An investigation on wind energy potential and small scale wind turbine performance at Incek region - Ankara, Turkey

Energy Conversion and Management

Volumn 103, Issue , 2015, Pages 910-923

  Bilir, Levent ^a   Imir, Mehmet ^a   Devrim, YIlser ^a   Albostan, Ayhan ^a  

^a ATILIM UNIVERSITY   (Turkey)

Author keywords

Small scale wind turbine; Weibull parameters; Wind energy; Wind speed characterization

Indexed keywords

COAL DEPOSITS; ENERGY RESOURCES; MEAN SQUARE ERROR; NATURAL GAS DEPOSITS; PARAMETER ESTIMATION; RENEWABLE ENERGY RESOURCES; SPEED; WEIBULL DISTRIBUTION; WIND; WIND POWER;

ALTERNATIVE ENERGY RESOURCES; ENVIRONMENTAL POLLUTION PROBLEM; LARGE SCALE WIND TURBINES; MAXIMUM POWER DENSITY; ROOT MEAN SQUARE ERRORS; SMALL SCALE WIND TURBINES; WEIBULL PARAMETERS; WIND SPEED;

WIND TURBINES;

EID: 84937907703     PISSN: 01968904     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.enconman.2015.07.017     Document Type: Article

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