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Book SynopsisWAVE AND CURRENT POWER GENERATION Written by two well-known and respected engineers, this exciting new volume is the most up-to-date and comprehensive text on power generation from waves and water currents available today to engineers, scientists, and students, also covering the latest advances in wind power generation. As the world turns further and further away from fossil fuel energy sources, unconventional and renewable sources of energy, such as power generation from water sources and wind energy, are becoming more and more important. Hydropower has been around for decades, but this book suggests new methods that are more cost-effective and less intrusive to the environment for creating power sources from rivers, the tides, and other sources of water. Written by two experts in the field, it also covers wind energy and how it can be more efficiently harnessed. This groundbreaking new volume deals with modern problems of using wind energy, namely, jet currents in the atmosphere a
Table of ContentsPreface vii
1 Renewable Energy of the World 1
2 Conversion of the Energy of Currents 59
3 Collinear Units and Their Modifications 95
4 Orthogonal Power Units 159
4.1 High Speed Orthogonal Turbines in the Infinite Flow 159
4.2 Efficiency Turbine with Different Parameters 163
4.3 One and Two Blades Turbines 173
4.4 Double-Acting Turbine 184
4.5 Many Blades Turbines with Large Diameter and Control Position of Blades 187
4.6 General 192
References 193
5 Turbines with Transverse Turbulent Energy Transfer 195
5.1 Introduction 195
5.2 Efficiency of Ordinal VAWT – Brake of Flow Within the Aggregate 201
5.3 New Design with Turbulent Vertical Mixing of Streams 202
5.4 Conclusion 215
References 215
6 Damless Hydropower and Tidal Power Plants 217
7 Tidal Power as Basis for Hydrogen Energetic 231
Conclusion 254
References 255
8 High Jet Power Plant 257
References 281
9 Power Unit with a Controlled Thrust Vector – The Base for a Vehicle of Absolute Cross-Country Capability 283
Conclusion 290
References 290
Conclusion General 290
10 High Altitude Turbine (HAT): The Future of Wind Energy 293
Harnessing the Wind Energy 293
Basic Architecture of HAT 295
Air Borne Module (ABM) 296
Tether 298
The Conversion Unit 300
Ground-Based Power Generation 300
On-Board Power Generation 302
Dirigible-Based Rotors (DBR) 303
The Launcher and Landing System 304
Balance-of-Station 304
Comparison of HAT with Conventional Wind Turbine (CWT) 304
Multidimensional Scope of HAT 306
Probable Drawbacks 307
Commercial Endeavors 308
Case Study 309
References 315
Application 1 Development and Adaptation of a Mathematical Model for a Two-Dimensional Calculation of the Flow Around an NACA0021 Airfoil Moving Along a Circular Track 319
Index 355
