Turbine Operations, Maintenance, Diagnosis, and Repair

Wind Turbine Operations, Maintenance, Diagnosis, and Repair

Author: David Rivkin

Publisher: Jones & Bartlett Publishers

Published: 2013

Total Pages: 226

ISBN-13: 1449624553

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Part of the Art and Science of Wind Power series!Wind Turbine Operations, Maintenance, Diagnostics, and Repair is a cutting-edge text positioned at the forefront of the booming alternative energy industry. It provides students with the knowledge required to operate, maintain, troubleshoot, and repair wind-turbine electro-mechanical systems. A systems-based perspective offers students the resources to develop creative solutions to challenges as well as relationship-based critical thinking skills. In addition to extensive technical information, the text's innovative content includes industry standards and requirements and provides an overview of issues related to working in the field. Each chapter focuses on crucial concepts and skills, and includes real-life scenarios that address extant and developing issues in the wind energy industry.About the seriesAccording to estimates from the American Wind Energy Association, approximately 85,000 Americans are employed in the rapidly expanding wind energy industry. The Art and Science of Wind Power series was developed to address a critical gap in educational resources directed toward the development of skilled workers in this industry. Each title uses a systems-based perspective to provide students with the resources to develop creative solutions to challenges as well as systems-based critical thinking skills. No other series as comprehensively addresses key issues for novice and expert learners alike.


A Field Guide to American Windmills

A Field Guide to American Windmills

Author: T. Lindsay Baker

Publisher: University of Oklahoma Press

Published: 1985-01-01

Total Pages: 542

ISBN-13: 9780806119014

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Traces the history of the use of windmills in the United States and surveys the various types of American windmills


Windmills

Windmills

Author: Sally Taylor

Publisher: Todtri Productions

Published: 1999

Total Pages: 88

ISBN-13: 9781577171584

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70 illustrations. This authoritatiively written and lavishly illustrated book is a tribute to the traditional windmill, once an integral part of the working environment but nowadays too often neglected and considered an industrial and rural anachronism. Before steam power, windmills, along with waterwheels, were the only means available for drawing water and powering machinery. Their tall towers and billowing sails were a picturesque part of the European landscape, and many remain today to remind us of the past. Here, their full history and the story of their survival is presented, along with 70 full-color photographs and archival illustrations.


Environmental Impacts of Wind-Energy Projects

Environmental Impacts of Wind-Energy Projects

Author: National Research Council

Publisher: National Academies Press

Published: 2007-09-27

Total Pages: 395

ISBN-13: 0309108349

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The generation of electricity by wind energy has the potential to reduce environmental impacts caused by the use of fossil fuels. Although the use of wind energy to generate electricity is increasing rapidly in the United States, government guidance to help communities and developers evaluate and plan proposed wind-energy projects is lacking. Environmental Impacts of Wind-Energy Projects offers an analysis of the environmental benefits and drawbacks of wind energy, along with an evaluation guide to aid decision-making about projects. It includes a case study of the mid-Atlantic highlands, a mountainous area that spans parts of West Virginia, Virginia, Maryland, and Pennsylvania. This book will inform policy makers at the federal, state, and local levels.


Boyd's Windmill Reborn

Boyd's Windmill Reborn

Author: Charles C. Roberts, Jr.

Publisher:

Published: 2005-01-01

Total Pages: 37

ISBN-13: 9780971505049

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A pictorial review of the restoration of the Boyd's Windmill in Middletown Rhode Island which took place between 1995 and 1997. Many high resolution photographs are presented along with diagrams of how the windmill was constructed and how it worked.