Investigation of wind characteristics and wind power potential in El-Kef region, Tunisia

International Multi-Conference on Systems, Signals and Devices, SSD'11 - Summary Proceedings

Volumn , Issue , 2011, Pages

  Abbes, Mohamed ^a   Belhadj, Jamel ^a,b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF TUNIS EL MANAR   (Tunisia)

^b UNIVERSITY OF TUNIS   (Tunisia)

Author keywords

Turbulence intensity; Weibull distribution; Wind energy yield; Wind potential; Wind shear coefficient

Indexed keywords

ENERGY YIELDS; HUB HEIGHT; LOW WIND SPEED; POWER POTENTIAL; POWER PRODUCTION; TUNISIA; TURBULENCE INTENSITY; WEIBULL PROBABILITY; WIND CHARACTERISTICS; WIND ENERGY YIELD; WIND FARM; WIND POTENTIAL; WIND POWER DENSITY; WIND SHEAR COEFFICIENT; WIND SHEAR COEFFICIENTS; WIND SPEED DISTRIBUTION; WIND SPEED MEASUREMENT;

CEMENTS; ELECTRIC UTILITIES; PROBABILITY DENSITY FUNCTION; TURBULENCE; WIND EFFECTS; WIND POWER;

WEIBULL DISTRIBUTION;

EID: 79957893890     PISSN: None     EISSN: None     Source Type: Conference Proceeding    
DOI: 10.1109/SSD.2011.5767372     Document Type: Conference Paper

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