Small wind turbines with timber blades for developing countries: Materials choice, development, installation and experiences

Renewable Energy

Volumn 36, Issue 8, 2011, Pages 2128-2138

  Mishnaevsky, Leon ^a   Freere, Peter ^b   Sinha, Rakesh ^b   Acharya, Parash ^b   Shrestha, Rakesh ^c   Manandhar, Pushkar ^d  

^a TECHNICAL UNIVERSITY OF DENMARK   (Denmark)

^b Bhatti Danda   (Nepal)

^c UNIVERSITY OF FLENSBURG   (Germany)

^d Practical Action Nepal   (Nepal)

Author keywords

Coating; Materials testing; Renewable energy in developing countries; Wind turbines; Wooden blades

Indexed keywords

DECENTRALIZED ENERGY; LOW COSTS; OFF-GRIDS; OPTIMAL CHOICE; PRACTICAL EXPERIENCE; RENEWABLE ENERGY IN DEVELOPING COUNTRIES; SMALL WIND TURBINE; WOODEN BLADES;

COATINGS; DEVELOPING COUNTRIES; MATERIALS TESTING; MECHANICAL TESTING; TIMBER; WIND POWER; WIND TURBINES;

TURBOMACHINE BLADES;

COATING; COST-BENEFIT ANALYSIS; DESIGN; DEVELOPING WORLD; INSTALLATION; POWER GENERATION; RENEWABLE RESOURCE; WIND FARM; WIND POWER; WIND TURBINE; WIND VELOCITY;

NEPAL;

EID: 79952446798     PISSN: 09601481     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.renene.2011.01.034     Document Type: Article

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