太阳能热气流发电流道优化分析

Analysis on the optimization geometry of the solar chimney power plant systems

以西班牙太阳能热气流电站为原型进行数值模拟,得出了太阳能烟囱内的速度场、压力场和温度场分布;研究了集热棚坡度、分流板高度和弧度等因素对系统发电性能及涡轮机位置的影响。研究结果表明:集热棚坡度增加时,烟囱的抽吸作用增强,空气流速增加,有利于提高太阳能热气流发电的输出功率;当集热棚坡度约为0.5°时,其作用最为明显,对于提高系统发电性能最为有利;增加分流板有利于气流发电站的优化,当分流板高度略微高于集热棚高度时,优化效果较好;分流板弧度越小,越有利于系统的优化;集热棚坡度对涡轮机位置有影响,改变分流板的几何因素对涡轮机位置没有影响。

An Spanish solar chimney power plant was considered as a prototype to establish a numerical simulation in this paper, and the distribution of velocity, pressure and temperature fields in the solar chimney were derived; Thereby the impact of changing of geometric factors, which included the slope of the collector shed, the height and radians of the shunt board and so on, on the system power performance and the location of turbine were studied. Research results showed that, as the slope of the collector shed beginning to increase, the drawing action of the chimney increased and the velocity of air enhanced, which would help to improve the generator output of solar chimney; When the collector shed gradient increased to about 0.5 degrees, the strengthening of chimney drawing was the most obvious, which was the most advantageous for improving the system＇s power generation performance; The airflow power station performed better while increasing the number of manifold; When the manifold height was slightly higher than that of the collector shed, the system performed well; The slighter the curvature of manifold, the better the system presented. The slope of the collector shed affects location of the turbine, but the turbine position does not change with the geometric factors of manifold.