Peter Tavner

Gebundenes Buch

Wave and Tidal Generation Devices: Reliability and Availability

Beschreibung

To some extent the wave and tidal generation industry is following in the wake of the wind industry, learning from the growing experience of offshore wind farm deployment. This book combines wind industry lessons with wave and tidal field knowledge to explore the main reliability and availability issues facing this growing industry.

Autor

Peter Tavner has held a number of senior research and technical positions in the electrical supply and manufacturing industries, including Group Head in a former CEGB research laboratory and Technical Director of Laurence, Scott & Electromotors Ltd (LSE) and Brush Electrical Machines Ltd (BEM), two of the UK's large electrical machine manufacturers. He was also Group Technical Director of FKI Energy Technology, former owner of LSE & BEM, an international business manufacturing wind turbines, electrical machines and drives in the UK, Holland, Italy, Germany and the Czech Republic. He was Professor of New & Renewable Energy at Durham University for 8 years, establishing the New & Renewable Energy MSc and MEng courses and placing the university as a leading UK centre in off-shore wind energy. Professor Tavner was President of the European Academy of Wind Energy from 2010-2012, author of two IET books: Condition Monitoring of Rotating Electrical Machines (1987, 2008), and Offshore Wind Turbines: Reliability, availability and maintenance (2012), and winner of the Institution Premium of the IEE in 1988.

Produktdetails

• Energy Engineering
• Verlag: Institution of Engineering & Technology
• Seitenzahl: 304
• Erscheinungstermin: 16. März 2017
• Englisch
• Abmessung: 239mm x 160mm x 23mm
• Gewicht: 590g
• ISBN-13: 9781849197342
• ISBN-10: 1849197342
• Artikelnr.: 45343606