Does it makes business and economic sense to harvest energy in a densely-populated highly built-up land-scarce jurisdiction where high wind speed is almost non-existent? And in the case of floating offshore wind turbines, how do we understand their dynamics for industry implementation? These and other questions are being answered with analytical, computational and experimental (ACE) results in Advanced Wind Turbines.
Wind is everywhere, but not all countries are equally endowed. In the first part of the book, the study of the Darrieus wind turbine is discussed with special emphasis on optimization for low wind speed condition. The second part of the book deals with the challenges in floating offshore wind turbines (FOWT). While FOWT in itself solves the problem of insufficient land and insufficient coastline for near shore wind turbines, the motion of FOWT typically creates conditions that are less that optimum.
While Advanced Wind Turbines directly addresses the specific problems mentioned above, it is hoped that the thought process and the angle of approach discussed in the book can be transferred and extended to other areas of technology for a wider readership.
Although the book was originally intended for small island states with very limited natural (such as wind) resources, it is hoped that beyond the technicalities discussed the readers will be inspired to always look for standard and non-standard solutions in the face of limitations.
Advanced Wind Turbines retails for US$178 / £155 (hardcover) and is also available in electronic formats. To order or know more about the book, visit http://www.worldscientific.com/worldscibooks/10.1142/13311.
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About the Authors
Dr Palanisamy MohanKumar is an expert in renewable energy technologies, thermal management of electrical systems, and precision machine design. Currently, he is the technical manager for the Mechanical and Thermal division of Rolls Royce Electrical (RRE) at Rolls Royce Singapore Pte Ltd. He is specialized in wind energy, tidal energy, resource assessments, and various energy storage technologies with over 18 years of experience in design and deployment of these systems. He has developed multiple wind and tidal turbines, especially for low wind and tidal resources that have been deployed in and around Singapore. He specialized in wind turbine aerodynamics and related computational fluid dynamics which earned him an industrial Ph.D. for the development of vertical axis wind turbines. Previous roles include Research and Development engineer specializing in the design of CNC machines, leading to a Masters in product design at Nanyang Technological University, Singapore. As a research engineer at the Energy Research Institute, Singapore, he developed battery energy storage systems, compressed air energy storage, and thermal energy storage for microgrid applications. As a research fellow at the National University of Singapore, he devised thermal management systems for medical devices. In RRE, currently, he is heading an international team to develop battery systems for aircraft and utility-scale energy storage and thermal management of power converter systems.
Dr Krishnamoorthi Sivalingam is an expert in energy transition (including wind energy). Currently he is Senior Manager at Surbana Jurong Pte. Ltd., Singapore, managing the Energy Transition portfolio of the company’s Energy and Industrial division to enable industries and various infrastructure-related projects to create a sustainable pathway to achieve net-zero carbon emission targets via renewable energy, energy efficiency with combined cycle gas turbines, and electrification. He was previously a Technical Manager at Rolls Royce Singapore Pte. Ltd., Engineering Manager at NTUtive of Nanyang Technological University, Singapore, and also worked in Lloyds Register, Siemens, Vestas, UTAC, Delphi Automotive Systems, and the Indian Government’s R&D Centre. He was deeply involved in several prominent multi-million-dollar projects and possesses vast experience in project, people, proposal and technical management in his 23 years of industrial experience. He is an expert in renewable energy systems including wind energy, energy storage systems, hydrogen fuel cells, electrification, and electro-thermo-mechanical aspects of other energy engineering systems. He has authored/co-authored nearly 30 papers in conferences and journals. He has also contributed to 21 patents and made more than 150 invention disclosures. He has conducted numerous market analyses, concept and feasibility studies, and managed various stakeholders, standards committees and regulatory authorities. He had directly contributed to and managed several significant projects, such as aerospace-related products development, wind (onshore and offshore including floating offshore wind), hermos-mechanical systems design, development, battery energy storage systems, CoolerTop thermal systems for megawatt scale wind turbines, and water treatment systems. Moreover, he has vast experience in dealing with fluid flow machinery and thermal systems at various levels including computational methodologies, analytical solutions, and final design of the product or project. He is proficient in the application of artificial intelligence, machine learning, the Internet of Things, data science, digital twin, and predictive analytics to engineering systems. He is also a digital transformation leader in engineering applications.
Associate Professor Teik-Cheng Lim is Head of the Ph.D. (Engineering) and Master of Engineering Programmes at the Singapore University of Social Sciences, Singapore. He won a Faculty of Engineering Annual Book Prize for his undergraduate studies at the National University of Singapore (NUS) and was subsequently awarded a research scholarship to pursue his Ph.D. at NUS. He has written and edited 6 books, namely A Partially Auxetic Metamaterial Inspired by the Maltese Cross (Cambridge University Press, 2022), Mechanics of Metamaterials with Negative Parameters (Springer, 2020), Auxetic Materials and Structures (Springer, 2015), Advances in Therapeutic Engineering (Taylor and Francis, 2012), Nanosensors (Taylor and Francis, 2011), and An Introduction to Electrospinning and Nanofibers (World Scientific, 2005). He has served as competition judge for the Singapore Science & Engineering Fair (SSEF) organized by the Singapore Science Centre, and Energy Innovation Challenge organized by the Institution of Engineers, Singapore. He also served as external examiner for Ph.D. theses at the University of Malta, Hong Kong Polytechnic University, and Indian Institute of Technology, and has been teaching part-time for Harbin Institute of Technology, China.
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DOI
10.1142/13311
