Open AccessUrban Wind Energy Evaluation–A Case Study in NCUT Campus
Author(s) -
Biao Wang,
Shuai Sun
Publication year - 2020
Publication title -
iop conference series. earth and environmental science
Language(s) - English
Resource type - Journals
SCImago Journal Rank - 0.179
H-Index - 26
eISSN - 1755-1307
pISSN - 1755-1315
DOI - 10.1088/1755-1315/453/1/012035
Subject(s) - wind power , roof , environmental science , wind speed , meteorology , turbine , payback period , resource (disambiguation) , marine engineering , computer science , civil engineering , engineering , geography , aerospace engineering , computer network , production (economics) , electrical engineering , economics , macroeconomics
Urban wind energy exploitation is beneficial for a green city. This article takes a case study of a university campus and evaluates the wind resource over three most potential buildings in the campus. Long-term wind data collected over roof was used as wind rose to offer wind initial condition for CFD numerical simulation. Eight sessions with corresponding wind data were considered for simulation of wind environment of the whole campus. Weighted wind velocities at 6m and 10m above roof of the three chosen buildings were compared. With correction coefficient from values got from simulation and measurement, relative true wind velocities above the three buildings were found mostly more than 3 m/s. One building was taken with detailed evaluation with wind turbine installation and the payback period is 24 years, which is feasible and worthwhile to exploit wind energy in this campus.