Notes - Chapter 5 Summary

The following notes are taken from Wind Turbine Technology by Ahmad Hemami.

• main components of a wind turbine are
• tower
• newer are cylindrical, sometimes with a taper
• older are lattice towers
• nacelle
• housing on the top of tower
• provides room for gearbox, generator, and other misc components
• rotor
• moving part, consists of blade and hub
• foundation
• heavy concrete foundation to endure wind
• Each wind turbine has a transformer to usually increase the voltage of electricity produced by generator
• pad-mount transformer
• All turbines have anemometer that measures direction and speed of wind
• sometimes wind direction is detected with a separate device

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