Novel wind tunnel for power generation

Author

Atieh, Ahmad ; Al Shariff, Samir ; Tammas, Ali ; Alharbi, M.

Author_Institution

Electr. Eng. Dept., Taibah Univ., Medina, Saudi Arabia

fYear

2014

fDate

25-27 March 2014

Firstpage

1

Lastpage

4

Abstract

Novel wind tunnel with conical and elevation structure is proposed and demonstrated for power generation. The tunnel is evaluated and characterized using sucking fan which is placed at the front end to simulate available wind in the atmosphere. A wind turbine is placed at the back end of the tunnel to generate electricity. The tunnel structure is made up from galvanized aluminum with square front and back ends with side length of 0.75 m and 0.5 m, respectively. The elevation of the tunnel measured from center to center of the front end and back end is 1.5 m. The used wind turbine in the tunnel has 48 cm diameter blades made up from aluminum. The average monthly wind speed in Medina, KSA is 5.5 m measured over 10 years. This wind speed was used in the analysis of the wind tunnel.

Keywords

fans; wind power; wind tunnels; wind turbines; Medina KSA; average monthly wind speed; conical structure; elevation structure; galvanized aluminum; novel wind tunnel; power generation; size 0.5 m; size 0.75 m; size 1.5 m; size 48 cm; size 5.5 m; sucking fan; wind turbine; Blades; Shape; Wind energy; Wind power generation; Wind speed; Wind turbines; renewable energy sources; wind energy; wind speed in Medina; wind tunnel; wind turbine;

fLanguage

English

Publisher

ieee

Conference_Titel

Renewable Energy Congress (IREC), 2014 5th International

Conference_Location

Hammamet

Print_ISBN

978-1-4799-2196-6

Type

conf

DOI

10.1109/IREC.2014.6826913

Filename

6826913