Development Of Future Model Of Concentrating Solar Tower (CST) In Tropical Climate

Muhammad Zulfattah, Zakaria (2014) Development Of Future Model Of Concentrating Solar Tower (CST) In Tropical Climate. Project Report. UTeM, Melaka, Malaysia. (Submitted)

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Abstract

Concentrating solar tower (CST) is one of the most potential technologies in extracting solar energy. Thermal efficiency of CST is high and suitable to be implemented in a tropical climate country. Malaysia is a tropical climate country with the Direct Normal Irradiation (DNI) around 1500-2000 W/m2 which is a good value for CST. The scope of the research will cover collecting the DNI data of several highly irradiated sites, land availability of the places, topography, water source, transmission lines from Tenaga Nasional Berhad (TNB), and finally proposing the building of the CST to the Ministry of Energy and Green Technology of Malaysia or KeTTHa. As the task including long time on-site measurement packed with cloud movement simulation a very precise measurement could be expected. A near true value of power output could be expected and a model of the CST for that site will be built. This will assist engineers at the earliest stage in establishing the most advanced manufacturing technology in the green technology sector. We aim to establish a novel information and data to provide the first step towards constructing the solar thermal power plant. This stage is very important as it reveals the true potential and opens the new side of renewable energy of Malaysia. Even though Concentrating Solar Tower (CST) has been developed a decade ago, but in South East Asia not a single unit has been built despite a vast solar irradiation. Many researches around Malaysia do realize the potential of building the solar tower, but no serious measurements are taken so far. This project will benefit Universiti Teknikal Malaysia Melaka by picking up a promising technology at its earliest stage. Further the results are expected to be used as the evidences and references by the Ministry of Energy, Green Technology and Water, related departments, universities and researchers interested in solar energy technology. The development of CST in Malaysia will create new field of study and improve the economy. Furthermore, CST which emits no hazardous gases and consumes no fossil fuels during operation is a very lucrative business.

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