Course Description
This course is designed for anyone who would like to learn how to design wind energy systems from A to Z, electrical engineers, wind power system designers, and all who are interested in working in the wind energy field. The course has 9 sections, 64 lectures in 11h 14m total length.
The course will teach you the fundamentals of wind energy systems with step by step examples without a need for any previous knowledge.
What you will learn in this course:
- Types of wind turbines
- Rotor solidity and selection of number of rotor blades
- Power extracted by the turbine from the wind
- Betz limit and maximum rotor efficiency
- Factors affecting wind speed and density
- Applied force on the wind turbine, torque coefficient, and the importance of the TSR
- Wind turbine generator characteristics
- Effect of rotor diameter and generator size on power
- Wind turbines spacing
- Wind farm feasibility study
- Weibull and Rayleigh probability density functions
- Determination of Weibull parameters
- Determination of Weibull parameters using the graphical method
- Aerodynamics of wind turbines
- Pitch-controlled wind turbines
- Passive stall controlled wind turbines
- Active stall controlled wind turbines
- Maximum power point tracking in wind turbines
- Tip speed ratio (TSR) control
- Optimal torque control (OT) MPPT algorithm
- Power signal feedback (PSF) control
- Perturbation and observation (P&O) or hill-climb searching (HCS)
- Electricity generation using wind turbines
- Permanent magnet synchronous generator (PMSG)
- Wound rotor synchronous generator (WRSG)
- Doubly-fed induction generator (DFIG)
- Brushless permanent magnet DC generator (PMDC)
- Squirrel-cage induction generator
- Wound rotor induction generator
- Tubular steel wind turbine tower
- Lattice wind turbine tower
- Concrete wind turbine tower
- Hybrid wind turbine tower
- Brakes in the wind turbine
- Rotor brakes in the wind turbine
- Pitch drive or aerodynamic brakes in the wind turbine
- Simulation of a wind turbine system using the ETAP program
- MATLAB simulation of the wind turbine
- Cp plotting and lookup table in MATLAB
- MPPT in MATLAB Simulink
Course Content:
- Basics of Wind Turbine
- Wind Feasibility Study and Probability Distribution Functions
- Power Control of Wind Turbines
- Maximum Power Point Tracking Wind Turbines (MPPT)
- Types of Wind Electrical Generators
- Different Types of Towers
- Braking System in Wind Turbine
- ETAP Simulation for a Wind Energy System
- MATLAB Simulation for a Wind Energy System
Who Is This Course For:
- Wind power enthusiasts
- Electrical power engineers
- Electrical students
- Anyone who wants to get knowledge about wind power systems
- Complete beginners with zero solar experience or knowledge
Requirements:
- No prior Knowledge!
- Passion to Learn!
Downloadable course materials
After purchasing the course, students can download the following materials:
- Design Course For Wind Energy Systems - Slides (PDF)
- Simulink-Etap Files (ZIP)
- Weibull Graphical Example (XLSX)
- Weibull Example 2 (XLSX)
- Weibull Probability Distribution of Wind Speed for Gaza Strip for 10 Years (PDF)
- Introduction to Doubly-Fed Induction Generator for Wind Power Applications (PDF)
- Fundamentals of wind energy (PDF)
- Design of Wind Turbine Tower Height and Blade Length - Optimization Approach (PDF)
- Design of Wind Turbine (PDF)
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