Dear Sathish,
The attached paper will help you to understand the theoretical aspect of solar pond.
Duffie, J. A., & Beckman, W. A. (2013). Solar engineering of thermal processes. Hoboken, NY: Wiley.
http://www.wiley.com/WileyCDA/WileyTitle/productCd-0470873663.html
If the energy captured by a solar pond is to be used as heat, then the efficiency can in principle be 100%. If it is to be converted to work via a heat engine, the fraction that can be converted to work is in principle the Carnot efficiency 1 - Th/Tamb, but in practice closer to the Curzon-Ahlborn efficiency at maximum power output (assuming heat flows proportional to temperature differences) 1 - (Th/Tamb)^1/2. Here Th is the temperature of the hottest (lower) layer of the solar pond and Tamb is the ambient air temperature.
Hi,
I hope previous answers helped you in your work. For more detail you can visit these links.
Happy Researching.
http://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/pii/0890433287900597
http://www.iosrjournals.org/iosr-jmce/papers/vol6-issue1/D0612232.pdf?id=2413
http://lib.dr.iastate.edu/cgi/viewcontent.cgi?article=7607&context=rtd
efficiency = sensible heat absorbed by water / Incident radiation
a solar pond based electricity generation plant has efficiency of 5 % and power output of 500mW . if solar insolation is 1000mW/m2 . what is the area of solar pond?????
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