Access to clean energy through the special design of the buildings to enhance the wind speed

Other Title(s)

الحصول على الطاقة النظيفة من خلال تصميم خاص من المباني لتعزيز سرعة الرياح

Dissertant

al-Rawashidah, Rasha Abad

Thesis advisor

al-Jabburi, Sallum A.

University

Mutah University

Faculty

Faculty of Engineering

Department

Mechanical Engineering Department

University Country

Jordan

Degree

Master

Degree Date

2017

English Abstract

There is a growing interest for the use of wind power at buildings.

But wind turbine deployment in the built environment is inherently more complicated than in rural, open space.

Safe and reliable operation of wind turbines in the highly turbulent built environment is specialized and technically challenging.

The main objective of this work is to accelerate the wind speed before reaching the turbines by using spatial design of twins buildings ,this will generate more electric power.

By twin commercial buildings design layout which are enclosing an angle between them.

The variables which are affecting the wind speed directed to turbines are the angle, the height and the length of buildings.

Venturi effect of wind speed is growing to become the largest values at the output of the two buildings.

The result showed that the wind was accelerated in the intervening space between the buildings irrespective of distance between the walls of adjacent buildings, nine wind turbines were installed in three rows and three columns on the wall between the two buildings to generate the electricity.

These turbines were located at the top of the wall because wind speed depends on height.

Also the results shown that the wind speed was accelerated by about five times for the present study building design, while the generated power was about 125 times than the case without spatial design of buildings.

Finally the average power generated for the present work buildings dimensions with normal consumption of electricity will cover about 13% of the total demand (the power generated for this design about 0.23 GWh/year).

Main Subjects

Mechanical Engineering

Topics

• Wind power
• Buildings
• Winds
• Speed

No. of Pages

67

Table of Contents

• APA
• MLA
• AMA

Language

English

Data Type

Arab Theses

Record ID

BIM-749096