Solar Chimney Power Plant Installed in Aswan

What is it about?

: Although solar chimney power plant (SCPP) has a promising potential to convert the solar energy to electric power, greater efforts are needed to ensure its successful commercialization on large scale. The main obstacles for SCPP to make it into large scale applications are its efficiency, bulk size, dependency on solar irradiation. The present paper gives a comprehensive study on integration the Internet-of-Things (IoT) as novel technique to monitor and hence improve its performance. A small scale solar chimney power plant is designed and constructed specifically for this purpose in Aswan, Egypt. The instantaneous performance parameters (temperature, solar intensity, wind speed, open circuit voltage, power, etc.) were measured and further processed using IoT.

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Why is it important?

The results show that IoT has a promising potential to enhance the performance of the system by providing a complete picture of the whole measurements. This is considered as a step forward for enhancing the technologies which will ensure the success of large scale SCPP in the real world.