Matching wind turbine generators with wind regime in Egypt

Electric Power Systems Research

Volumn 81, Issue 4, 2011, Pages 894-898

  Abul'Wafa, Ahmed R ^a  

^a AIN SHAMS UNIVERSITY   (Egypt)

Author keywords

Energy cost; Turbine performance index; Weibull function

Indexed keywords

CANDIDATE LOCATIONS; CAPACITY FACTORS; CAPITAL COSTS; ENERGY COST; ENERGY PRODUCTIONS; MINIMUM COST; NOVEL METHODS; OPTIMAL SPEED; PARAMETERIZED; PLANNING AND DEVELOPMENT; TURBINE PERFORMANCE; TURBINE PERFORMANCE INDEX; WEIBULL FUNCTIONS; WEIBULL PARAMETERS; WEIBULL PROBABILITY; WIND POWER STATIONS; WIND REGIME; WIND SPEED; WIND TURBINE GENERATORS;

CASCADES (FLUID MECHANICS); PROBABILITY DENSITY FUNCTION; RATING; SPEED; TURBOGENERATORS; WEIBULL DISTRIBUTION; WIND POWER; WIND TURBINES;

COSTS;

EID: 79551688840     PISSN: 03787796     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.epsr.2010.11.025     Document Type: Article

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