— This article presents the basic concepts of wind energy and deals with the physics and mechanics of operation. It describes the conversion of wind energy into rotation of turbine, and the critical parameters governing the efficiency of this conversion. After that it presents an overview of various parts and components of windmills. The connection to the electrical grid, the world status of wi...

The wind energy conversion systems when operate in weak grid or in isolated mode may cause power quality problems due to variation in wind speed and other circuit conditions. To improve the power quality of wind generation system a wind-diesel hybrid system is proposed in this paper. The power quality of the system is improved by controlling the excitation and input power of the synchronous gen...

Fossil Fuels are always considered as environmental pollutants. On the other hand, the political and economic situations highly affect the price of these fuels. Offshore wind and wave, as renewable energy sources, represent the better alternatives for electricity generation. Therefore, it is necessary that wind speeds effectively be estimated due to the absence of field measurements of the wind...

in this paper, optimal design of hybrid solar-wind- diesel energy system with battery storage for reliable load in arsoon village in ardabil is presented. the village has 35 households that mean daily energy consumption is estimated 63.4 kwh. in this design optimization is implemented, considering loss of power supply probability (lpsp) index for reliable load providing, with minimum total cons...

The recent upsurge is in the demand of hybrid energy systems which can be accomplished by the use of the Solar and Wind energy systems with Maximum Power Point Tracking technique to track maximum power for various values of irradiance. The implementation of boost converter is to enhance the incoming voltage from PV by maintaining the constant reference voltage for various values of Irradiance (...

The global electrical energy consumption is steadily rising and consequently there is a demand to increase the power generation capacity. A significant percentage of the required capacity increase can be based on renewable energy sources.The integration of Distributed Generations into grid has a great importance in improving system reliability. The power generation with renewable energy sources...

This study proposed a cost effective method of wind energy conversion system (WECS) incorporating permanent magnet generator (PMG) and single stage power converter. Axial flux PMG can generate rated voltage and frequency even at a lower speed and hence more suitable for direct drive WECS. To get desired voltage and frequency in continuously varying wind conditions, a new type of WECS with singl...

The contribution from the divergent part of the horizontal wind to the energy conversion between the vertical shear flow and the vertical mean flow has been computed using atmospheric data from the isobaric surfaces: 850, 700, 500, 300, and 200 mb. The new calculations supplement earlier computations giving the energy conversion based on an assumption that the horizontal winds are non-divergent...

Nuclear energy sources have been widely used in the past decades in order to power spacecraft subsystems. Nevertheless, their use has attracted controversy because of the risk of harmful material released into the atmosphere if an accident were to occur during the launch phase of the mission, leading to the general adoption of photovoltaic systems. As compared to solar cells, wind turbines have...