Iowa State
University
Educational
Resources on Wind Energy
Link to REU WESEP page: http://www.windenergy.iastate.edu/reu.asp
Link to REU videos: http://www.windenergy.iastate.edu/wind-energy-seminar.asp
Click on below links to find the
corresponding materials:
Undergraduate REU short course materials
Undergraduate REU additional materials
Undergraduate
materials (various)
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Downloadable File |
HS level (grade) |
Description |
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9-10 |
Powerpoint slides providing an
overview of wind energy basics. |
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9-10 |
Powerpoint slides which give overview
of how wind energy fits into the national energy portfolio today and how that
may change over the next 40 years. |
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9-10 |
Word document summarizing steps necessary for developing a small wind energy installation at a school. |
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Undergraduate
REU Short course materials, Summer, 2013. Each day of the short course is 9-11
am.
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Click below for
documents |
Hours |
Date |
Instructor |
Topic |
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1 |
5/28 |
Takle |
Overview
of REU program schedule, wind energy activities at ISU; Need for scientific,
engineering, and technological leadership in wind energy for US future, |
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1 |
5/28 |
McCalley |
Wind
in the context of US energy systems Background on Wind Energy in US, Grand
challenge questions |
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1 |
5/29 |
Rajagopalan |
History of wind energy |
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1 |
5/30 |
Takle |
Wind
science 101 |
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1 |
5/30 |
Takle |
Wind
Science 101 |
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1 |
5/31 |
Anderson’s
Slides from 2012 |
Forecasting within the wind farm
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1 |
5/31 |
Gallus |
Forecasting
& weather models (WRF), PBL schemes |
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1 |
6/3 |
Rajewski |
Crop-wind
energy experiment |
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1 |
6/4 |
Rajagopalan |
Conservation equations, Aerodynamics and airfoils, Wind turbine
aerodynamics |
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1 |
6/4 |
Rajagopalan |
Anatomy of a modern wind energy conversion system, wind turbine
gears, wind turbine control |
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1 |
6/5 |
Ozbay |
An Experimental Study on the Effects of Wake
Interference on the Performance of Wind Turbines over Flat and Complex
Terrains |
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1 |
6/5 |
Sritharan |
Soils, foundations, towers - design load requirements |
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1 |
6/6 |
McCalley |
Power
industry overview & markets |
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Effects
of wind energy variability and effects of storage |
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1 |
6/7 |
Manufacturing
for blades, towers, nacelle & components/Transportation of oversized
loads and supply chain, end of life
planning |
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6/7 |
Manufacturing
for blades, towers, nacelle & components/Transportation of oversized
loads and supply chain, end of life
planning |
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Info only (no presentation) |
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1 |
Info only
(no presentation) |
AC
vs. DC and three-phase AC; electric components of wind turbines |
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1 |
6/10 |
Sharma |
Noise |
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Jackman |
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6/11 |
Peterson |
Policy |
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6/12 |
Bond |
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WESEP-REU
Proceedings
Results of 2012 WESEP REU students: Click Here.
Results of 2013 WESEP REU students: Click Here.
Additional Materials and Schedule for
WESEP-REU: Lunch and Learn/Seminars/Field Trips/Lab Tours
(Yellow-Confirmed; Red-Tentative; Blue-Contacted,
White-under consideration)
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5/26-6/1 |
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Short Course, 9-11, 3041 Coover |
Short Course, 9-11, 3041 Coover |
Short Course, 9-11, 3041 Coover |
Short Course, 9-11, 3041 Coover |
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6/2-6/8 |
Short Course, 9-11, 3041 Coover |
Short Course, 9-11, 3041 Coover |
Short Course, 9-11, 3041 Coover |
Short Course, 9-11, 3041 Coover |
Short Course, 9-11, 3041 Coover |
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6/9-6/6/15 |
Brookside Picnic Hickory Shelter, Brookside Park 4-6:30 pm |
Short Course, 9-11, 3041 Coover |
Short Course, 9-11, 3041 Coover |
Leonard Bond & Dan Barnard, NDE |
Visit to MEC Trading Floor (3-5)
in Urbandale, Depart 2:00 Presentations slides to be posted later. |
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6/16-6/22 |
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Talk by Mark Steffen of Enervation, 3041 Coover, 12-1 |
Wind Tunnel
Tour Front Entrance of Howe Hall, 2:00 |
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6/23-6/29 |
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Field trip to visit Clark Thompson Wind Turbine, Story City, Depart Coover 12:00 pm, return by 2:30 pm |
Visit to Alliant Energy Bent Tree Windfarm and Visit to Midwest ISO. Students arrive MISO by1:00 |
Manufacturing
Lab Tour, 3:00, 1310 Sweeney. Meet at the brown garage door to the lab,
located on old Sweeney hall, due north of the water tower. |
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6/30-7/6 |
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Seminar by Julie Lunquidst,
University of Colorado at Boulder, 3022 Agroomy
Hall, 12-1:00 |
Talk by Brian Lapewich of Availon |
JULY 4 HOLIDAY |
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7/7-7/13 |
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Talk by Merry Rankin, ISU Director of Sustainability Programs 12:00-1:00 UDCC |
Talk by Arne
Nielsen |
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7/14-7/20 |
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Workshop
on Energy, Transportation and Water Infrastructures at ISU Memorial Union,
see https://www.igert.windenergy.iastate.edu/events/etwi-psp/ |
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7/21-7/27 |
Tentative date for visit to Siemens in Fort Madison, Iowa Depart Monday morning to arrive Fort Madison 12:15. |
Webinar by Ryan Konopinski of GE |
1-2 pm Webinar by Anthony Russomanno, Princeton Review |
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7/28-8/3 |
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AEGIS Lab Tour, 2:00, 1101 Coover, (Hao Chen, Nicholas David to lead) |
WESEP Undergraduate Research Symposium 3041 Coover Hall |
Talk by Caroline
Jezierski |
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Undergraduate Materials - Various
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Level and course |
Description |
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Basic, Honors 322 |
Powerpoint slides summarizing
issues related to wind energy variability within power grids. |
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Basic, Honors 322 |
Powerpoint slides providing an
overview of wind energy. |
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Interm, EE 456 |
Powerpoint slides summarizing
US transmission issues driven by wind energy. |
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Interm, EE 457 |
Powerpoint slides summarizing
issues related to wind energy variability within power grids. |
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Interm, EE 456 |
Powerpoint slides describing
reactive power & voltage aspects of wind energy |
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Interm, EE 456 |
Word document providing calculation procedures for sag and ampacity, and also describing high temp, low sag
transmission technologies. |
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Interm, EE 456 |
Word document describing compact transmission line design
considerations. |
Materials in the below table are utilized in the
course EE 459/550, Electrimechanical Wind Energy
Conversion and Grid Integration
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Word
document covering wind and transient frequency response. |
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Word
document addressing capacity credit for wind via effective load carrying
capacity. |
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Word document in paper form
addressing control performance standards CPS1, CPS2, BAAL, as affected by
increasing penetration levels of wind. |
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Summarizes storage
technologies, provides detailed description of CAES, reports on production
costing software to evaluate storage technologies. |
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PPT slides introducing wind
energy for EE graduate-level course |
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PPT slides providing
overview of wind energy technology |
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PPT slides showing how to
compute LCOE of wind energy |
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PPT slides covering
transmission issues for wind energy |
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PPT slides covering
collection circuits analysis and design |
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PPT slides covering
offshore wind energy technologies. |
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PPT slides covering
inertial effects of wind turbines |
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PPT slides covering
inertial effects of wind turbines, with additional plots |
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PPT slides covering power
production and variability from wind farms |
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PPT slides covering effects
on regulation of wind farms |
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PPT slides covering effects
on load following of wind farms |
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PPT slides covering
integration of wind energy into electricity markets |
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PPT slides covering
steady-state operation of double-fed induction generators |
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PPT slides covering machine
transformations |
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PPT slides covering the d-q
transformation for induction machines |
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PPT slides covering voltage
source converters as used for DFIGs |
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Downloadable File |
Level and course |
Description |
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Advanced, EE 553 |
Word document
addressing primary control needs
associated with power systems have high penetrations of wind energy. |
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Advanced, EE 552 |
Word document providing introduction
to planning with production and investment cost data for all electric
generation technologies including wind and solar. |
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Advanced, EE 552 |
Word document providing
description of all electric generation technologies including wind and solar. |