EXPERMENTATIONAL DATA ANALYSIS OF CHIMNEY OPERATED SOLAR POWER PLANT

Now a days because of high amount environmental pollution, energy production based on nonconventional energy sources is on top priority. Solar energy is the most import energy source which is available in abundant but not explored much. Among the various solar technology available, solar chimney is one of the novel technology which is simple technology with very few number of parts. This paper presents an experimental investigation of a small scale model of solar chimney power plant in central India. Solar chimney power plant consist of three parts which are chimney, collector and generator. The input parameters considered in this work are chimney height, chimney diameter, collector diameter, inlet and out air flow height from collector. The density variation, air velocity, temperature distribution and mass flow rate are considered as output parameters for the analysis of flow in solar chimney. The maximum value of mass flow rate recorded inside the chimney was 16.o4kg/s. It is determined that there is much variation of temperature and mass flow rate as compared to density of air inside the solar chimney.