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Solar Chimney Power Plants – Developments and Advancements

Authors: Marco Aurlio dos Santos Bernardes;

Solar Chimney Power Plants – Developments and Advancements

Abstract

A wide range of existing power technologies can make use of the solar energy reaching Earth. Basically, all those ways can be divided into two basic categories: transformed for use elsewhere or utilized directly – direct – and involving more than one transformation to reach a usable form – indirect. The Solar Chimney Power Plant (SCPP) is part of the solar thermal group of indirect solar conversion technologies. More specifically, a natural phenomenon concerning the utilization of the thermal solar energy involves the earth surface heating and consequently the adjacent air heating by the sun light. This warm air expands causing an upward buoyancy force promoting the flow of air that composes the earth atmosphere. The amount of energy available due to the upward buoyancy force associated with the planet revolution is so vast that can generate catastrophic tropical cyclones with disastrous consequences. From another standpoint, such phenomenon can be enhanced and used in benefit of the human well-being. In this way, the SCPP is a device developed with the purpose to take advantage of such buoyancy streams converting them into electricity. For that, a greenhouse – the collector – is used to improve the air heating process, a tall tube – the chimney – promotes the connection between the warm air nearby the surface and the fresh air present in higher atmosphere layers and a system to convert the kinetic energy into electricity – the generator-turbine system (Fig. 1).

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