Open AccessSmall wind turbines: Sustainability criteria related to the local built environment
Author(s) -
Georgios Malliotakis,
Th.N. Nikolaidis,
Charalampos Baniotopoulos
Publication year - 2020
Publication title -
iop conference series. earth and environmental science
Language(s) - English
Resource type - Journals
eISSN - 1755-1307
pISSN - 1755-1315
DOI - 10.1088/1755-1315/410/1/012046
Subject(s) - wind power , turbine , sustainability , electricity , small wind turbine , environmental science , work (physics) , tower , electricity generation , marine engineering , energy consumption , civil engineering , engineering , power (physics) , mechanical engineering , ecology , physics , quantum mechanics , electrical engineering , biology
The present paper focuses on the enhancement of the development of small wind energy considering sustainable energy harvesting criteria. As known, the exploitation of wind energy as an environmental friendly energy source is carried out by wind turbine systems. In order to satisfy local energy needs, low power small scale wind turbines could be used. Their use, contributes to the reduction of carbon dioxide emissions in the local atmosphere, as well as to the consumption of electricity on site where power is produced. In the present work a comparative analysis has been performed taking into consideration two different application sites located in Crete Island, Greece. This analysis is based on actual recordings of the characteristics of the wind and followed by the selection of the optimum installation height, as well as the estimation of the construction cost. This analysis includes two different design cases using two different construction materials for the support tower, in particular steel and aluminium, taking into account the results of the respective advanced finite element analysis models. This way the proposed analysis leads to an enhanced evaluation of the sustainability of the small wind energy systems in the local built environment.