TY - JOUR A1 - Mandal, Dipak Kumar A1 - Biswas, Nirmalendu A1 - Manna, Nirmal K A1 - Benim, Ali Cemal T1 - Impact of chimney divergence and sloped absorber on energy efficacy of a solar chimney power plant (SCPP) JF - Ain Shams Engineering Journal N2 - A numerical study is carried out meticulously to scrutinize the impact of different shapes of chimneys like circular (outer dia, dc), convergent (outer dia, 0.5dc), divergent (outer dia, 1.5dc), sudden contraction (outer dia, 0.5dc), and sudden expansion (outer dia, 1.5dc) on the performance of an SCPP. Furthermore, the parametric impact with different chimney divergence angles (CDA, ϕ), and ground absorber slope angle (GSA, γ) on the SCPP performance is also scrutinized. Optimum divergence angle (ϕ=+0.75◦) enhances the power generation up to ~ 47% (76 kW) with a horizontal ground absorber surface. An increase or decrease in CDA lessens the power generation. With a sloped ground absorber angle γ=0.6◦, the gain in power generation is 60% (82 kW). The study of combination of ground sloped absorber (γ=0.6◦) and divergent chimney (ϕ=+0.75◦) shows enhancement of the power generation upto 80% (92 kW) more than the classical Manzaranes plant. KW - Solar chimney power plant (SCPP) KW - Chimney divergence angle KW - Sloped absorber surface KW - Power generation KW - Efficiency KW - Regression analysis KW - DEAL KW - HSD Publikationsfonds KW - DFG Publikationskosten Y1 - 2024 U6 - http://nbn-resolving.de/urn/resolver.pl?urn:nbn:de:hbz:due62-opus-42410 SN - 2090-4495 N1 - Datenverfügbarkeitserklärung: Daten, die die Ergebnisse dieser wissenschaftlichen Publikation stützen, sind auf begründete Anfrage bei dem*der korrespondierenden Autor*in erhältlich. PB - Elsevier ER - TY - JOUR A1 - Biswas, Nirmalendu A1 - Mandal, Dipak Kumar A1 - Manna, Nirmal K. A1 - Benim, Ali Cemal T1 - Magneto-hydrothermal triple-convection in a W-shaped porous cavity containing oxytactic bacteria JF - scientific reports N2 - Bioconvective heat and mass transport phenomena have recently been the subject of interest in diverse fields of applications pertaining to the motion of fluids and their thermophysical properties. The transport processes in a system involving triple convective phenomena, irregular geometry, and boundary conditions constitute a complex phenomenon. This work aims to explore the mixed thermo-bioconvection of magnetically susceptible fluid containing copper nanoparticles and oxytactic bacteria in a novel W-shaped porous cavity. The buoyant convention is generated due to the isothermal heating at the wavy bottom wall, whereas the mixed convection is induced due to the shearing motion of the top-cooled sliding wall. Furthermore, the bioconvection is induced due to the manifestation of oxytactic bacteria or organisms. The inclined sidewalls are insulated. The geometry is packed with water based Cu nanoparticle mixed porous structure, which is subjected to a magnetizing field acted horizontally. The complex transport equations are transformed into nondimensional forms, which are then computed using the finite volume-based developed code. The coupled triple-convective flow physics are explored for a wide range of involved controlling parameters, which could provide helpful insight to the system designer for its proper operation. The shape of geometry can be considered one of the important parameters to control the heat and mass transport phenomena. In general, the influence of amplitude (δ) is more compared to the waviness number (m) of the undulations. The magnitude of heat (Nu) and mass (Sh) transfer rate for the W-shaped cavity is high compared to conventional square and trapezoidal-shaped cavities. The output of the analysis could be very helpful for the designer for modeling devices operating on nanotechnology-based bioconvection, microbial fuel cells, and others. KW - DOAJ Y1 - 2022 U6 - http://nbn-resolving.de/urn/resolver.pl?urn:nbn:de:hbz:due62-opus-40041 SN - 2045-2322 VL - 12 PB - Springer Nature ER -