| Description |
1 online resource (110 pages) : illustrations |
| Series |
Applied mechanics and materials, 1660-9336 ; volume 283 |
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Applied mechanics and materials ; v. 283.
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| Contents |
Solar Updraft Tower Power Technology; Preface and Organizing Committee; Table of Contents; Chapter 1: Thermodynamics; Thermodynamic Behaviour of the Solar Updraft Tower: A Parametric Model for System Sizing; The Impact Analysis of Air Compressibility in Solar Chimney Power Station; A Compressible Transient Model of the Solar Chimney and Heat Collector; Chapter 2: Structural Aspects; Optimization of Solar Updraft Chimneys by Nonlinear Response Analysis; Design of Solar Towers for Extreme Storm Conditions and for Vortex Excitation |
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Construction Analysis of the Chimney of Solar Thermal Power StationTime-Varying Pressure Distribution on Solar Updraft Tower (an Axisymmetric Structure) Induced by a Translating Downburst; Chapter 3: Review; A Realistic Growth Path for Solar Wind Power; Chapter 4: Hybrid or Alternative Energy Concepts; Urban Solar Updraft Tower Integrated with Hi-Rise Building -- Case Study of Wuhan New Energy Institute Headquarter; Energy from Convective Vortices; Effects of Non-Uniform Hot Junction Temperature Distribution on the Outputs of Thermoelectric Power Generation System |
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The Studies of Optimal Arranging of the Solar Photovoltaic Battery Array and Optimal Matching of Power System for a Parking GarageKeywords Index; Authors Index |
| Summary |
The solar updraft tower (also: Solar Chimney) power technology (SUTPT) is simple, robust, sustainable, and a long lasting technology, producing electric power from solar radiation with low maintenance cost and no cooling water. A SUTPT plant will provide electric power over many decades. The feasibility of the SUTPT has been demonstrated successfully by the famous Manzanares Prototype and more recently by a number of project studies. The main goal of the special collection was to gather the current knowledge in thermodynamics, fluid-mechanics, structural engineering, as well as comparison of hybrid or alternative energy concepts. The associated discussions will facilitate exchanges of new ideas and provide a guide for future research directions in the SUTPT area. The 12 papers selected for the October 2012 conference present advances inmodeling the thermodynamics, fluid mechanics, and structural engineering ofsolar updraft towers for producing electric power from solar radiation withminimal maintenance and no cooling water. Two case studies from Chinadescribe a high-rise building design incorporating a solar updraft tower andthe optimal arrangement of solar panels and a battery array for powering aparking garage. Plans for an atmospheric vortex engine propose a process forcapturing the mechanical energy produced during upward heat convection |
| Bibliography |
Includes bibliographical references and index |
| Notes |
Online resource; title from PDF title page (ebrary, viewed October 31, 2013) |
| Subject |
Solar energy -- Congresses
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Thermodynamics -- Congresses
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TECHNOLOGY & ENGINEERING -- Mechanical.
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Solar energy
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Thermodynamics
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| Genre/Form |
Conference papers and proceedings
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| Form |
Electronic book
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| Author |
Zhou, Xinping
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Zhu, Hongping
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| ISBN |
9783038260028 |
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3038260029 |
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