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Experimental study of a micro-scale sloped solar chimney power plant

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Solar chimney power plants (SCPP) are structures that have the potential to generate a significant amount of electrical energy without harming the nature. Within the scope of this study, a micro-scale sloped solar chimney power plant (MSSCPP) experimental setup with a chimney of 8 m height and a sloped collector of 6.4 m diameter was designed and constructed. The air temperature in the collector and the velocity of the air in the chimney were recorded and analyzed in detail. The results obtained from the experiments show that the effect of solar radiation on the temperature and velocity of the air is remarkable. The effect of solar radiation on the efficiency of sloped collector found to be 14.2 %. In addition, although the dimensions of the experimental setup are small, the difference between temperatures at the inlet and outlet of sloped collector are increasing up to 2.4 °C and air velocity at the inlet of the chimney reaches 2.2 m/s. Large-scale sloped solar chimney power plants (SSCPP) can be used to help meet the electricity demand, especially in rural areas with natural slopes.

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This work was supported by Konya Technical University Coordinatorship of Scientific Research Projects (No. 18101010).

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    Muhammed Huseyin Guzel & Recep Emre Unal

  2. Faculty of Engineering and Natural Science, Konya Technical University, Konya, Turkey

    Faruk Kose

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Muhammed Huseyin Guzel received the B.S. degree from the Mechanical Engineering Department, Selcuk University, Konya, Turkey in 2010, and the M.S. degree from Mechanical Engineering, Konya Technical University, Konya, Turkey in 2019, respectively. He currently continues Ph.D. education at Konya Technical University. Since 2016, he has been working as a lecturer in Technical Sciences Vocational School of Konya Technical University. His research interests include solar chimney, fuzzy logic, and composite materials.

Recep Emre Unal received the B.S. degree from the Mechanical Engineering Department, Selcuk University, Konya, Turkey in 2010, and the M.S. degree from Mechanical Engineering, Konya Technical University, Konya, Turkey in 2019, respectively. He worked as an engineer in the field of natural gas in a private company between 2010 and 2017. Since 2017, he has been working as a lecturer in Technical Sciences Vocational School of Konya Technical University. His research interests include wind energy, wind turbine, solar energy, and solar chimneys.

Faruk Kose received the B.S., M.S. and Ph.D. degrees from the Mechanical Engineering Department, Selcuk University, Konya, Turkey in 1985, 1987 and 1996, respectively. Currently, he works as an Associate Professor in Mechanical Engineering Department, Faculty of Engineering and Natural Science at Konya Technical University. His main research interests are including energy, renewable energy, wind energy, solar energy, water, and wind turbine.

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Guzel, M.H., Unal, R.E. & Kose, F. Experimental study of a micro-scale sloped solar chimney power plant. J Mech Sci Technol 35, 5773–5779 (2021). https://doi.org/10.1007/s12206-021-1146-3

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