Aerodynamic design and economical evaluation of site specific small vertical axis wind turbines

D Saeidi, A Sedaghat, P Alamdari, AA Alemrajabi - Applied energy, 2013 - Elsevier
The growing demand for renewable energy with a sustainable and low-energy design is the
main topic in many countries. This could indeed influence in utilizing small wind turbines …

Modelado y simulación de un sistema conjunto de energía solar y eólica para analizar su dependencia de la red eléctrica

M Mikati, M Santos, C Armenta - Revista Iberoamericana de …, 2012 - riunet.upv.es
[ES] En este artículo se presenta un estudio de la transferencia de energía entre sistemas
híbridos de energía renovable y la red eléctrica, para cubrir ciertas demandas de potencia …

A case study on the calibration of the k–ω SST (shear stress transport) turbulence model for small scale wind turbines designed with cambered and symmetrical …

PAC Rocha, HHB Rocha, FOM Carneiro, MEV da Silva… - Energy, 2016 - Elsevier
This work presents a calibration study of the k–ω SST turbulence model for small scale wind
turbines. To accomplish this, two different sets of blades were designed, built, tested and …

Electric grid dependence on the configuration of a small-scale wind and solar power hybrid system

M Mikati, M Santos, C Armenta - Renewable energy, 2013 - Elsevier
Results are presented from the modeling of a small-scale distributed power system
containing power demands, photovoltaic arrays, small-scale wind turbines and an electric …

An adaptive yaw method of horizontal-axis tidal stream turbines for bidirectional energy capture

Y Dong, Y Yan, S Xu, X Zhang, X Zhang, J Chen, J Guo - Energy, 2023 - Elsevier
Tracking the flow direction is one of the effective ways to harvest more energy for a
horizontal-axis tidal stream turbine (HATST). This paper presents a novel HATST design that …

[PDF][PDF] The fuzzy-PID based-pitch angle controller for small-scale wind turbine

QV Ngo, Y Chai, TT Nguyen - International Journal of …, 2020 - pdfs.semanticscholar.org
This paper aims to design the pitch angle control based on proportional–integral–derivative
(PID) controller combined with fuzzy logic for smallscale wind turbine systems. In this …

Comparative fatigue life assessment of wind turbine blades operating with different regulation schemes

B Loza, J Pacheco-Chérrez, D Cárdenas, LI Minchala… - Applied Sciences, 2019 - mdpi.com
A comparative evaluation of the fatigue damage occurring in the blades of small wind
turbines, with different power regulation schemes, has been conducted for the first time …

Development and experimental verification of counter-rotating dual rotor/dual generator wind turbine: Generating, yawing and furling

W Cho, K Lee, I Choy, J Back - Renewable Energy, 2017 - Elsevier
This paper deals with the control techniques for counter-rotating dual rotor/dual generator
(CRDRDG) wind turbine and its experimental verifications of the performance in the field …

Transient analysis of variable-speed wind turbines at wind speed disturbances and a pitch control malfunction

R Melício, VMF Mendes, JPS Catalão - Applied Energy, 2011 - Elsevier
As wind power generation undergoes rapid growth, new technical challenges emerge:
dynamic stability and power quality. The influence of wind speed disturbances and a pitch …

Synergies of Wind Turbine control techniques

A Bertašienė, B Azzopardi - Renewable and Sustainable Energy Reviews, 2015 - Elsevier
During the next decades, the market for Small-Scale Wind Turbines (SSWT) is expected to
grow, due to a shift in micro-generation and current trends in distributed energy resources …