Solar chimney power plants (SCPPs) collect air heated over a large area on the ground and exhaust it through turbine or turbines located near base of tall to produce renewable electricity. SCPP design in practice is likely be specific site variable size, both which require purpose-built turbine. If cannot mass produced, unlike wind turbines, for example, they should as cheap possible manufactur...

Abstract Influence of area ratio (AR) on main performance parameters solar chimney power plants (SCPPs) is investigated through a justified 3D axisymmetric CFD model. Geometric characteristics Manzanares pilot plant (MPP) are taken into consideration for the numerical AR varied from 0.5 to 10 cover both concave and convex (convergent divergent) designs. Following accuracy verification results p...

Natural ventilation is considered as an effective way to improve and thermal comfort reduce energy consumption in residential buildings. In this sense, natural done by a solar chimney. It used increase the air flow through room converting into kinetic energy. work, we intend present results of three dimensional numerical simulation ANSYS software equipped with chimney semiarid climatic conditio...