Abstract

A solar chimney power plant consists of a large greenhouse-type collector surrounding a tall chimney. The air, heated within the collector, passes through an inlet guide vane (IGV) cascade and then through a transition section to a turbine that powers a generator. The transition section contains the turbine inlet guide vanes that support the whole chimney and guides the flow entering the turbine. There is a surge in the use of the solar chimney power plant in the recent years which accomplishes the task of converting solar energy into kinetic energy. The existing models are sufficient to accurately describe the mechanism and evaluate the performance of a solar chimney power plant system, in which the effects of various parameters on the relative static pressure, driving force, power output and efficiency. This paper aims at the segregation of the different mathematical models presented by the various researches, which are developed to evaluate the performance of solar chimney power plant, which will help the budding researcher to develop their own model as well as to evaluate the performance of solar chimney power plant.