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Projects: Summary of Projects by Region Projects in Region Scotland involving W K McMillan Steel Fabricators : 2003-3-10-1-5
Reference Number	2003-3-10-1-5
Title	Industrial development of a building integrated ducted wind turbine module
Status	Completed
Energy Categories	Renewable Energy Sources(Wind Energy) 100%;
Research Types	Applied Research and Development 100%
Science and Technology Fields	ENGINEERING AND TECHNOLOGY (Mechanical, Aeronautical and Manufacturing Engineering) 100%
UKERC Cross Cutting Characterisation	Not Cross-cutting 100%
Principal Investigator	Ms A McMillan No email address given W K McMillan Steel Fabricators
Award Type	3
Funding Source	Carbon Trust
Start Date	01 September 2003
End Date	30 May 2005
Duration	21 months
Total Grant Value	£21,750
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Region	Scotland
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Investigators	Principal Investigator	Ms A McMillan , W K McMillan Steel Fabricators (100.000%)
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Objectives	To utilise existing research to design and construct an optimised ducted wind turbine that can be integrated into the urban environment.
Abstract	The DTI's Energy White Paper of 2002 sets out the Government's stated aim of increasing the proportion of building energy needs being met on-site. This avoids the transmission losses associated with centralised generation. Moreover, if this energy is generated by renewables, the CO2 emissions of centralised generating facilities are avoided. Candidate renewable energy sources for buildings must be viewed in the context of climate, aesthetics, architecture and safety. Two possible renewables technologies are photovoltaics and wind turbines. For reasons of climate the latter has far greater potential for exploitation in the UK than the former. However, traditional wind turbines create a visual impact and interfere with a building's architecture. There is also the issue of safety, with the potential always present for moving parts to become detached and fall into the street below. Building integrated ducted wind turbines offer a way forward. Not only do they exploit the local accelerated mass flow created by buildings in urban environments, but a 30% increase in wind speed can be induced within the duct. The safety problem is circumvented by the encasement of moving parts and the visual impact is reduced. W K McMillan with help from the carbon Trust is performing the necessary prototype design, construction and evaluation work that brings forward the commercialisation of this technology. The performance of turbine components is being evaluated in a specially constructed test chamber. This will allow prototype ducted wind turbines to be constructed and tested in 'real world' situations. The measured performance of these prototypes will then inform the design optimisation process until a final design and model is produced. The energy yield of a 1m-diameter ducted wind turbine is estimated to be 340 kWh/year. Situating 40 of these on 100 public high-rise buildings in Glasgow, for example, would yield CO2 emission reductions of 585 tonnes/year
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