Collected Links and Literature
of the Chapter „Special applications“ / „Spezialanwendungen“
listed by WWEA

Small Wind Turbines / Kleinwindkraftanlagen

• Paul Gipes wind-works.org with many articles, reports, book reviews, links etc.
  http://www.wind-works.org

• Wind Power - Renewable Energy for Home, Farm, and Business (Book)
  Chelsea Green Publishing, 2004 by Paul Gipe:
  http://www.wind-works.org/books/wind_power2004_home.html

• Department of Energy, U.S. (DOE) Wind Energy Program
  http://www.eere.energy.gov/RE/wind.html

• M. Heyde: Technik und Trends bei Kleinwindkraftanlagen, in: Erneuerbare Energien 07/2004 (magazine)
  http://www.erneuerbareenergien.de/0704/s_26-28.pdf#search=%22kleinwindkraftanlagen%22 (pdf)

• Qin Hesheng / Zhuang Yuexing: Current Status of the Small Wind Turbine Generator Systems development in China, in: WWEA (ed.): Wind Energy International 2005 / 2006, 265-267
  The book is available at: http://www.wwindea.org

Desalination / Meerwasserentsalzung

• Federal Ministry for Environment, Germany, Newsletter 2006
  http://www.erneuerbare-energien.de/files/erneuerbare_energien/downloads/application/pdf/newsletter_ee_f_200603.pdf

• Overview
  http://meerwasserentsalzung.know-library.net/

• Arizona, USA
  http://ag.arizona.edu/AZWATER/awr/mayjune06/specialprojects.html

• Information about desalination by Enercon
  http://www.enercon.de  
  http://www.enercon.de/www/de/broschueren.nsf/vwwebAnzeige/92D5B260C4BA8EE4C12570A500487D0E/$FILE/DesalinationSystems_Booklet_Englisch.pdf
  

Hybrid Systems / Hybridsysteme

• World Wind Energy Association WWEA, Hybrid-System-Working Group
  http://www.wwindea.org/home/index.php?option=com_content&task=blogcategory&id=22&Itemid=53

• Isolated Systems with Wind Power (Article)
  http://www.risoe.dk/rispubl/VEA/vealiste.htm
  Article by Niels-Erik Clausen et al. An Implementation Guideline. Risø National Laboratory, Roskilde 2001

• Transmission and Distribution World
  http://tdworld.com/mag/power_hybrid_systems_provide/index.html

• Renewables for Sustainable Village Power: Project Library (information, photos...)
  http://www.rsvp.nrel.gov/asp/logon.asp

• Darling SEES, South Africa: Wind Energy Visitor, Training and Education Centre, Including a wind-hybrid system
  http://www.DarlingSEES.com

Windpumps / Wind-Wasserpumpen

• Portal with many links
  http://www.windmillworld.com/links/windpumps.htm

• Wind-works.org by Paul Gipe, USA with many links
  http://www.wind-works.org/articles/small_turbines.html

• Article “American Style” windmills
  http://hamburger-bildungsserver.de/welcome.phtml?unten=/klima/energie/erw-4.html

• Overview from Peter Fraenkel
  http://www.bwea.com/ref/pumps.html

• Use of windpumps in Australia
  http://au.geocities.com/ozwindmills/

• MW Windmills (Company) – with photo gallery, video and information about wind pumps  
  http://www.mw-windmills.de/

• Wind Water Pumping: The Forgotten Option (Technical Report)
  http://www.ieiglobal.org/ESDv2n5/windwaterpumping.pdf

• The Rope Windpump Windpump design viable for rural areas in need of water.
  http://www.ieiglobal.org/ESDv1n6/ropewindpump.pdf

Windpump Case Studies / Fallbeispiele

• Disseminating Windpumps in Rural Kenya
  http://www.afrepren.org/adb_finesse/Task%203/Background%20Material/Energy%20Policy%20Article%20on%20Windpumps.pdf
  Bringing windpumps to Kenya to provide fresh water to locals.

• Hands On: Gone With the Wind (Philippine waterpumping project)
  http://www.tve.org/ho/doc.cfm?aid=262

• Bergey Case Study: Parwan District, Afghanistan
  http://www.bergey.com/Examples/Afghanistan.html

Ships / Schiffe

• Windschiffe.de - Information Portal to Ships and Wind Energy with many links
  http://www.windschiffe.de some links also in

• „Hamburger Appell“ des BWE / Appeal of the German Wind Energy Association
  http://www.windschiffe.de/hamburgerappell_klima+schiff.pdf

• „The new age of sail“ - Article from New Scientist (2005)
  http://www.newscientist.com/channel/earth/energy-fuels/mg18524881.600.html

• Skysail  
  http://www.skysails.info/

• Transitionrig
  http://www.transitionrig.com

• DynaRig - Yacht „Maltese Falcon
  http://www.symaltesefalcon.com/
  http://www.freivokh.com/page/clipp
  http://www.doylesuperyacht.com/news2.htm

• Solar Sailor Benelux:
  http://www.solarsailor.nl

• Enercon-Ships
  http://www.taz.de/pt/2006/06/29/a0271.1/text

Wind Energy and Extreme Conditions / Windenergie und Extrembedingungen

• Report of Deutsches Windenergie-Institut DEWI, Overview
  http://www.dewi.de/dewi_neu/deutsch/themen/bibli/pdf/seifert_stpoelten_2002.pdf#search=%22windenergie%20extreme%20bedingungen%22

Extreme offshore conditions / Extrembedingungen offshore (selection)

• Portal of the Federal Ministry for Environment, Germany  
  http://www.erneuerbare-energien.de

• BWE German Wind Energy Association:
  http://www.wind-energie.de/de/themen/offshore/

• Portal of dena German Energy Agency with further links:  
  http://www.offshore-wind.de

Extreme cold conditions / Extreme Kälte

• State-of-the-art of Wind Energy in Cold Climates (report, overview)
  http://arcticwind.vtt.fi/reports/state_of_the_art.pdf (pdf)

• „Technical Requirements for Rotor Blades Operating in Cold Climate“, by H. Seifert, DEWI-magazine Nr. 24/2004:
  http://www.dewi.de/dewi_neu/deutsch/themen/magazin/24/08.pdf (pdf)

• IG Windkraft – Austrian Wind Energy Association
  http://www.igwindkraft.at/
  http://www.igwindkraft.at/index.php?mdoc_id=1000282

• Swiss Wind Energy Association – suisse eole
  http://www.wind-energie.ch/default-d.htm and French

• http://www.suisse-eole.ch/images/1140/CH/guetsch.pdf#search=%22windenergie%20extrembedingungen%20andermatt%22 and French
  Highest wind turbine in Switzerland (Andermatt, 2300 m)

• Tauernwindpark – highest wind farm in Europe, located in the Alps  
  http://www.tauernwind.com/

• Wind Energy in Cold Climates (Finland)
  http://virtual.vtt.fi/virtual/arcticwind/index.htm

• IEA Co-operation on Wind Turbines in Icing and Cold Climates (report)
  http://www.vindteknikk.no/publikasjoner/PDFPublikasjoner/IEA%20CO-OPERATION%20ON%20WIND%20TURBINES%20IN%20ICING%20AND%20COLD%20CLIMATES.pdf (pdf)

Extreme wind conditions / Extreme Windverhältnisse

• Australian Antarctic Division: Mawson Station Case Study
  http://www.aad.gov.au/default.asp?casid=763
  Wind turbines at Mawson Station, Australian Antarctic Division, where winds annually average at 43 km/hr and gust at 250 km/hr.

• Extreme Power, by Wendy Pyper. Ecos Issue 116, 2003, 8-9
  http://downloads.publish.csiro.au/ecos/ecos_download.cfm?article_id=EC116p8.pdf&issue_id=116&issue_year=2003
  Article on the Mawson Station project.

• Extreme Load Estimation for Wind Turbines: Issues and Opportunities for Improved Practice (report)
  http://www.sandia.gov/wind/asme/AIAA-2001-0044.pdf (pdf)