2012 International Conference on

About SUTPT 2012

The 3rd International Conference on Solar Updraft Tower Power Technology 2012(SUTPT 2012) will take place in Wuhan, China, October 26-28, 2012.

Solar Updraft Tower (also: Solar Chimney) Power Plants (SUTPPs) produce electric power from solar radiation. The working principle is simple: A huge tower in an arid area with sufficiently high solar irradiation is surrounded by a large glass roof, the collector. The warm air collected under the roof flows towards the tower because of buoyancy effect, and drives turbines connected to generators which create electric power. The natural fuel of SCPPs – solar irradiation – is carbon-free, inexhaustible, sustainable, costfree and practically unlimited. It is able to satisfy the power demand of mankind at present and in future.

The solar updraft tower (also: solar chimney) power technology is simple, robust, long lasting and economic. A SUTPP will provide electric power over many decades, up to 100 years. The feasibility of the SUTPP technology has been demonstrated successfully by the famous 1982 Manzanares Prototype and more recently by a number of project studies.
The aim of the conference is to bring together experts from all of the different fields involved to identify the state of the art in thermodynamics, fluid-mechanics, structural engineering, as well as in construction techniques, and in power-harvesting of the SCPP technology, in order to identify possibilities for further economic optimization.

After refereeing process, the selected excellent papers will be published on the Special Issue of Solar Energy(www.elsevier.com), the official journal of the International Solar Energy Society®, will be indexed in the major academic databases, including SCI, EI Compendex. Latest Impact Factor: 2.135 .
Other accepted papers will be published on international journal "Applied Mechanics and Materials" and will be indexed in the major academic databases, including EI Compendex, Thomson ISI (ISTP), and other indexing services. Trans Tech Publications will provide online camera-ready paper submission system to save time and decrease the publishing cycle. The full text is online available via platform www.scientific.net.

The organizers am planning to help to contact tourism companies with a possibility for an air plane travel to visit the Wuhai (Inner Mongolia) SUTPT prototype or Three Gorges Dam (Yichang, Hubei) for a day. After registering, the delegates will be requested to indicate if willing to have the tourisms and choose the tourist spots (Wuhai or Yichang).