Simulation of a Hybrid Solar-Wind Power Plant Using Different Nano Particles Concentrations for New Capital of Egypt Case Study

Adel, Bassam; Mohamed, M. H.; Aly, Mohamed; Elgendy, E.

doi:10.21608/erjsh.2019.406724

Simulation of a Hybrid Solar-Wind Power Plant Using Different Nano Particles Concentrations for New Capital of Egypt Case Study

Document Type : Research articles

Authors

¹ Mechanical Power Engineering Dept., Faculty of Engineering-Mattaria, Helwan University, Cairo, Egypt

² Mechanical Engineering Dept., College of Engineering and Islamic Architecture, Umm Al-Qura University, Makkah, Kingdom Saudi Arabia

³ Mechanical Engineering Department, College of Engineering and Technology-Cairo Campus, Arab Academy for Science, Technology and Maritime Transport (AASTMT)

10.21608/erjsh.2019.406724

Abstract

Clean renewable energy applications grow fast due to the climatic change issue. This paper investigates two different parabolic trough solar power plants using Therminol VP-1 and solar salt as heat transfer mediums respectively for the meteorological data of the New Capital of Egypt. Both investigated power plants are based on a modified model of Nevada Solar One, which showed a design efficiency and annual average efficiency of 22.17% and 15.36%, respectively in agreement with the verification model from literature review data. Simulation results shows limited error ranges up to 3.78% using Engineering Equation Solver software with the aid of Meteonorm 7.0 weather database. The study is conducted for both power plants performance using Al2O3 and Cu Nano particles volumetric concentrations up to 5%. Design conditions simulation results show that using solar salt as a heat transfer fluid improves the power generation to 45.44 MW, which is 3% higher than the Therminol VP-1. Annual performance simulation results show that solar salt power plant using 5% of Cu Nano particles gives the best performance among all of the investigated cases. Solar salt power plant using 5% of Cu Nano particles produces 103 GWh net annual power generation and average annual efficiency of 25.02%. Finally the performance of the best case scenario is investigated using the hybrid solar-wind power generation. Wind energy generation is found to produce net output energy of 1.56 GWh annually using a proposed wind turbine model from literature data.

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