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May 15, 2024
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Fall 2013 Catalog [ARCHIVED CATALOG]
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EL 268 - Wind Power Credit Hours: 4
This course will provide an overview of fundamental concepts necessary to work with wind power systems, including: aerodynamics of wind turbines, wind characteristics and resources, determination of turbine’s power output, design of various sizes wind turbines, power transmission, transformers, generators (ac induction/asynchronous, ac synchronous, ac double fed induction generators, dc generators), wind turbine materials and components, wind turbine siting, interconnection with the utility, off-the-grid systems, hybrid systems, wind energy economics, environmental aspects and impacts. Prerequisites: EL 150, EL 154 S (N)
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