Installation of a Small Building-Mounted Wind Turbine: A Case Study from Idea to Implementation

Deltenre, Quentin; Runacres, Mark

doi:10.1007/978-3-030-13531-7_5

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“…Wind energy has evolved exponentially in the last few years, and its environmental, social, and economic aspects have become more apparent. Noise, vibration, light reflection, visual impacts, effects on birds, and shadows are the most critical environmental issues [168]. Nevertheless, the economic aspects are more complex than the environmental, because economic issues are multidimensional and vary between countries and regions.…”

Section: Environmental Social and Economic Aspectsmentioning

confidence: 99%

A Comprehensive Review on Development and Applications of Cross-Flow Wind Turbines

2023

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The rapid globalization of the energy crisis and the adverse effects of global warming have caused the need for non-conventional energy resources to be felt more than ever. As a result of this, vertical axis wind turbines (VAWT) have received much attention over the recent decades, and have thus been more developed and used worldwide. The cross-flow wind turbine (CFWT) is a wind turbine in the category of VAWTs, and perfectly suitable for urban applications due to its simplicity, high starting torque at low wind speed, and self-starting capability, even though its low power coefficient as its main drawback has slowed down its widespread use so far. The main aim of this paper is to review the scientific literature and recent developments in the field of CFWTs. The governing equations and turbulence models for the simulation of the turbine are discussed and various wind resource assessment methods for estimating potential site locations, different aspects, and wind energy harvesting systems from buildings are debated. The research gaps, challenges, and future possible works on such turbines and their applications are discussed. Investigations indicate that changing the rotor geometric parameters and adding innovative augmentation devices have been the most widely addressed approaches for making performance enhancement of the wind turbine in the literature. The critical performance-affecting parameters are improved by various innovative designs of the turbine structure or blades, as well as several augmentation techniques, such as guide nozzle, casing, windshield, guide vane, deflector, cowling, etc.

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Section: Environmental Social and Economic Aspectsmentioning

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A Comprehensive Review on Development and Applications of Cross-Flow Wind Turbines

2023

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“…vibrations, noise and shadow flicker. Recent papers [18, 38] studied the feasibility of installing SWT (up to 5.2 kW) on high‐rise buildings. They concluded that the installation generally has little impact on the building and its nearby environment.…”

Section: Case Study: Brussels and Its Rooftopsmentioning

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“…They concluded that the installation generally has little impact on the building and its nearby environment. It should be emphasised that the results of [18, 38] are for particular buildings, and it is not clear to what extent the conclusions can be generalised to other buildings.…”

Section: Case Study: Brussels and Its Rooftopsmentioning

confidence: 99%

Techno‐economic comparison of rooftop‐mounted PVs and small wind turbines: a case study for Brussels

Deltenre

Troyer

Runacres

2019

IET Renewable Power Generation

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As rooftops in cities are mostly underused, they have a large potential for decentralised electricity production. In that context, photovoltaic (PV) panels have proven to be an effective solution. Meanwhile, the market of small wind turbines is increasing, and some building owners have already installed one or more units on their roof. While the economic comparison between PV panels and wind turbines has already largely been addressed, in general, the space constraint of a rooftop has never been taken into account. In this work, the authors propose a methodology to compare the energy production and the return on investment both for rooftop-mounted PV panels and wind turbines. The comparison is made for relatively tall buildings (≥60 m) with good wind conditions (≥5 m/s annual mean wind speed). Using a brute-force approach, this study presents the results of the methodology applied to a case study: the Brussels Region. On tall rooftops, considering the space already taken by other installations and assuming an average wind speed of 5 m/s, small building-mounted wind turbines are shown to produce more energy than PV panels. Nevertheless, their return on investment is always lower than that of the PV panels.

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“…For these rooftops, photovoltaic (PV) panels are frequently used. In parallel, several building owners have already opted for small building-mounted wind turbines (between 500 W to 5 kW) [1][2][3]. There is little novelty in using rooftops to generate electricity, yet rooftop-mounted hybrid PV/wind systems have rarely been investigated.…”

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Performance assessment of hybrid PV-wind systems on high-rise rooftops in the Brussels-Capital Region

Deltenre

Troyer

Runacres

2020

Energy and Buildings

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Installation of a Small Building-Mounted Wind Turbine: A Case Study from Idea to Implementation

Cited by 5 publications

References 7 publications

A Comprehensive Review on Development and Applications of Cross-Flow Wind Turbines

A Comprehensive Review on Development and Applications of Cross-Flow Wind Turbines

Techno‐economic comparison of rooftop‐mounted PVs and small wind turbines: a case study for Brussels

Performance assessment of hybrid PV-wind systems on high-rise rooftops in the Brussels-Capital Region

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