| | Category | EN | P20 | Power Tower: Designing Green Buildings with Integrated Wind |
| | Turbines |
| | Abstract | This project's purpose was to determine what kind of wind turbine works |
| | best, a regular wind turbine or an integrated wind turbine. Integrated wind |
| | turbines are wind turbines that can be used for multiple purposes, |
| | including commercial residences. Wind turbines are integrated in the |
| | design of the building and using the building's shape as an airfoil, wind |
| | energy can be maximized. Two integrated wind turbines were |
| | constructed and compared to a free stream wind turbine. The integrated |
| | wind turbine buildings consisted of two towers each. The two wind |
| | turbines were a rectangular base building design and an airfoil base |
| | building design. Testing for power produced, the airfoil based integrated |
| | wind turbine produced the most wind energy, the rectangular base |
| | building design coming in second, and lastly the free stream wind turbine. |
| | Therefore in conclusion, an integrated wind turbine design harnesses |
| | more wind energy than a conventional free stream wind turbine. This is |
| | due to the fact that wind is accelerated in between the two towers which |
| | allows for greater RPMs of the propeller. |
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| | Bahrain World Trade Center. 26 Mar. 2009 <http://www.bahrainwtc.com>. |
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