Increasing the produced power of building mounted wind turbines by optimization of roof geometry and utilization of solar panels

Abstract

The desire for design of environmental friendly buildings has led engineers for utilizing the optimized shape of renewable energies. In this paper, the optimum translocation of solar panels has been studied for the purpose of capturing the maximum solar energy and controlling the wind direction for getting maximum power from the wind turbine. This study has been done for the city of Tehran and by PSO algorithm in MATLAB. Also, a building with solar panels has been modeled by using CFD simulation, and after parametric solving, the best angle for capturing the maximum solar insulation and the maximum wind power has been achieved. The results show that for capturing the maximum solar energy, the tilt angle of panel must be around 30 degrees and in this condition the wind velocity increases about 1.5 times, because of deflection of wind flow.