Eficiência energética em aeroportos contribuições da geração solar fotovoltaica

Abstract

With the significant increase of passengers on commercial flights last years, the Brazilian airports needed to increase their capacity, with the challenge of maintaining the comfort and flight operations at full time. To enable these services, the use of powerful conditioning equipments is required, able to make it comfortable, with adequate lighting and flight systems in operation. Despite the predictions of a global energy crisis, this requires very high energy consumption at airports, which are usually built in open and sunny locations. Combining existing tools for energy efficiency , such as photovoltaic panels, and the recent governmental policies to encourage energy generation, passenger terminals appear as a great potential for using solar energy, with consequent reduction of public grid’s energy consumption, also reducing energy costs. In this study, were analyzed the current energy demands and the possible contribution of photovoltaic generation at the passenger terminal from Salgado Filho International Airport in Porto Alegre-RS. The methodology starts by studying the architectural building plans to check for potential photovoltaic generation and the survey data of local electricity demand and the availability of solar radiation, reaching conclusions about market technologies and photovoltaic generation systems. Hopefully, at the end of the study, finds the best options for solar power generation, identifying the potential for passenger terminals installation, aiming at obtaining financial returns and helps to decrease the load provided by the energy distributor by contributing with energy from renewable sources.