TY - GEN
T1 - Experimental solar chimney data with analytical model prediction
AU - Hamdan, Mohammad O.
AU - Rabbata, Obada
PY - 2012
Y1 - 2012
N2 - The paper presents an experimental data that is collected for a solar chimney draft tower that is constructed in AlAin in United Arab Emirates. The solar chimney data are collected over the period of three days on December 2011. The size of the tested chimney is 8 m high with 100 m2 collector area. The collected data include air inlet temperature, air temperature before entering the chimney, the solar flux inside/outside the collector, and wind speed inside the chimney. The collected data are compared against an analytical model which shows very good agreement with the experimental data. The mathematical thermal model is created under the assumption of steady airflow with modified Bernoulli equation, buoyancy effect and ideal gas equation. The developed analytical model was used to evaluate the effect of geometric parameters on the solar plant power generation. The results show that the chimney height, the collector radius, the solar irradiance, and the turbine head are essential parameters for the design of solar chimneys.
AB - The paper presents an experimental data that is collected for a solar chimney draft tower that is constructed in AlAin in United Arab Emirates. The solar chimney data are collected over the period of three days on December 2011. The size of the tested chimney is 8 m high with 100 m2 collector area. The collected data include air inlet temperature, air temperature before entering the chimney, the solar flux inside/outside the collector, and wind speed inside the chimney. The collected data are compared against an analytical model which shows very good agreement with the experimental data. The mathematical thermal model is created under the assumption of steady airflow with modified Bernoulli equation, buoyancy effect and ideal gas equation. The developed analytical model was used to evaluate the effect of geometric parameters on the solar plant power generation. The results show that the chimney height, the collector radius, the solar irradiance, and the turbine head are essential parameters for the design of solar chimneys.
KW - Buoyancy effect
KW - Draft tower
KW - Renewable energy.
KW - Solar chimney
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M3 - Conference contribution
AN - SCOPUS:84871573191
SN - 9781622760923
T3 - World Renewable Energy Forum, WREF 2012, Including World Renewable Energy Congress XII and Colorado Renewable Energy Society (CRES) Annual Conferen
SP - 327
EP - 332
BT - World Renewable Energy Forum, WREF 2012, Including World Renewable Energy Congress XII and Colorado Renewable Energy Society (CRES) Annual Conference
T2 - World Renewable Energy Forum, WREF 2012, Including World Renewable Energy Congress XII and Colorado Renewable Energy Society (CRES) Annual Conference
Y2 - 13 May 2012 through 17 May 2012
ER -
