Air turbines

Comprehensive Renewable Energy

Volumn 8, Issue , 2012, Pages 111-149

  Falcao A F O ^a   Gato, L M C ^a  

^a INSTITUTO SUPERIOR TÉCNICO   (Portugal)

Author keywords

Air turbine; Impulse turbine; Oscillating water column; Self rectifying turbine; Wave energy; Wells turbine

Indexed keywords

EID: 84957759167     PISSN: None     EISSN: None     Source Type: Book    
DOI: 10.1016/B978-0-08-087872-0.00805-2     Document Type: Chapter

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