Wind energy conversion with a variable-ratio gearbox: Design and analysis

Renewable Energy

Volumn 36, Issue 3, 2011, Pages 1075-1080

  Hall, John F ^a   Mecklenborg, Christine A ^a   Chen, Dongmei ^a   Pratap, Siddharth B ^a  

^a The University of Texas at Austin   (United States)

Author keywords

Distributed wind turbine systems; Partial load operation; Region 2 wind energy harvesting; Variable ratio gearboxs; Wind turbine power coefficient

Indexed keywords

DISTRIBUTED WIND TURBINES; GEARBOXS; PARTIAL LOAD; REGION 2 WIND ENERGY HARVESTING; WIND TURBINE POWER COEFFICIENT;

AUTOMOBILE ELECTRONIC EQUIPMENT; AUTOMOTIVE INDUSTRY; ENERGY CONVERSION; ENERGY HARVESTING; GEAR MANUFACTURE; SPEED; WIND TURBINES;

WIND POWER;

AUTOMOBILE INDUSTRY; COST-BENEFIT ANALYSIS; WIND POWER; WIND TURBINE; WIND VELOCITY;

EID: 77958192607     PISSN: 09601481     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.renene.2010.08.037     Document Type: Article

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