Authors:
Oscar Garcia
1
;
Mario Del Rio
1
;
Alain Ulazia
2
;
Juan Luis Osa
3
and
Gabriel Ibarra-Berastegi
2
Affiliations:
1
ROSEO start-up, University of Basque Country (UPV/EHU), Otaola 29, 20600 Eibar, Basque Country and Spain
;
2
NI and Fluid Mechanics Department, University of the Basque Country (UPV/EHU), Basque Country and Spain
;
3
Mechanical Engineering Department, University of the Basque Country (UPV/EHU), Basque Country and Spain
Keyword(s):
Building Integrated Wind Turbine, Savonious, ERA-Interim, ERA5, Anemometer, Calibration.
Related
Ontology
Subjects/Areas/Topics:
Energy and Economy
;
Energy-Aware Systems and Technologies
;
Greener Systems Planning and Design
;
Microgeneration
;
Renewable Energy Resources
;
Smart Grids
Abstract:
In this paper a new Building Integrated Wind Turbine (BIWT) called ROSEO-BIWT is presented. The ROSEO-BIWT is installed on the edge of the buildings and it consists of a Savonius wind turbine and two concentration panels that have the purpose of accelerating the usual horizontal wind together with the vertical upward air stream on the wall of the building, improving the performance of the wind turbine and also getting a good architectural integration. We have studied its hypothetical performance and design configuration in a tall building of Bilbao using wind data from the reanalysis ERA-Interim (European Centre for Medium-Range Weather Forecasts’ reanalysis), from an anemometer to calibrate the data, and its real small-scale behavior in a wind tunnel. Promising preliminary results have been obtained, which could suppose an energy production increment of 20%.