Download or read book Small Wind Turbines for Electricity and Irrigation written by Mario Alejandro Rosato and published by CRC Press. This book was released on 2018-06-27 with total page 327 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This practical book deals with the technology of small-power wind turbines as opposed to widely diffused industrial wind turbines and wind farms. It covers the most common wind turbine technologies in the small power segment: horizontal axis both for electrical generation and water pumping, vertical axis of the Darrieus type, and vertical axis of the Savonius type. With each chapter following the same didactic scheme—a theoretical explanation and practical examples showing calculation procedures—it allows anybody with basic technical knowledge to design and build a small wind turbine for any site. A set of simple spreadsheets is available for download, each providing further examples of how to solve specific design problems and allowing the reader to play with changing parameters and see what-if. This simple trial-and-error learning process allows beginners to develop the feeling of the orders of magnitude involved in the design of a small wind power system, its potential advantages on other alternative solutions, and its limitations under some special circumstances.
Download or read book Solar and Wind powered Irrigation Systems written by Robert Vaughn Enochian and published by . This book was released on 1982 with total page 36 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book Small Wind Turbines for Electricity and Irrigation written by Mario Alejandro Rosato and published by CRC Press. This book was released on 2018-06-27 with total page 340 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This practical book deals with the technology of small-power wind turbines as opposed to widely diffused industrial wind turbines and wind farms. It covers the most common wind turbine technologies in the small power segment: horizontal axis both for electrical generation and water pumping, vertical axis of the Darrieus type, and vertical axis of the Savonius type. With each chapter following the same didactic scheme—a theoretical explanation and practical examples showing calculation procedures—it allows anybody with basic technical knowledge to design and build a small wind turbine for any site. A set of simple spreadsheets is available for download, each providing further examples of how to solve specific design problems and allowing the reader to play with changing parameters and see what-if. This simple trial-and-error learning process allows beginners to develop the feeling of the orders of magnitude involved in the design of a small wind power system, its potential advantages on other alternative solutions, and its limitations under some special circumstances.
Download or read book Application of Wind Energy to Great Plains Irrigation Pumping written by and published by . This book was released on 1980 with total page 32 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book Wind Energy for Irrigation Pumping written by Robert G. Curley and published by . This book was released on 1985 with total page 120 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book Wind Energy for Irrigation written by and published by . This book was released on 1982 with total page 92 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book The Use of Windmills in Irrigation in the Semiarid West written by Paul Edwin Fuller and published by . This book was released on 1917 with total page 40 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book Wind Energy for Low Head Irrigation written by John L. Wiersma and published by . This book was released on 1983 with total page 42 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book Solar and Wind powered Irrigation Systems written by Robert Vaughn Enochian and published by . This book was released on 1982 with total page 36 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book Economic Analysis of Wind Energy Irrigation Pumping written by Robert R. Lansford and published by . This book was released on 1979 with total page 138 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: With increasing energy prices, the profitability and productivity of irrigated agriculture is become adversely affected, both for the farmer and for the economy as a whole. In areas of the country where natural wind power is substantial during the irrigation season, this renewable resource has the potential of providing an economically feasible alternative energy input for irrigation pumping. However, there is substantial uncertainty as to both the likely future cost of wind-energy equipment and future costs of conventional energy inputs. The objective of the proposed research is to ascertain the economic feasibility of wind-powered irrigation pumping. The proposed research will estimate the number of economically feasible users of alternative sized wind turbines for irrigation pumping based on alternative combinations of wind energy equipment costs and costs of conventional energy inputs. This "economic feasibility" will be defined both from the perspective of the individual irrigator (potential wind-energy investor) and that of the macroeconomy as a whole. This means that the proposed research will conduct both a breakeven analysis and a benefit-cost analysis of the economic feasibility of wind-powered irrigation pumping. The number of economically feasible wind-powered pumping plants will be calculated as a function of average wind speed during the irrigation season, horsepower of present pumping plant, length of irrigation season, investment cost of the per kw, and cost of conventional energy inputs in dollars per MBtu. It is anticipated that wind-turbine irrigation pumping, depending on design factors, will be come economically feasible first in those areas where natural gas and diesel fuel are not available, electricity is expensive and irrigation season power requirements coincide with peak-load requirements of the utilities, and average wind speed during the irrigation season is consistently high.
Download or read book Economics of Wind Energy for Irrigation Pumping written by Robert R. Lansford and published by . This book was released on 1981 with total page 80 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book Geothermal Wind and Solar Energy Applications in Agriculture and Aquaculture written by Jochen Bundschuh and published by CRC Press. This book was released on 2017-08-02 with total page 522 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The agri-food chain consumes about one third of the world’s energy production with about 12% of it for crop production and nearly 80% for processing, distribution, retail, preparation and cooking. The agri-food chain also accounts for 80-90% of total global freshwater use where 70% alone is for irrigation. Additionally, on a global scale, freshwater production consumes nearly 15% of the entire energy production. It can therefore be argued that making agriculture and the agri-food supply chain independent from fossil fuel use has a huge potential to contribute to global food security and climate protection not only for the next decades but also for the coming century. Provision of secure, accessible and environmentally sustainable supplies of water, energy and food must thus be a priority. One of the major objectives of the world’s scientists, farmers, decisions makers and industrialists is to overcome the present dependence on fossil fuels in the agro-food sector. This dependency increases the volatility of food prices and affects economic access to sustenance. This book provides a critical review of recent developments in solar, wind and geothermal energy applications in agriculture and the agro-food sector such as processing, distribution, retail, preparation and cooking.
Download or read book Wind Energy for Low Head Irrigation written by South Dakota State University. Water Resources Institute and published by . This book was released on 1983 with total page 41 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book ECONOMICS OF WIND ENERGY FOR IRRIGATION PUMPING written by and published by . This book was released on 1980 with total page pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book Final Report on the Feasibility of Using Wind Power to Pump Irrigation Water written by Earl Gilmore and published by . This book was released on 1977 with total page 134 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book Irrigation Pumping with Wind Energy written by R.N. Clark and published by . This book was released on 1978 with total page 9 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book Wind Energy for Irrigation written by R. Nolan Clark and published by . This book was released on 1981 with total page 63 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
