The development of offshore wind power has become a pressing modern energy issue in which the UK is taking a major part, driven by the need to find new electrical power sources, avoiding the use of fossil fuels, in the knowledge of the extensive wind resource available around ou…
The new, thoroughly revised edition of this classic book on offshore wind farm reliability. This work captures the latest developments in turbine and farm design, monitoring, safety and maintenance of a centre pillar of the emerging carbon free energy system.
This book has 16 chapters. The following topics are dealt with:- Introduction to condition monitoring; Rotating electrical machines; Electrical machine construction, operation and failure modes; Reliability of machines and typical failure rates; Signal processing and instrumenta…