Abstract:
The solar chimney Power plant system (SCPPS) is a simple solar thermal power plant
that is capable of converting solar energy into thermal energy in the solar collector. In the second
stage, the generated thermal energy is converted into kinetic energy in the chimney and ultimately
into electric energy using a combination of a wind turbine and a generator. The purpose of this
study is to conduct a more detailed numerical analysis of a collector of the SCPPS. A mathematical
model based on the Navier–Stokes, continuity and energy equations was developed to describe the
solar chimney power plant collector mechanism in detail. The governing equations were solved
numerically using an iterative technique.The temperature, velocity and pressure distributions in the
solar collector are illustrated for the city of ‘Adrar’ – Algeria – to examine the effect of varying
ambient temperature and solar radiation on the flow in the collector. Reasonably good quantitative
agreement was obtained between the experimental data of the Manzanares prototype and both the
numerical results
