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The exlpoitation of renewable energy is growing worldwide in several applications. The vortex motor is one of the new energy concepts that create artificial vortices in the airflow to increase the turbine rotational speed for the production of electrical energy. The objective of this work is the prediction of the behavior of a vortex tower model and the analysis of the characteristics of the air flow using Relap5 code, in addition, a parametric study is performed to find out the effect of inlet openings number on the performance of the tower. A model of the tower is developed and validated using numerical and experimental results disposable in the literature, likewise by an analytical calculation using the equations of mass conservation. Simulation results showed that this configuration of vortex tower is able to generate airflow with a maximum velocity of 5.5411 m/s at a height of 0.56 m from the base. Therefore, a turbine can be attached here to exploit the airflow maximum kinetic energy. Furthermore, the results also showed that a clear tendency of the maximum airflow velocity increases by 87% when the number of air inlet openings is varied from 1 to 8.
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Cheridi, A.L.D., Bouaam, A., Dadda, A., Dahia, A. (2023). Influence of Geometric Parameters on the Performance of a Vortex Type Cooling Tower. In: Hatti, M. (eds) Advanced Computational Techniques for Renewable Energy Systems. IC-AIRES 2022. Lecture Notes in Networks and Systems, vol 591. Springer, Cham. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-031-21216-1_58
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