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Solar chimney power plant and its correlation with ambient wind effect

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The use of solar energy in the present era is necessary and important as well. Solar chimney technology for power generation is one of the solar energy harvesting techniques where the direct and dispersed solar radiations are absorbed in the solar chimney power plant. The effectiveness of solar chimneys has been proven for power generation, and it is a promising approach to future energy generation plans. This article provides a comprehensive scenario of the research and development of solar energy technology as well as the history of solar chimneys in the last few decades. It describes the state of empirical and theoretical studies and the physical processes for this commonly used technology. Finally, this paper presents some avenues to cover the practical required approaches for solar chimney power generation plant. In this study, the numerical investigation is also considered to study the stack configuration effect on the performance of a solar chimney power plant. Numerical simulation of the proposed configuration shows that the speculated geometry can reduce the throttling effect of the deflected plume.

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The authors would like to thank University of Malaya for providing financial support under the research Grant SATU Project No. ST013-2018, FRGS Grant Project No. FP143-2019A and RU Geran Project No. RU019D-2017.

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  1. Department of Mechanical Engineering, Faculty of Engineering, University of Malaya, 50603, Kuala Lumpur, Malaysia

    Mazdak Arzpeyma, Kazi Md. Salim Newaz & Naveed Akram

  2. Power Electronics and Renewable Energy Research Laboratory (PEARL), Department of Electrical Engineering, Faculty of Engineering, University of Malaya, 50603, Kuala Lumpur, Malaysia

    Saad Mekhilef

  3. School of Engineering, Deakin University, Geelong, VIC, 3216, Australia

    Ben Horan

  4. School of Software and Electrical Engineering, Faculty of Science, Engineering and Technology, Swinburne University of Technology, Melbourne, VIC, 3122, Australia

    Saad Mekhilef, Mehdi Seyedmahmoudian & Alex Stojcevski

  5. Department of Mechanical Engineering, Mirpur University of Science and Technology (MUST), Mirpur, AJK, 10250, Pakistan

    Naveed Akram

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Arzpeyma, M., Mekhilef, S., Newaz, K.M.S. et al. Solar chimney power plant and its correlation with ambient wind effect. J Therm Anal Calorim 141, 649–668 (2020). https://doi.org/10.1007/s10973-019-09065-z

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