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Comment from Denis Bonnelle about:“Solar chimney project in Arizona: an energy budget basic check”
A paper, published in October 2011, in the review “Sun & Wind energy”,
provides useful information about the La Paz solar chimney project in Arizona.
Denis Bonnelle checks the basic figures which are mentioned by EnviroMission in this article:
• the delivered design power will be 200 MW
• the plant will get a 60 percent capacity factor
• hence, the annual delivered energy should be: 1 GWh/y
• …
Read more in this paper
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The 3rd International Conference on Solar Updraft Tower Power will take place from 26 to 28 October, 2012 at Huazhong University of Science and Technology, in Wuhan, China.
The homepage of the 3rd International Conference on Solar Updraft Tower Power Technology 2012 (SUTPT 2012) is available at http://www.sutpt2012.org .
NEWS ABOUT THE CHINESE SCPP 200kW PROTOTYPE
The 200 kW solar chimney power plant collector area is 6.170 m2, the hang tower height is 53 m, the hang tower diameter is 18 m, the shelter room area is 251 m2. The greenhouse collector shelf arrangement is oval-shaped.
Download the PDF scientific publication of 0.3 Mo describing this SCPP prototype 2010 Solar hot air-flows power generation and its application in Wuhai Inner Montgolia
Article found in http://www.ilib2.com/A-ISSN~1008-8857(2010)02-0117-05.html
Bay Area in Wuhai Jinsha Inner Mongolia built a 200 kW solar hot experimental demonstration power plant.
Wuhaijinsha Bay for the construction of solar chimney power plant has unique advantages:
(1) sufficient energy sunlight for a long time.
(2) resource-rich desert, the sand may help to solve the heat storage medium.
(3) construction methods and building materials can be obtained locally, just glass building materials, cement and steel.
(4) geographical location and convenient transportation.
(5) has unique climatic conditions, is a temperate continental arid climate, dry and windy throughout the year, helping improve the air flow speed.
Therefore, Wuhai Jinsha Bay voted for the construction of desert air solar power stations.
Currently Wuhai Jinsha Bay Area voted to build a 200 kW solar chimney power station demonstration technology.
The project planning capacity of 27.5 MW, accounting for a total of desert 2.780.000 m2, a total investment of 1.38 billion Yuan.
Work will be done in three phases:
the first phase of the project in May 2009 - December 2010 year in building 200 kW demonstration solar chimney power generation, accounting for desert area 40.000 m2, investment of 1 000 million;
the second phase of the project in February 2011 - December 2011, building 2.2 MW solar chimney power plant system, accounting for desert area 220.000 m2 investment 110 million yuan;
the third phase of the project in January 2012 - December 2013, construction of 25.1 MW solar chimney power plant system, accounting for desert area of 2.510.000 m2, investment 1.26 billion Yuan.
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The CD-ROM of the Proceedings of the 2nd International Conference on Solar Chimney Power Technology, held on Bochum – Germany, 28-30 september 2010 is available for the price of 40.00 €.
Please send an email to
solarchimney@rub.de or to gisela.wegener@rub.de
Homepage: http://www.scpt2010.de/SCPT 2010 CD-Rom Table of Contents
Realization and Financial Aspects
Joerg Schlaich page 3
Concept and motivation of solar updraft power technology
Sascha Samadi, Peter Viebahn, Manfred Fischedick page 19
Solar updraft technology and its potential derived from global energy scenarios
Denis Bonnelle page 27
An Economically Realistic Growth Path towards Kilometric Chimneys
Hermann Bottenbruch, Wilfried B. Krätzig page 35
Optimum design concept for solar power plants
Johannes Pretorius, Detlev Kröger page 45
Basic theory and numerical simulation of large-scale solar updraft power plants
Wolfgang Breuer, Anselm Hüwe page 55
Solar chimney power plants – An economist’s point of view
Rudolf Bergermann, Gerhard Weinrebe page 63
Realization and Costs of Solar Updraft Towers
Hermann Bottenbruch page 69
Prosperity for all in 100 years through the Solar Chimney Power Plant
Oswald Petersen page 81
Stepwise construction and financing of SCPPs with light-weight steel towers
Alternative Energy Concepts
Piotr D. Moncarz, Bohdan M. Zakiewicz 89
Electricity Generation using the Hot Dry Rock Concept
Gerd Dibowski 95
How Cost-Effective are Solar-Thermal Power Plants?
Henner Gladen, Lars Schnatbaum-Laumann 103
The Andasol Parabolic Trough Power Plants
Friedhelm Henseler 111
Is nuclear power a bridging technology for Europe?
Structural Aspects
Jürgen Strauß 117
Optimised erection technology of giga towers
Wilfried B. Krätzig, Gerhart I. Schuéller 125
Safety, reliability and durability concepts for the design of structural solar updraft power components
Ludger Lohaus, Yared A. Abebe 135
Concrete Concepts for Solar Chimneys
Reinhard Harte, Martin Graffmann, Ralf Wörmann 145
Progress in the structural design of solar chimneys
Claudio Borri, Francesca Lupi, Enzo Marino 155
Optimum shell design of solar updraft towers
Oswald Petersen 163
The light steel tower in the SCPP
Matthias Andres, Reinhard Harte, Kirsten Stopp 173
Soil-structure-interaction on large concrete shells
Manfred Helmus, Nicole Warkus, Michael Lorek 181
Solar Chimney in Southern Africa
Construction Materials and Construction Method
Tobias Pfister, Mark Alexander Ahrens, Dieter Lehnen, Peter Mark 189
Lifetime management and design aspects of large shell structures – experiences
from cooling towers and perspectives for solar chimneys
Christian Lang, Felix Altmeyer, Joachim Weigl 197
Earthquake Behavior of Large Hyperbolical Shells –
From Natural Draft Cooling Towers to Solar Power Plant Chimneys
Wind Exposure
Hans-Jürgen Niemann, Norbert Hölscher, Wolfgang Hubert 207
Static, quasi-static and resonant Wind Effects on Solar Towers
Xinping Zhou, Fang Wang 213
Pressure distribution on solar thermal power plant chimney
in a thunderstorm downburst
Norbert Hölscher, Rüdiger Höffer, Hans-Jürgen Niemann, Markus Tschersich 223
Aerodynamic basics of wind loading patterns at the collector glass roof
Henk van Koten, Joerg Sahlmen 231
Wind-caused vibrations of solar chimneys
Thermodynamics and Machinery
Theo W. von Backström, Thomas Peter Fluri 239
Solar chimney turbine layout and design considerations
Marco Aurélio dos Santos Bernardes 247
Thermal Semiconductors as Power Control Strategy for Solar Chimney Power Plants
Salah Larbi, Amor Bourdjar, Toufik Chergui 257
Contribution to the thermo-fluid aspect analysis in solar chimney power plants
Michael Kuhn, Theo W. von Backström and Thomas Peter Fluri 267
The influence of tip clearance effects on the performance of solar chimney turbines
Christos D. Papageorgiou, Michael Psalidas, Petros Katopodis 275
Solar chimney technology without solar collectors
Reccab M. Ochieng and Frederick N. Onyango 283
The Effect of Collector Temperatures on Power Output of Solar Updraft Plants
Glass Collector
Jürgen Kuck, Claudia Ziller, Lars Schnatbaum-Laumann, Henner Gladen 293
Methodical approach to design the solar collector of a solar chimney power plant
Jens Schneider, Natascha Grammou, Jonas Kleuderlein 301
Optimization of the structural capacity and thermal behavior of a SCPP glass roof
Renaud de Richter, Sylvain Caillol page 311
Can airflow and radiation under the collector glass contribute to SCPPs’ profitability?
Volker Wittwer, Lothar Herlitze, Hansjörg Weis 319
High-transparent glass panes with multifunctional coatings
Rüdiger Höffer, Cornelia Wevers, Volkmar Görnandt 325
Transport and deposition of dust on the collector surface
Green Tower
André Thomashausen 339
GreenTower in world politics – How it solves shortages in power, fuel, food and water and reduces conflict potentials
Wolf-Walter Stinnes 345
Humus as the backbone of GreenTower revenues – Green revolution in agriculture,
soil rehabilitation, forestry, desert cultivation and CO2 sequestration
Markus Hummel 355
Can power from updraft and GreenTowers already compete against Conventional technologies? A profitability and risk analysis
Wolfgang Ademes 361
Greentower with energy storage – Optimum base and peak load power station
Authors page 369
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Cover page of SCPT 2010 Proceedings, Ruhr University Bochum 28-30 september 2010
A new book of which 7 chapters out of 21 deal with solar chimneys or variants of the same concept has been published in 2010 at Ellipses editor, title: "21 unusual renewable energies for the 21st century" (in French “21 énergies renouvelables insolites pour le 21ème siècle”, "21 Ungewöhnliche Erneuerbaren Energien für das 21. Jahrhundert"; "21 Energías renovables INSÓLITAS para el sieglo 21",), authors Denis Bonnelle and Renaud de Richter. 17.10€ on Amazon or on other online bookshops.
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ISBN-10: 9782729854072
ISBN-13: 978-2729854072
ASIN: 272985407X
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