Numerical simulation of solar chimney integrated with exhaust of thermal power plant

• The heat losses within exhaust gases are an unavoidable part of operating any fuel-fired system. The flue gases still hold considerable thermal energy, which is exhausted to the atmosphere as waste heat and contributes to global warming. This paper presents a developed technique to enhance the per...

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Main Authors: Al-Kayiem, Hussain H., Yin Yin, K, Yee Sing, C
Format: Book Section
Published: WITpress 2012
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Online Access:http://eprints.utp.edu.my/8848/4/heat-transfer-2012.txt
http://library.witpress.com/pages/paperinfo.asp?PaperID=23600
http://eprints.utp.edu.my/8848/
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Summary:• The heat losses within exhaust gases are an unavoidable part of operating any fuel-fired system. The flue gases still hold considerable thermal energy, which is exhausted to the atmosphere as waste heat and contributes to global warming. This paper presents a developed technique to enhance the performance of low temperature solar thermal systems by utilization of thermal energy recovery of flue gases. A CFD model was established based on the energy, momentum and mass conservation and the state equation in 2-D, steady assumption with kepsilon for the turbulence modelling using FLUENT - version 6.2.16 software. The model simulates the thermal and fluids flow processes in an inclined modified solar chimney. The flue inlet temperature was varied as, T f g= 603K, 843K, and 983K. The simulation results were validated by comparison with experimental results obtained from a lab scale model, and acceptable agreement was gained. When the flue temperature is increased from 605K to 843K, the performance is enhanced by 75%. The interesting find is that the efficiency of heat collection tends to increase as the absorber length increases up to a certain length, and then starts to decrease. In this study, the suitable dimension for solarflue gas collector is about 2.5 m