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Low Cost Solar Chimney Performance-Improving Enhancement, Sanza Kazadi, Meishan Liang, Aaron Togelang, Daniel Chan
Low Cost Solar Chimney Performance-Improving Enhancement, Sanza Kazadi, Meishan Liang, Aaron Togelang, Daniel Chan
Sanza Kazadi
Solar chimneys are potentially important components in energy-providing systems. These are
passive solar systems which transduce solar irradiance to airflow. The airflow, in turn, can be transformed
into electricity. While the ability of the solar chimney to create airflow has been examined in a number of
different studies, little attention has been focused on improving the performance of the solar collector. In
principle, increasing the thermal lift of the chimney would improve the chimney's overall airflow
production and extend the upper limit of energy production.
We examine an improvement to the solar collector design for the simple solar chimney capable …