- Cover image
- Title page
- Table of Contents
- Related titles
- Copyright
- List of contributors
- Woodhead Publishing Series in Energy
- Acknowledgments
- Part One. Introduction to offshore wind energy and offshore wind farm siting
- Part Two. Wind turbine components and design
- 5. Developments in materials for offshore wind turbine blades
- 6. Design of offshore wind turbine blades
- 7. Wind turbine gearbox design with drivetrain dynamic analysis
- 8. Design of generators for offshore wind turbines
- 8.1. Introduction: key issues in generator design
- 8.2. Electrical generators: types and principles of operation
- 8.3. Practical design and manufacture of electrical generators
- 8.4. Selection of generators for offshore wind turbines
- 8.5. Future trends in offshore wind turbine generators
- Sources of further information
- 9. Modelling of power electronic components for evaluation of efficiency, power density and power-to-mass ratio of offshore wind power converters
- 10. Design of offshore wind turbine towers
- 10.1. Introduction
- 10.2. Function and types of towers
- 10.3. Standards of reference
- 10.4. Design spiral process and loads' analysis
- 10.5. Shell and flange sizing
- 10.6. Secondary steel, other structure details, and coatings
- 10.7. Optimization considerations
- 10.8. Final remarks
- Glossary
- List of symbols
- List of greek symbols
- 11. Design of floating offshore wind turbines
- Part Three. Integration of wind farms into power grids
- 12. Offshore wind farm arrays
- 12.1. Fundamentals of offshore wind farm arrays
- 12.2. Design considerations
- 12.3. Main electrical components
- 12.4. Topologies
- 12.5. Converter interface arrangements and collector design
- 12.6. Wake farm arrangement – wake effects
- 12.7. Control objectives
- 12.8. Collector design procedure
- Abbreviations
- 13. Cabling to connect offshore wind turbines to onshore facilities
- 14. Integration of power from offshore wind turbines into onshore grids
- 15. Energy storage for offshore wind farms
- 16. Hydropower flexibility and transmission expansion to support integration of offshore wind
- 12. Offshore wind farm arrays
- Part Four. Installation and operation of offshore wind farms
- 17. Assembly, transportation, installation and commissioning of offshore wind farms
- 18. Condition monitoring of offshore wind turbines
- 18.1. Reliability of offshore wind turbines
- 18.2. Challenges in offshore wind turbine operation and maintenance
- 18.3. Offshore wind turbine condition monitoring techniques
- 18.4. Offshore wind turbine condition monitoring systems
- 18.5. Signal processing techniques used for WT CM
- 18.6. Existing issues and future tendencies of WT CM
- 19. Health and safety of offshore wind farms
- 20. Offshore wind turbine foundations – analysis and design
- 20.1. Foundation options for offshore wind-turbine structures
- 20.2. System of loading on offshore foundations
- 20.3. General aspects of OWT monopile foundation system
- 20.4. Offshore design codes and methods
- 20.5. Investigation of monopile–soil behaviour
- 20.6. Design of OWT foundation
- 20.7. Future outlook and research needs
- Nomenclature
- Abbreviations
- Index
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