Thermic Power Oman


My Thermic Power Plant is located in the desert of the Oman, creating perfect conditions for gaining solar energy throughout the whole year.

Decisive for the plant’s output is the collector’s diameter (4.8km) as well as the height of the chimney (660m). To increase the latter without constructional means, I followed the ideas of some scientists, to produce an artificial vortex which creates a “chimney out of air” that rises above the constructed chimney and by that increases the amount of energy produced by the plant.
To achieve that, the air flows tangential into the chimney. Additionally the construction of the chimney supports the air-rotation on its way up.

Planning the tower I separated the construction and the hull. Outside there is an effective scaffold of inclined, straight steel-bars. The construction is adopted from the Russian engineer Suchov. Its advantages are: First, it follows the parabolic course of the wind load. Second, it widens up towards the top which allows clinging to the given form of the chimney. Third, for it only consists of straight bars, the construction as well as the ablation of force is at optimum. The bars have a diameter of 2m.
To stabilize the cross-section of the construction, the tower is supported by four inner spirals. They hold the pre-tightened membranes, which form the chimney. This chimney only consists of towing steel-ropes and those high-strength fibreglass membranes. For there are no compressive forces I can keep the construction very light.


To stock up the collector, which works like a giant greenhouse, on a construction as light as possible, I chose inflatable air-cushions. Sunlight can penetrate even better than through glass and it weighs just 600 g/m². Thanks to that the supporting construction can be very economical which gives less resistance to the flowing air.


Jan Missfeldt
Hubertusstrasse 56
D-52064 Aachen
M: +49 [0] 176 20744406
E : jan.missfeldt@gmx.de


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