Sustainability has gained tremendous importance and has been an important issue both for policy makers and practitioners. Realizing that the resources on the earth are limited, renewable energy alternatives have flourished and started to replace the conventional energy alternatives. Energy planning using different energy alternatives, for the long term becomes a vital decision. In this study, f...

Wind turbine power curves are calibrated by turbine manufacturers under requirements stipulated by the International Electrotechnical Commission to provide a functional mapping between the mean wind speed v and the mean turbine power output P. Wind plant operators employ these power curves to estimate or forecast wind power generation under given wind conditions. However, it is general knowledg...

The renewable energy sources have increased significantly due to environmental issues and fossil fuels elevated cost. Integration of renewable energy sources to utility grid depends on the scale of power generation. Large scale power generations are connected to transmission systems where as small scale distributed power generation is connected to distribution systems. There are certain challen...

Wind turbine blade is the key component of wind power system. Curing is one of the important processes in its production of large-scale composite wind turbine blade. Mold heating system of circulating water affects the quality of resin curing and the productive efficiency of turbine blade directly. The heat transfer model of heating system for 1.2 MW wind turbine blade is built, and influencing...

erosion is considered as a main problem for the loss of arable land around the world. as the world arable land is reaching its limit, marginal areas, such as those prone to wind erosion, have gained importance for agricultural use. a simple and effective way of restoring wind eroded soils is addition of organic materials. sewage sludge can be an effective way to solve this problem. the effect o...

This paper describes a method to develop robust flight control systems for UAVs. It was difficult to develop flight control systems, because the helicopter dynamics is nonlinear. Moreover the flight environment is not fixed because of the atmospheric changes, such as the wind. The wind affects the attitude or velocities of the UAV, but the wind speed or direction is hard to predict, so the wind...

Wind power is one of the optimistic sources of energy generation among all the renewable energy sources. Hence for exploiting wind energy sources it must be connected to electric grid. Wind power inculation into grid affects power quality because of its fluctuating nature. This paper recommends a control scheme based on instantaneous SRF (Synchronous Reference Frame) theory for compensating the...

Despite the potentially strong effect of wind on bird orientation, our understanding of how wind drift affects migrating birds is still very limited. Using data from satellite-based radio telemetry, we analysed the effect of changing winds on the variation of the track direction of individual birds. We studied adults and juveniles of two raptor species, osprey Pandion haliaetus and honey buzzar...