Numerical analysis on the performance of a small-scale solar chimney power plant for different geometrical parameters

Teng, Meng Xian (2021) Numerical analysis on the performance of a small-scale solar chimney power plant for different geometrical parameters. Project Report. Universiti Teknikal Malaysia Melaka, Melaka, Malaysia. (Submitted)

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Abstract

With the increasing demand of energy each year, Solar chimney power plant (SCPP) is considered as one of the renewable energy power plant that may replace the conventional renewable energy source such as photovoltaic (PV) cell and fossil fuel when build it right solving the energy crisis of the world. This project generally be focusing on determine the optimum size of a SCPP by investigating different geometrical parameters of SCPP using Computational Fluid Dynamics (CPD) by simulating the flow in the SCPP. The different parameters involved in this study are the chimney's height, chimney's diameter and the shape of the solar collector of SCPP. The simulation is done in Three-dimensional (3D) and a validation was made to verify the result. From the simulation, the temperature and velocity of the SCPP was examined and it is found that the higher chimney height, smaller diameter of chimney and using square collector will help to increase the performance of SCPP.

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