Heat Storage Performance Analysis of Solar Chimney Power Plant System

Abstract:

Solar chimney power plant which can realize continuous power generation is a potential power generation technology. Based on the heat transfer theory and hydrodynamics theory, a comprehensive heat transfer and flow model of solar chimney power plant was proposed, and the characteristics of unsteady temperature field and flow field of the system were analyzed. With Manzanares solar chimney power plant as the geometric prototype, the performance of plant generation output and generation stability were studied in condition of different thickness of heat storage layer, different specific heat capacity and thermal conductivity of heat storage medium. The numerical stimulation results showed that above three factors significantly affected the power generation output and generation stability. Thus, the optimization of the three factors was achieved in this paper, which provides the basis for the solar chimney heat storage system design.

• Periodical: Applied Mechanics and Materials (Volume 472)
• Pages: 276-285
• DOI: https://doi.org/10.4028/www.scientific.net/AMM.472.276
• Online since: January 2014
• Authors: Hong Jing Guo, Jian Lan Li, Shu Hong Huang
• Keywords: Heat Storage Layer, Optimization, Performance Analysis, Solar Chimney Power Plant

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