Abstract—Electricity production generated by sufficient
amount is a critical issue over the entire world. The global
warming is another critical issue. Currently, renewable energy
sources are ones of the most important solutions to deal with
these two issues. Aswan city is one of the hottest and sunniest
cities in the world. This climate conditions makes the city an
ideal place for Solar Chimney Power Plant (S.C.P.P) to
produce electrical energy. In this study, a very small model of
chimney height of 6m, collector diameter of 6m and chimney
diameter of 0.15m is installed. The mathematical model which
is based on the thermodynamic analysis of the flow inside the
SCPP, is used to predict its performance .The experimental
performance and the theoretical one–calculated from the
mathematical model- are found to be in a good agreement.
This model is used to predict the output power of a bigger
model of 20m chimney height, 30 m squared collector and 1m
chimney diameter which is still under construction. The results
show that the bigger model can produce a theoretical power of
about 600 hundreds times the smaller one. This study helps in
selecting the generator power for the bigger model.
Index Terms—Solar chimney, axial turbine, collector.
T. Meakhail, A. Rekaby and M. Fathy are with the Faculty of Energy
Engineering, Aswan, Egypt (e-mail: mina_tarek@hotmail.com,
ahrk60@yahoo.com, mfsadik@yahoo.com).
M. Bassily is with the Department of Mechanical Power Engineering,
Faculty of Engineering, Minia University, Minia, Egypt (e-mail:
bassily1@yahoo.com).
R. Harte is with the Faculty of Architecture and Civil Engineering,
University of Wuppertal, Germany (e-mail: eharte@uni-wuppertal.de).
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Cite:T. Mekhail, A. Rekaby, M. Fathy, M. Bassily, and R. Harte, "Experimental and Theoretical Performance of Mini Solar Chimney Power Plant," Journal of Clean Energy Technologies vol. 5, no. 4, pp. 294-298, 2017.
