Print Email Facebook Twitter Systems and Knowledge Engineering Design of an Urban Vertical Axis Wind Turbine Title Systems and Knowledge Engineering Design of an Urban Vertical Axis Wind Turbine Author Kotsarinis, C. Contributor van Bussel, G.J.W. (mentor) Simao Ferreira, C.J. (mentor) Bierbooms, W.A.A.M. (mentor) Chiciudean, T. (mentor) Faculty Aerospace Engineering Department Wind Energy Programme Sustainable Energy Technology Date 2009-01-02 Abstract The development of wind energy in the built environment is nowadays a growing industry, with several small companies developing different wind turbine designs. However, most of the designs introduced so far were proven to be unsuitable because of the complex urban wind conditions and because of the fact that the design of urban wind turbines is by its nature a challenging process, with many different issues needed to be taken into consideration. The thesis deals with the conceptual design of an Urban Vertical Axis Wind Turbine, with main purpose to improve the state-of-the-art of the design of these systems using Systems Engineering and Knowledge Engineering. A distinct and integrated design procedure has been established. Based on this procedure, the most relevant issues for the design were investigated, including the operational environment. The requirements of the system were derived and the SE process was used for transforming these requirements into optimum design solutions. The resulting topology was analyzed, the components and the interactions between them and the operational environment were identified, together with the design considerations. The necessary scientific knowledge for the design of these systems was identified and allocated to the different components. The application of the methodology focused on the rotor. Additional SE tools were used and the detailed design procedure for the system and for the rotor was addressed. The procedure was supported by Knowledge Engineering/Knowledge Management techniques, and the software tool PCPACK was used for capturing and structuring all the knowledge required for this project. As a result, an initiation of a knowledgebase for the urban VAWT systems has been established. Subject Windenergy To reference this document use: http://resolver.tudelft.nl/uuid:5ab4fb9b-dcf4-4b1a-9379-c7edf113d26f Part of collection Student theses Document type master thesis Rights (c) 2009 Charilaos Kotsarinis Files PDF Charilaos Kotsarinis r.pdf 1.72 MB Close viewer /islandora/object/uuid:5ab4fb9b-dcf4-4b1a-9379-c7edf113d26f/datastream/OBJ/view