Design considerations of a straight bladed darrieus rotor for river current turbines

IEEE International Symposium on Industrial Electronics

Volumn 3, Issue , 2006, Pages 1750-1755

  Khan, M J ^a   Iqbal, M T ^a   Quaicoe, J E ^a  

^a MEMORIAL UNIVERSITY OF NEWFOUNDLAND   (Canada)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

CURRENT TURBINES; DARRIEUS; DARRIEUS ROTORS; DESIGN CONSIDERATIONS; DESIGN SCENARIO; ELECTRICAL ENERGY; FLUID DYNAMIC ANALYSIS; INTERNATIONAL SYMPOSIUM; OPERATIONAL CONDITIONS; SYSTEMATIC DESIGNS;

DECISION MAKING; DYNAMIC ANALYSIS; ELECTRIC GENERATORS; ENGINES; FLUID DYNAMICS; FLUID MECHANICS; HYDRAULIC MACHINERY; HYDRAULIC MOTORS; INDUSTRIAL ELECTRONICS; PROBLEM SOLVING; RIVERS; TURBINES;

DESIGN;

EID: 53849095659     PISSN: None     EISSN: None     Source Type: Conference Proceeding    
DOI: 10.1109/ISIE.2006.295835     Document Type: Conference Paper

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