DEVELOPMENT OF WIND POWER GENERATOR SYSTEM MAKING USE OF WIND FLOW AROUND THE BUILDING(Environmental Engineering)

Abstract

Since the wind power generator system making use of wind flow around the building may be used effectively in an urban area, we developed such system that is assembled with a micro wind turbine of 500mm diameter and small generator. The basic performance of the element of the turbine was tested and installed at the field near a building for 13 months. The wind power generator system showed the following properties that could have high power coefficient. When the fixed directions of each micro wind turbine were optimized based on the predicted result of the wind environmental assessment at the installation site, it was confirmed that the amount of power generation for a micro wind turbine was 7% of the total wind energy on site through one year practical running.