A Comparative Study of CFD Models of a Real Wind Turbine in Solar Chimney Power Plants

Abstract

A solar chimney power plant consists of four main parts, a solar collector, a chimney, an energy storage layer, and a wind turbine. So far, several investigations on the performance of the solar chimney power plant have been conducted. Among them, different approaches have been applied to model the turbine inside the system. In particular, a real wind turbine coupled to the system was simulated using computational fluid dynamics (CFD) in three investigations.

Performance Enhancement of the Basic Solar Chimney Power Plant Integrated with an Adsorption Cooling System with Heat Recovery from the Condenser

“…Following the construction of the initial solar chimney power plant prototype in Manzanares, Spain, a multitude of studies have been undertaken with the aim of enhancing the operational efficiency of solar updraft tower power plants [36]. Efforts were made by researchers to enhance the performance of conventional standalone solar chimney power plant systems by modifying the system components' design [37][38][39][40][41] and optimizing the system parameters [42,43]. The conversion efficiency of a solar updraft tower power plant is influenced by several geometric parameters [44,45].…”

Economic Study of Solar Chimney Power-Water Distillation Plant (SCPWDP)

“…Several attempts [9][10][11][12][13][14][15] around the world have been made to introduce various modifications to the conventional solar chimney. The focus was to enhance its performance, expand its application, or develop a new simulation model as detailed in Table 1.…”