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Small-scale wind turbines
Small-scale wind turbines

This chapter deals with micro and small wind turbines and focuses on small wind turbines in the United Kingdom over the past decade (2005-15), which represents a period of "boom and bust" for building mounted micro-wind turbines in particular. The sector was trying to break out from yacht battery charging to the emerging grid connected micro-generation sector during this period. Micro-wind turbines are typically defined as having a rated power up to 1.5. kWp (where p refers to peak power) and their most widely used application is in yachts for battery charging. Small wind turbines are rated between 1.5 and 100. kWp and are generally free standing, pole or tower mounted turbines. Small wind turbines at the lower end of this range are sometimes used in off-grid systems, but turbines above 20. kWp are almost always grid connected. The majority of micro and small wind turbines are horizontal axis three blade designs.

Micro-wind turbine, Pole mounted turbines, Rural building mounted turbine, Small-scale turbine, Suburb building mounted turbine, Trial observations, Urban building mounted turbine
389-418
Elsevier Inc.
James, Patrick A.B.
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Bahaj, Abu Bakr S.
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James, Patrick A.B.
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James, Patrick A.B. and Bahaj, Abu Bakr S. (2017) Small-scale wind turbines. In, Wind Energy Engineering: A Handbook for Onshore and Offshore Wind Turbines. Elsevier Inc., pp. 389-418. (doi:10.1016/B978-0-12-809451-8.00019-9).

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This chapter deals with micro and small wind turbines and focuses on small wind turbines in the United Kingdom over the past decade (2005-15), which represents a period of "boom and bust" for building mounted micro-wind turbines in particular. The sector was trying to break out from yacht battery charging to the emerging grid connected micro-generation sector during this period. Micro-wind turbines are typically defined as having a rated power up to 1.5. kWp (where p refers to peak power) and their most widely used application is in yachts for battery charging. Small wind turbines are rated between 1.5 and 100. kWp and are generally free standing, pole or tower mounted turbines. Small wind turbines at the lower end of this range are sometimes used in off-grid systems, but turbines above 20. kWp are almost always grid connected. The majority of micro and small wind turbines are horizontal axis three blade designs.

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Published date: 16 May 2017
Additional Information: Publisher Copyright: © 2017 Elsevier Inc. All rights reserved. Copyright: Copyright 2018 Elsevier B.V., All rights reserved.
Keywords: Micro-wind turbine, Pole mounted turbines, Rural building mounted turbine, Small-scale turbine, Suburb building mounted turbine, Trial observations, Urban building mounted turbine

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Local EPrints ID: 449879
URI: http://eprints.soton.ac.uk/id/eprint/449879
PURE UUID: 69754f85-0105-4b9b-9681-aba0d61dc537
ORCID for Patrick A.B. James: ORCID iD orcid.org/0000-0002-2694-7054
ORCID for Abu Bakr S. Bahaj: ORCID iD orcid.org/0000-0002-0043-6045

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Date deposited: 23 Jun 2021 16:31
Last modified: 06 Jun 2024 01:34

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