WIND Power SYSTEMS

NPRE 475

Dr. Magdi Ragheb

Spring 2023

Course Information: NPRE 475
Recommended: Textbook
Credit: 3 credit hours, undergraduates,
4 credit hours, 1 unit for graduate students; with extra term project or paper.

Professor

Taught by: Professor M. Ragheb, Ph. D.

Teaching Evaluations:

Assignments and Teaching Assistants

Assignments will account for 40 percent of the final grade.

Assignments Policy and Guidelines

In case of "Internet Rationing" or collapse, final grade will be based on received assignments and on tests taken.

List of assignments Word
List of assignments, pdf

PRE 475 Spring 2023 First Midterm.
During class period, Friday, February 24

NPRE 475 Spring 2023 Second Midterm.
During class period, Monday, March 27

NPRE 475 Spring 2023 Third Exam.
Monday May 8, 7-10 pm

Teaching Assistant Information
Course Outline
Course University Review

Prerequisites

CS 101, or MATH 241 or MATH 380, one of: CHBE 421, ECE 110, ECE 205, ME310, TAM 335

Credit

Undergraduates: 3 units.

Graduates: 3 units + 1 unit with term paper or special project, for a total of 4 units.

Tests

Two midterm tests and one final test are scheduled.

Each will account for 20 percent of the final grade for a total of 60 percent of the final grade.

Assignments, quizzes (unannounced), final project, 40 percent. Attendance receives up to 20 extra credit points.

Calendar for Spring Semester, 2023

Room 114 Transportation Building

Face-to-face synchronous meetings with required attendance

2:00-2:50 pm, MWF

Martin Luther King Jr. Day	Monday, January 16 (No classes)
Instruction begins	Tuesday January 17
Spring Break begins	Saturday March 11
Instruction resumes	Monday March 20
Instruction ends	Wednesday May 3
Reading day	Thursday May 4
Final Examinations Begin	Friday, May 5
Final Examinations End	Friday, May 12
First Midterm exam	Friday, February 24
Second Midterm exam	Monday, March 27
Final Exam	Monday May 8, 7-10 pm

Book Chapters

Magdi Ragheb (2017), "Economics of Wind Power Generation," Chap. 25, Part VI, Financial Modeling/Wind Economics, pp. 537 -554, in: Trevor M. Letcher, Ed., "Wind Energy Engineering, A Handbook for Onshore and Offshore Wind Turbines," Academic Press, Elsevier, 2017.

Magdi Ragheb (2017), "History of Harnessing Wind Power," Chap. 7, Part III, Wind Turbine Technology, pp. 127 - 142, in: Trevor M. Letcher, Ed., "Wind Energy Engineering, A Handbook for Onshore and Offshore Wind Turbines," Academic Press, Elsevier, 2017.

Magdi Ragheb and Adam M. Ragheb (2011). "Wind Turbines Theory - The Betz Equation and Optimal Rotor Tip Speed Ratio,"
Fundamental and Advanced Topics in Wind Power, Rupp Carriveau (Ed.), ISBN: 978-953-307-508-2,
InTech, http://www.intechopen.com/articles/show/title/wind-turbines-theory-the-betz-equation-and-optimal-rotor-tip-speed-ratio

Adam M. Ragheb and Magdi Ragheb (2011). "Wind Turbine Gearbox Technologies,"
Fundamental and Advanced Topics in Wind Power, Rupp Carriveau (Ed.), ISBN: 978-953-307-508-2,
InTech, http://www.intechopen.com/articles/show/title/wind-turbine-gearbox-technologies

WebTextbook

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Intellectual Property IP
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WIND POWER SYSTEMS
Harvesting the Wind

© M. Ragheb

Preface

1. Introduction
2. Global Wind Power Status
3. USA Wind Energy Resources
4. Properties and Statistical Analysis of the Wind
5. Wind Generators History
6. Wind Shear, Roughness Classes and Turbine Energy Production
7. Fluid Mechanics, Euler and Bernoulli Equations
8. Aerodynamics of Rotor Blades
9. Energy and Power Content of the Wind
10. Wind Energy Conversion Theory, Betz Equation
11. Torque Generation in Wind Turbines
12. Optimal Rotor Tip Speed Ratio
13. Components of Wind Machines
14. Orography and Wind Turbine Siting
15. Offshore Wind Farms Siting
16. Airborne Wind Turbine Concepts
17. Vertical Axis Wind Turbines
18. Small Wind Generators
19. Modern Wind Generators
20. Wind Turbines in the Urban Environment
21. Dynamic and Structural Loading in Wind Turbines
22. Fatigue Loading in Wind Turbines
23. Wind Energy Converters Concepts
24. Control of Wind Turbines
25. Computational Fluid Dynamics
26. Random Numbers Generation
27. Direct Simulation or Analog Monte Carlo
28. Monte Carlo Simulation of Fluid Flow
29. Structural Towers
30. Historical Wind Generators Machines
31. Environmental Considerations
32. Licensing Policy of Wind Power Systems
33. Legal Considerations of Wind Power Generation
34. Economics of Wind Energy
35. Wind Project Development and Financing
36. Electrical Generation and Grid System Integration
37. Safety of Wind Systems
38. Risk and Safety Ethics
39. Wind Power for a Mars Mission
40. Energy Storage with Wind Power
41. Radar Signatures of Wind Turbines
42. High Voltage Direct Current for Wind Power
43. Sustainable Global Energy Desertec Concept
44. Smart Electrical Grid and Metering
45. Similarity, Scaling and Model Testing
46. Rents, Royalties, Easements and Land Values
47. Global Climatic Variation and Energy Use
48. Political Aspects of Wind Power
49. Natural Gas as a Bridge Fuel to Renewables
50. Energy Hydrogenation and Decarbonization
51. Powerwall and Powerpack Tesla Batteries
52. Wind Turbines Gearbox Technologies
53. Decommissioning Wind Turbines

Appendices

I.       Greek Prefixes
II.      Abbreviations
III.    Conversion Factors and Physical Constants
IV.    Wind Class definition, USA
V.      Beaufort Wind Speed Scale
VI.     Air density at Standard Temperature and Pressure
VII.   Wind Power
VIII. Roughness Classes and Roughness Length, EU
IX.     Carbon Dioxide Emissions
X.      Energy Content of Different Fuels
XI.    Tacoma Narrows Bridge
XII    Smith Putman Historical Wind Turbine
XIII Vector Relations

References

Yankee Ridge Wind Park Project
Horizontal Axis Wind Turbine (HAWT) Wind Turbine Construction Project, Video
Horizontal Axis Wind Turbine (HAWT) Wind Turbine Construction Project, Photos
Horizontal Axis Wind Turbine with Electrolyzer for Hydrogen Energy storage
Vertical Axis Wind Turbine (VAWT) Wind Turbine Project
Helical Savonius Wind Turbine Construction
Economics spreadsheet calculator

Gradute papers

Spring 2021

Raymond Casimir Trelka, "Hardening Wind Turbines against Extreme weather Phenomena"
Aanchal Gupta, "Counter Rotating Wind Turbines"
Kishan Samir Patel, "Increased Trend Towards Offshore Wind Farms"

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NPRE590SF Nuclear and Radiological Safety

NPRE459/CSE417 Fuzzy Logic and its Applications

World Wide Web Links

Climbing and descending a wind turbine safely: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=UWSckm8zTc8
Wind Power, the Truth: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=8btlmWn0xdY

Home Wind Turbines, Pros and Cons: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=pKafzwY2PSU
Kite Power Systems : https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=vMTchVXedkk
Kite Power Solutions, The New Way of harnessing Wind Energy: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=yiqW_YlX9uA
Explaining the two directions kite motor flip flop hub: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=_TKF63CZFgo
The Search for a high flying clean energy generator: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=4yfz-zWnFTk
Tunisia, Revolutionary bladeless wind turbine could change game in wind farms: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=rQfHTjnp-pM

Aerogenerateur BSB, The Wind turbine of the future: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=fS6DnncsHiA
Sky Wolf Wind Turbine Animation 2014: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=jGTO886FKMA
Ultra Lw Wind Speed HAWT Turbine Blade: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=JOHCMYn_JJM
Windtrap,a new wind turbine: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ldGafXZdvlo
A New Direction in Wind Power: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Q_vcDQDo3qo
A Different Kind of Wind Power: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=gLy13wlclns

New Wind Energy Technology: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=8k_zheV-Yug
Windjuicer a new wind power technology: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=NgOjbNy2HFk
The 800 percent efficient Robert Adams motor generator: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=J2bPDDWqSvM
How do vortex generators work: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=eP-YUDe9HF0
Quadcopter view of Wind Turbines: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=_XWZtcsT8kQ

Global Wind Energy Council: http://www.gwec.net/

American Wind Energy Association: http://www.awea.org

British Wind Energy Association: http://www.bwea.com

European Wind Energy Association: http://www.ewea.org

The Canadian Wind Energy Association: http://www.canwea.ca

The Irish Wind Energy Association: http://www.iwea.com

General Electric Wind Energy: http://www.gepower.com/businesses/ge_wind_energy/en/index.htm

US Department of Energy Wind and Hydropower Program: http://www.eere.energy.gov/windandhydro/

Finnish Wind Power Association: http://www.tuulivoimayhdistys.fi/

Minnessota Wind Energy Information Index Page: http://www.me3.org/issues/wind/

Centre for Renewable Energy Sources, Greece: http://www.cres.gr/kape/index.htm

Energy Research Centre of the Netherlands: http://www.ecn.nl/

German Wind Energy Institute: http://www.dewi.de/

National Wind Technology Center, USA: http://www.nrel.gov/wind/

Risø National Laboratory, Denmark: http://www.risoe.dk/
The European Renewable Energy Centres Agency, Brussels: http://www.eurec.be/
www.windustry.com
www.illinoiscleanenergy.org/
www.commerce.state.il.us/dceo/Bureaus/Energy_Recycling
www.elpc.org
www.awea.org/
www.iira.org/
www.windonthewires.org/
www.nationalwind.org/
Illinois Rural Electric Cooperative: www.e-co-op.com
U.S. Department of Energy / Energy Efficiency and Renewable Energy: www.eere.energy.gov
DSIRE / Database of State Incentives for Renewable Energy: www.dsireusa.org
SERC / State Environmental Resource Center / RPS Info Center: www.serconline.org/RPS/fact.html
National Renewable Energy Laboratory (NREL): www.nrel.gov
AWEA / American Wind Energy Association: www.awea.org/
20% Wind Energy by 2030: www.20percentwind.org/
U.S. Department of Energy, Wind Powering America: www.eere.energy.gov/
NREL / National Renewable Energy Lab / Wind: www.nrel.gov/wind/
CWEC / California Wind Energy Collaborative: http://cwec.ucdavis.edu
California Government Energy Home Page: www.energy.ca.gov/
CEC / California Energy Commission: www.energy.ca.gov/commission/index.html
AWEA / Small Wind Section: www.awea.org/smallwind/
NREL / National Renewable Energy Lab / Wind Maps: www.nrel.gov/gis/wind.html
NREL / Wind Energy Resource Atlas of the United States: http://rredc.nrel.gov/wind/pubs/atlas/
www.windpowermaps.org/windmaps/windmaps.asp
EERE / Energy Efficiency and Renewable Energy / Calif. Wind Map: www.eere.energy.gov/windandhydro/windpoweringamerica/images/windmaps/ca_50m_800.jpg
North American Wind Power: www.nawindpower.com/page.php?5
WindTech International: www.windtech-international.com/
Clean Edge / The Clean Tech Market Authority: www.cleanedge.com/
GreenBiz:
www.greenbiz.com/about/index.cfm#sistersites
www.greenerbuildings.com/
www.greenercomputing.com/
www.climatebiz.com/
www.greenbizleaders.com/
Renewable Energy Access: www.renewableenergyaccess.com/rea/home
Interstate Renewable Energy Council: www.irecusa.org/
California CleanTech: www.cacleantech.com/
Emerging Energy Research: www.emerging-energy.com/
Energy Central: www.energycentral.com/
Energy Central EnergyBiz Newsletter: www.energycentral.com/centers/energybiz/ebi_list.cfm
Windustry / Wind Farmers Network: www.windustry.org/
Windustry / Small Wind Turbine Manufacturers: www.windustry.org/resources/companies_hfw_manufacturers.htm
NREL / PV Watts: http://rredc.nrel.gov/solar/calculators/PVWATTS/
www.findsolar.com/index.php?page=rightforme
American Vision Windows: http://www.americanvisionwindows.com/all-about-wind-energy.php

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