Integration of Helix Wind and Archimedes Screw Turbines for Renewable Energy Generation from Wind and Rainwater

The use of wind energy has grown drastically over recent years. As wind can occasionally be accompanied by rainfall and storms, the combined harvesting of wind energy and rainwater can be a viable and efficient solution. This work proposes a novel design to collect wind and water flow energy to supply an elementary school building in the Al Zaatari refugee camp in Jordan with electricity. The design integrates a helix vertical axis wind turbine (V A WT) and an Archimedes screw turbine. This work showed how to utilize the helix wind turbine to generate energy from the wind movement and how the rainwater is collected via gutters to pour into the integrated Archimedes screw water turbine and further generate more power. Results showed that the total average wind energy production per year was 12.96 MWh, and the total average energy production from rainwater was 16.35 kWh, using a 30-unit system at the school.