Interdisciplinary design study of a high-rise integrated roof wind energy system

Today’s market in micro-wind turbines is in constant development introducing more efficient solutions for the future. Besides the private use of tower supported turbines, opportunities to integrate wind turbines in the built environment arise. The Integrated Roof Wind Energy System (IRWES) presented...

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Main Authors: Moonen S.P.G., Suma A.B., Ferraro R.M., Dekker R.W.A.
Format: Article
Language:English
Published: EDP Sciences 2012-10-01
Series:EPJ Web of Conferences
Online Access:http://dx.doi.org/10.1051/epjconf/20123303001
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spelling doaj-8d33b15ab32349c5b5431d1dc43e535f2021-08-02T03:23:19ZengEDP SciencesEPJ Web of Conferences2100-014X2012-10-01330300110.1051/epjconf/20123303001Interdisciplinary design study of a high-rise integrated roof wind energy systemMoonen S.P.G.Suma A.B.Ferraro R.M.Dekker R.W.A.Today’s market in micro-wind turbines is in constant development introducing more efficient solutions for the future. Besides the private use of tower supported turbines, opportunities to integrate wind turbines in the built environment arise. The Integrated Roof Wind Energy System (IRWES) presented in this work is a modular roof structure integrated on top of existing or new buildings. IRWES is build up by an axial array of skewed shaped funnels used for both wind inlet and outlet. This inventive use of shape and geometry leads to a converging air capturing inlet to create high wind mass flow and velocity toward a Vertical Axis Wind Turbine (VAWT) in the center-top of the roof unit for the generation of a relatively high amount of energy. The scope of this research aims to make an optimized structural design of IRWES to be placed on top of the Vertigo building in Eindhoven; analysis of the structural performance; and impact to the existing structure by means of Finite Element Modeling (FEM). Results show that the obvious impact of wind pressure to the structural design is easily supported in different configurations of fairly simple lightweight structures. In particular, the weight addition to existing buildings remains minimal.http://dx.doi.org/10.1051/epjconf/20123303001
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author Moonen S.P.G.
Suma A.B.
Ferraro R.M.
Dekker R.W.A.
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Suma A.B.
Ferraro R.M.
Dekker R.W.A.
Interdisciplinary design study of a high-rise integrated roof wind energy system
EPJ Web of Conferences
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Suma A.B.
Ferraro R.M.
Dekker R.W.A.
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title Interdisciplinary design study of a high-rise integrated roof wind energy system
title_short Interdisciplinary design study of a high-rise integrated roof wind energy system
title_full Interdisciplinary design study of a high-rise integrated roof wind energy system
title_fullStr Interdisciplinary design study of a high-rise integrated roof wind energy system
title_full_unstemmed Interdisciplinary design study of a high-rise integrated roof wind energy system
title_sort interdisciplinary design study of a high-rise integrated roof wind energy system
publisher EDP Sciences
series EPJ Web of Conferences
issn 2100-014X
publishDate 2012-10-01
description Today’s market in micro-wind turbines is in constant development introducing more efficient solutions for the future. Besides the private use of tower supported turbines, opportunities to integrate wind turbines in the built environment arise. The Integrated Roof Wind Energy System (IRWES) presented in this work is a modular roof structure integrated on top of existing or new buildings. IRWES is build up by an axial array of skewed shaped funnels used for both wind inlet and outlet. This inventive use of shape and geometry leads to a converging air capturing inlet to create high wind mass flow and velocity toward a Vertical Axis Wind Turbine (VAWT) in the center-top of the roof unit for the generation of a relatively high amount of energy. The scope of this research aims to make an optimized structural design of IRWES to be placed on top of the Vertigo building in Eindhoven; analysis of the structural performance; and impact to the existing structure by means of Finite Element Modeling (FEM). Results show that the obvious impact of wind pressure to the structural design is easily supported in different configurations of fairly simple lightweight structures. In particular, the weight addition to existing buildings remains minimal.
url http://dx.doi.org/10.1051/epjconf/20123303001
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