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noncturnal variation of
urban microclimate
Tropical Climate in UTM
Kuala Lumpur Campus
Husna Aini Swarno
Dr. Sheikh Ahmad Zaki
Siti Wan Syahidah
Mohamed Sukri Mat Ali
Wind Engineering for Urban, Artificial, Man-made
Environment, Malaysia Japan Institute of Technology,
UTM Kuala Lumpur, Malaysia.
ABSTRACT
This paper presents an assessment of climatology season in UTM Kuala
Lumpur campus area. The data used are real-time weather data which
obtained from the weather station by Campbell Scientific from March 2014 to
February 2015. The weather station was installed at three potential locations
on campus. One year data was analysed using Fortran77 and the data were
analysed by daily, hourly and monthly. The result indicates that the air
temperature around the campus between 25C - 34C and for the solar
radiation 461W/m - 706 W/m. Since the campus has a few rise building
such as Menara Razak, 84 metres height and Malaysia-Japan International
Institute Technology, 53 metres height. Thus, the height of the rise building
was affected the wind speed and wind direction. The wind speed average is
about 1.5 2.5 m/s in the campus area and somehow the wind speed were up
to 5 m/s. Wind direction also more from North West direction. This study of
interest is for assessing the tropical climate in UTM campus, hence to
generic the potential of wind speed and wind direction to install the micro
scale wind turbine if the wind speed is enough to generate the wind power
electricity in the campus.
Keywords: Wind energy, Renewable Energy, Wind energy potential
1. Introduction
Wind energy is the large scale of gasses on earth which consist of the bulk
movement of air. Wind turbines convert the kinetic energy to the mechanical
energy. If the mechanical energy is used to produce electricity, the device
may be called a wind generator or wind generator. Before installing the wind
power system, a comprehensive study for the wind speed need to be done
before installing the wind power system [1].
Kuala Lumpur is the capital of Malaysia and the city covered an area
of 94 m and population were estimated around 1.73 million in 2015 as stated
in official portal Department of Statistic Malaysia. Kuala Lumpur is one of
the fastest growing metropolitan regions in South East Asia in terms of
population and economy. Our scope location focused in the campus area of
UTM International Campus, Jalan Semarak, Kuala Lumpur. UTM
International Campus was at the center of Kuala Lumpur city used to be the
original campus of UTM on Lot 4582 Jalan Sultan Yahya Petra (Jalan
Semarak), with total land area of 47.56 acres. Kuala Lumpur and its
surrounding urban areas form the most industrialized and economically, the
fastest growing region in Malaysia. In fact, UTM KL is located near to
Malaysia cityscape tower like Petronas Twin Tower and KL Tower.
Construction of high building are showing an interest in reducing the
environmental impact of a building area and one of the approaches has been
used the power generation from solar and wind energy [2]. According to IEA
Wind 2010 annual report, wind energy will decrease the utilization of fuel
source and reduced the electricity cost. As we know, wind energy is a
renewable energy and becoming interactive because of the limitation of fossil
fuels reserve and the impacts to the environment. The sources of renewable
energy include solar, wind, wave, geothermal and bio-energy. If the resources
are well enough, they can give complete security of vitality supply. The wind
energy is one of the fastest developing renewable energy source, an advance
over the globe [3].
Moreover, renewable energy is the main part of achieving the goals
of sustainable development, energy security, and environmental protection
[4]. Currently, it has been identifying as one of the most promising clean
energy over the world because of its low cost and the other renewable energy
technologies are more expensive. Wind analysis mostly gives remarkable
details to researchers related to renewable energy studies. The use of wind
energy will reduce the emission from carbon dioxide and combustion from
the fossil fuels. Statistical analysis of the wind speed parameter and it I
essential for predict the energy conversion system result [3].
the research regarding the wind energy potential. Wind data were collected
from 10 stations which distributed all over in Malaysia (6 peninsular
Malaysia and 4 in east Malaysia, Sabah, and Sarawak) for 10 years period
(1982-1991) which the station was located at the airport, near open sea, flat
area or meteorology department. The station that has the highest potential
with a mean power density of 85.61 W/m at 10 m above sea level which is
Mersing at the seaside area [10].
Besides that, a case study of wind energy potential in Malaysia has
also been carried out by Nurhayati Rusly et. al. [11]. They published a study
which encompasses sets of data consists of wind speeds and directions
measured at 10 m height of wind sensor were gathered to form preliminary
study of the research. The data were collected from the Malaysian
Meteorological Department, Petaling Jaya at 14 locations which are Alor
Setar, Bayan Lepas, Ipoh, Kota Bharu, Kota Kinabalu, Kuala Terengganu,
Kuantan, Kuching, Labuan, Melaka, Mersing, Miri, Senai, and Subang. The
data consists of the hourly wind records over 3 years period starting from
January 2007 until December 2009. The analysis showed, the highest mean
monthly wind speed in an overall location at Mersing throughout the 3 years
observation period. The average wind speeds over peninsular Malaysia
generally mild and the average wind speed is about 2.3 m/s and the maximum
of wind speed is less than 14 m/s. Further studies should be conducted at
Mersing to locate the best point that can trigger the highest wind power
energy.
3. Methodology
The meteorological data used in this study are gathered from three stations
located in the campus area in UTM Kuala Lumpur. The data for this study
consists of hourly wind records over one year period starting from 1 March
2014 until 28 February 2015. The collected data were recorded for 10
minutes and stored in the data logger. All measurements in the wind
observation, temperature, relative humidity and solar radiation are recorded
using cup anemometer and watchdog produced by Campbell Scientific.
Figure 1 shows the location of the chosen site.
Measurement Product
WatchDog (Campbell)
WatchDog (Campbell)
Cup Anemometer (Campbell)
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