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Wind Sustainability

and ResilienceHoria Hangan

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Wind Research @ Western

1960-2012 : 5 decades of wind

engineering research and cons

200+ graduate students 1500+ projects world-wide

3M$ Budget

tallest buildings and longest

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The WindEEE Dome

30 M$ Canadian Investm

Worlds first 3D wind cha

Produces any type of win

Large scale 25 meters in d

Capable of testing city blo

farms, transmission lines

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WindEEE : Conceptual Design

straight/sheared flow tornado flow downb

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WindEEE : Engineering Design

Active topographic 1.5 MW of fan powe

5 m lift and turntab

106 individually con

1600 floor roughnes

5 m diameter storm

2 m/s wind storm tr

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WindEEE : Project Timeline

CFI funded 30 M$: April 20

Design completed: Decem

WindEEE Research Institut

Construction start : Septem

Research ready : Septemb

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Western : New Research Park

A joint venture betw

Western

Fanshawe Co

City of Londo

The Advanced Manufacturing Park : 25 acres of develo

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WindEEE : National Research Facility

Wind Energy Strategic Netw

16 Universities (8 pr

39 Leading research

Numerous industria

Training of over 150

Complete numerica

and laboratory capa

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Sustainability Indicators

Economic Indicators

Growth, Employment, Exp

Environmental Indicat

Global: Climate, Energy an

Local: Air Quality, Mobility

Social Indicators

Justice, Safety, Citizens, Gr

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Urban Wind Sustainability

Complex Environment

Need for Resource Assessm

Urban Wind Turbines

Robust and Agile

Integration

Wind, Solar, Geothermal: S

SOM for Guangdong Tobacco Company

DOE sponsored Reno City tests

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Sustainability: PanAm Games Village Toront

PanAm Games: S- Preliminary Wind

- Numerical Simula

- Wind Energy Pote

- Wind Energy Extr

- Need for NEW Ur

- Need for Smart W

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Wind Rose (Annual)

Sustainability: Wind Atlas and Wind Resour

Wind Resources: CFD Simulati

Preliminary Numerica

Based on Wind Atlas AnnSpeed and Direction

d l bl d d d

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Available Wind Power

(as % of Building Power Needs)

Calculations are based on annual averages for

residential and commercial spaces

(US Energy Information Administration)

WindEEE: Available and Extracted Wind Pow

Wind Power Extra

with Present Vertical Axis

Calculations are based on an

Vertical Axis Wind Turbin

(One VAWT per hot-spot

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Nominal power: 30

Rotor: D=10m; H= 8

Cut-in Speed: 4m/s

Cut-out Speed: 20m

Wind Max. Power a The Wind and the T

are uncoupled !

Need for NOVEL W

Urban Environment

Sustainability: Best selected wind turbine

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i bili d l

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Sustainability: Rio de Janeiro Olympics - 20

Rio Olympics: Su- Passive Wind and S

- Building Skin Integ- Urban Block Integr

in collaboration with Universidad Federal de

Rio de Janeiro (UFRJ)

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Wind Resilience

New Local Storms

Tornados, Downbursts

> 65% of wind damage in C

Damage mechanisms

Roofs and Cladding

Community Resilience

Hospitals, Transmission no

Wi d R ili Th P bl

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Wind Resilience: The Problem

Conventional Framing: Sheets (1994)

Minimize f (Life Loss, Property Loss)

Refraiming: Pielke (1997)

Minimize Vulnerability

Vulnerability = f (Incidence, Exposure)

Incidence = f (Intensity, Occurrence, Frequency)

Wi d R ili I id

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Wind Resilience: Incidence

Occurrence

Hurricanes:

Tornados:

Tornado Alley

Dixie Alley

Wind Resilience: Non Synoptic Winds

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TORNADO

Wind Resilience: Non-Synoptic Winds

Wi d R ili D EF3

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Wind Resilience: Damage EF3

EF3 damage to farmstead, 183 m wideSource: National Weather Service

Wi d R ili D EF5

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Wind Resilience: Damage EF5

EF5 damage to Joplin Hospital, 183 m widSource: Wikipedia

CONCLUSIONS

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CONCLUSIONS

Sustainable and Resilient Infrastructure

Sustainability: move from retrofit to integr

Resilience: move from disaster to event im

Move the concept of S@R building envelope

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WindEEE Research Institute

E-mail: [email protected]

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