Evaluation of wind power production prospective and Weibull parameter estimation methods for Babaurband, Sindh Pakistan

Energy Conversion and Management

Volumn 78, Issue , 2014, Pages 956-967

  Khahro, Shahnawaz Farhan ^a   Tabbassum, Kavita ^b   Soomro, Amir Mahmood ^a,c   Dong, Lei ^a   Liao, Xiaozhong ^a  

^a BEIJING INSTITUTE OF TECHNOLOGY   (China)

^b Information Technology Center (ITC)   (Pakistan)

^c MEHRAN UNIVERSITY OF ENGINEERING AND TECHNOLOGY   (Pakistan)

Author keywords

Frequency distribution; Power density function; Weibull distribution; Wind energy; Wind rose

Indexed keywords

ELECTRIC POWER GENERATION; ENVIRONMENTAL IMPACT; GLOBAL WARMING; NUMERICAL METHODS; SUSTAINABLE DEVELOPMENT; WEIBULL DISTRIBUTION; WIND POWER; WIND TURBINES;

CONVENTIONAL ENERGY SOURCES; FREQUENCY DISTRIBUTIONS; GLOBAL WARMING AND CLIMATE CHANGES; POWER DENSITY FUNCTIONS; RENEWABLE ENERGY SOURCE; SCALE AND SHAPE PARAMETERS; WEIBULL PARAMETER ESTIMATION; WIND ROSE;

WIND EFFECTS;

EID: 84892965166     PISSN: 01968904     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.enconman.2013.06.062     Document Type: Article

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