Modeling and investigation of the wind resource in the gulf of Tunis, Tunisia

Renewable and Sustainable Energy Reviews

Volumn 16, Issue 8, 2012, Pages 5466-5478

  El Alimi, Souheil ^a   Maatallah, Taher ^a   Dahmouni, Anouar Wajdi ^b   Ben Nasrallah, Sassi ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF MONASTIR   (Tunisia)

^b RESEARCH AND TECHNOLOGY CENTER OF ENERGY   (Tunisia)

Author keywords

Tunis; Weibull distribution; Wind power density; Wind roses; Wind speed

Indexed keywords

ATMOSPHERIC POLLUTION; ECONOMICAL FEASIBILITY; GOODNESS-OF-FIT TEST; HOURLY MEAN WIND SPEED; POWER POTENTIAL; TIME STEP; TUNIS; TUNISIA; WEATHER STATIONS; WEIBULL PARAMETERS; WIND CHARACTERISTICS; WIND DIRECTIONS; WIND ENERGY CONVERSION SYSTEM; WIND POTENTIAL; WIND POWER DENSITY; WIND RESOURCES; WIND SPEED;

DEVELOPING COUNTRIES; ELECTRIC POWER GENERATION; FOSSIL FUELS; WEIBULL DISTRIBUTION; WIND EFFECTS;

WIND POWER;

EID: 84864348045     PISSN: 13640321     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.rser.2012.05.004     Document Type: Review

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