Salt gradient solar ponds— upper convecting zone

L.B. Mullett

Renewable Energy, 1991, vol. 1, issue 1, 49-54

Abstract: It is shown that density plumes fall from the surface of a pond cooled by evaporation, very much as plumes rise from a heated base. Such falling plumes are responsible for the generation and growth of an upper convecting zone in laboratory models, where it becomes a significant feature. But since the vertical extent of such plumes is likely to be of the order of 0.1 m or less, the phenomenon may be of little detriment in actual solar ponds where, in any case, surface evaporation is needed to remove excess heat.

Date: 1991
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DOI: 10.1016/0960-1481(91)90102-U

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