Fathi, Nima, et al. "Computational Assessment of Double-Inlet Collector in Solar Chimney Power Plant Systems." Volume 1B, Symposia: Fluid Measurement and Instrumentation; Fluid Dynamics of Wind Energy; Renewable and Sustainable Energy Conversion; Energy and Process Engineering; Microfluidics and Nanofluidics; Development and Applications in Computational Fluid Dynamics; DNS/LES and Hybrid RANS/LES Methods (2017).
DOI: 10.1115/fedsm2017-69424
A collector design with a second air inlet is proposed to raise the mass flow through solar chimney power plants and tested by CFD on the Manzanares prototype, with the model validated against a 1/1000 scale laboratory replica. The double-inlet layout lifts available power output by about 14%.
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