CFD study on aerodynamic power output of a 110 kW building augmented wind turbine

Abstract Building augmented wind turbine (BAWT) has been studied numerically. BAWT is a new technology trend to combine wind turbine with building and it has several advantages compared with the conventional stand-alone wind turbine such as minimization of electrical transmission loss and construction cost for the distributed power source and by using existing building. In this paper, a 110 kW horizontal axis wind turbine blade is designed and CFD analysis is carried out with various reference wind speed and flow angle for the 110 kW BAWT. The results show that aerodynamic power output of 110 kW BAWT is higher than that of 110 kW stand-alone wind turbine due to the concentration effect caused by the wind speed acceleration between buildings. Also this kind of advantage appeared in flow angle between −30 ° and 15 °. Due to the fixed rotational direction of the wind turbine, the effect of flow angle shows asymmetric nature. It is also shown that to exceed Betz limit of 0.593 is possible by the effect of buildings similar to the ducts and shrouds. The results of this study can be applied to the research and development of various BAWT and enhancement of energy efficiency of wind turbine.

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