An Efficient Trombe Wall with Building Integrated Wind Turbine

The construction industry uses large amounts of energy in building, heating, and cooling to achieve optimum thermal performance and acceptable comfort. Renewable energy is considered clean energy, and these resources should be used in the most appropriate way to minimize environmental impacts. Trombe wall is used to save energy in buildings. The Trombe wall's significant problem is that indoor temperature can reach above the 40 oC and this reasons to rise in cooling load. In this paper, a model has been developed for overcoming temperature growth in outdoor air in the summertime. In this model, a heat pipe is placed to the airflow channel for removing heat to be decreased indoor air. Also, an integrated wind turbine is installed in the building for electricity generation, and the results are evaluated.