Description
Book SynopsisThe development of offshore wind power has become a pressing energy issue, driven by the need to find new electrical power sources and to reduce the use of fossil fuels. Offshore wind farms can harness tremendous wind resources without annoying citizens and with a comparatively low environmental impact. They are thus becoming a central pillar of a carbon free energy system. However offshore turbines and wind farms are costly to install and maintain, making reliability and cost-effectiveness key issues. This work covers reliability of offshore wind farms as a whole, starting from weather and wind conditions, dealing with wind turbine technology, farm layout, monitoring, safety and maintenance. The thoroughly revised second edition additionally covers turbines of up to 10 MW, turbine design changes, turbine converters, HVDC converter stations and DC links, offshore sub-sea collector and export cables, and the structures supporting large offshore wind farms.
Offshore Wind Power is essential reading for scientists, engineers, technicians and advanced students interested or engaged in the design of wind turbines, drivetrain technology and power mechatronics, in academia and industry.
Table of Contents
- Chapter 1: Introduction to off-shore wind
- Chapter 2: Reliability theory relevant to off-shore wind
- Chapter 3: Weather, its influence on off-shore reliability
- Chapter 4: Practical off-shore wind farm reliability
- Chapter 5: Wind turbine configuration and reliability
- Chapter 6: Design and testing for wind farm availability
- Chapter 7: Early off-shore unreliability and availability
- Chapter 8: Off-shore wind farm layouts and grid connection
- Chapter 9: Monitoring for off-shore wind farms
- Chapter 10: Maintenance for off-shore wind farms
- Chapter 11: Production safety, training and qualification
- Chapter 12: Overall summary conclusions
- References
- Standards
- Appendix A: WMEP operators' report form
- Appendix B: Reliability data collection
- Appendix C: Commercial SCADA systems
- Appendix D: Commercial condition monitoring systems
- Appendix E: Reliabilities of key off-shore sub-assemblies
- Appendix F: Wind power historical timeline
