Tradeoff analysis of energy harvesting and noise emission for distributed wind turbines

Sustainable Energy Technologies and Assessments

Volumn 10, Issue , 2015, Pages 12-21

  Shaltout, Mohamed L ^a   Yan, Zeyu ^a   Palejiya, Dushyant ^a   Chen, Dongmei ^a  

^a The University of Texas at Austin   (United States)

Author keywords

Human exposure to wind turbine noise; Noise emission; Optimal control; Wind turbines

Indexed keywords

ACOUSTIC EMISSIONS; ELECTRIC POWER GENERATION; ELECTRIC POWER TRANSMISSION NETWORKS; ELECTRIC UTILITIES; ENERGY HARVESTING; ENVIRONMENTAL IMPACT; RENEWABLE ENERGY RESOURCES; TURBOMACHINE BLADES; WIND POWER;

DISTRIBUTED WIND TURBINES; ELECTROMAGNETIC TORQUES; ENVIRONMENTAL CHALLENGES; NOISE EMISSIONS; OPTIMAL CONTROLS; OPTIMAL OPERATING CONDITIONS; WIND POWER INSTALLATIONS; WIND TURBINE NOISE;

WIND TURBINES;

CONTROL SYSTEM; NOISE; OPTIMIZATION; POWER GENERATION; TRADE-OFF; WIND FARM; WIND TURBINE;

EID: 84922769171     PISSN: 22131388     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.seta.2015.01.005     Document Type: Article

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