The effect of chimney entrance slope and constricted section on the performance of solar chimney power plants: A CFD approach
The depletion of hydrocarbon resources and climate change are major global issues which need to be solved urgently. Sun is a clean, inexhaustible, sustainable energy source which has the capacity to meet the future energy demands. Solar chimney power plants (SCPPs) with a simple design are competent...
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| description | The depletion of hydrocarbon resources and climate change are major global issues which need to be solved urgently. Sun is a clean, inexhaustible, sustainable energy source which has the capacity to meet the future energy demands. Solar chimney power plants (SCPPs) with a simple design are competent to generate large-scale electricity. Primary components of SCPP are the chimney, turbine, and collector. In this work, impact of the chimney entrance slope and narrowed section on performance of SCPP is scrutinized. A computational fluid dynamics model (CFD) is constructed based on Manzanares plant with a chimney height (H) of 194.6 m via ANSYS FLUENT. The novel configurations are generated by changing the chimney inlet slope, θ (45°-85°) and radius of the constricted section with a fixed height (H/28). The findings demonstrate that a decrease in the slope with the constricted section improves the velocity, power and turbine pressure drop. The highest velocity of 17.9 m/s is gained for the configuration with θ = 85° compared to that of 14.3 m/s obtained for the base (θ = 45°) at 1000 W/m2. This configuration enhances power output to 60.4 kW with a rise of 31.3% in comparison to the base case at 1000 W/m2. |
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| spelling | doaj-art-790ca5808f8641a5b911d1ce6f2871b22025-02-05T10:46:24ZengEDP SciencesE3S Web of Conferences2267-12422025-01-016010000310.1051/e3sconf/202560100003e3sconf_icegc2024_00003The effect of chimney entrance slope and constricted section on the performance of solar chimney power plants: A CFD approachKaplan Mahmut0Gaziantep UniversityThe depletion of hydrocarbon resources and climate change are major global issues which need to be solved urgently. Sun is a clean, inexhaustible, sustainable energy source which has the capacity to meet the future energy demands. Solar chimney power plants (SCPPs) with a simple design are competent to generate large-scale electricity. Primary components of SCPP are the chimney, turbine, and collector. In this work, impact of the chimney entrance slope and narrowed section on performance of SCPP is scrutinized. A computational fluid dynamics model (CFD) is constructed based on Manzanares plant with a chimney height (H) of 194.6 m via ANSYS FLUENT. The novel configurations are generated by changing the chimney inlet slope, θ (45°-85°) and radius of the constricted section with a fixed height (H/28). The findings demonstrate that a decrease in the slope with the constricted section improves the velocity, power and turbine pressure drop. The highest velocity of 17.9 m/s is gained for the configuration with θ = 85° compared to that of 14.3 m/s obtained for the base (θ = 45°) at 1000 W/m2. This configuration enhances power output to 60.4 kW with a rise of 31.3% in comparison to the base case at 1000 W/m2.https://www.e3s-conferences.org/articles/e3sconf/pdf/2025/01/e3sconf_icegc2024_00003.pdf |
| spellingShingle | Kaplan Mahmut The effect of chimney entrance slope and constricted section on the performance of solar chimney power plants: A CFD approach E3S Web of Conferences |
| title | The effect of chimney entrance slope and constricted section on the performance of solar chimney power plants: A CFD approach |
| title_full | The effect of chimney entrance slope and constricted section on the performance of solar chimney power plants: A CFD approach |
| title_fullStr | The effect of chimney entrance slope and constricted section on the performance of solar chimney power plants: A CFD approach |
| title_full_unstemmed | The effect of chimney entrance slope and constricted section on the performance of solar chimney power plants: A CFD approach |
| title_short | The effect of chimney entrance slope and constricted section on the performance of solar chimney power plants: A CFD approach |
| title_sort | effect of chimney entrance slope and constricted section on the performance of solar chimney power plants a cfd approach |
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