Solar Updraft Tower Research Proposal
This is the final for a physics work in cooperation with a colleague and supervised by Dr. Eduard Moses from the Technion. This work was submitted as a School Final Project in Research Physics for 5 points.
The main goal of the research will be to mathematically and computationally analyse and simulate a full-scale Solar Updraft Tower Power Plant, accompanied by an empirical experiment with a smaller model.
General Structure
The general design of a solar updraft power consists of a large green house like body, which is dyed black to help the air heat efficiently,
and a large chimney tower, with a wind turbine at the top of it. To start, the air inside the greenhouse like body is heated using direct sunlight.
Then, the air begins to travel towards the middle of the tower, resulting in a hot air updraft towards the chimney.
The airflow drives the wind turbines that are shrouded and therefore yield more power, that are placed at the very top of the chimney and produce electricity.
The solar updraft tower is unique since it can be operated with virtually no carbon footprint, fuel consumption, or waste production.
It generates clean, cost effective and efficient electrical power without damaging effects. The tower can work year-round, in almost any weather conditions, assuming there is sunlight.
Final Work
Our work has been summarised in a PDF document containing all of the mathematics and computational analyses performed.
You can download the PDF file here:
