Haythem Nasraoui; Zied Driss; Hédi Kchaou · 10.1016/j.renene.2019.07.062 https://doi.org/10.1016/j.renene.2019.07.062
Renewable Energy
Novel collector design for enhancing the performance of solar chimney power plant Haythem Nasraoui; Zied Driss; Hedi Kchaou For solar chimney power plants, a collector with two air passes running in opposite directions is proposed and compared by CFD against a standard collector and a two-pass design with co-current flow, with validation on a prototype in Sfax, Tunisia. The opposing-flow arrangement improves collector efficiency by about 28% over the standard one, and the influence of the upper roof height is also examined.
Numerical / CFD
Solar chimney power plant
2019
Renewable Energy
no
2019-07-18 12:00:00 00002794
novel collector design for enhancing the performance of solar chimney power plant
2019
Renewable Energy
Haythem Nasraoui; Zied Driss; Hédi Kchaou
10.1016/j.renene.2019.07.062
Summary
For solar chimney power plants, a collector with two air passes running in opposite directions is proposed and compared by CFD against a standard collector and a two-pass design with co-current flow, with validation on a prototype in Sfax, Tunisia. The opposing-flow arrangement improves collector efficiency by about 28% over the standard one, and the influence of the upper roof height is also examined.
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