Energy demand has been increasing worldwide and the building sector represents a large
percentage of global energy consumption. Therefore, promoting energy efficiency in …

The requirement for passive cooling strategies in buildings has great attention in almost all
countries, where hot temperatures are predominant throughout the year. The ventilation …

Solar chimney as a reliable renewable energy system has attracted increasing attention
from engineers to conquer the current energy crisis. The main challenge of designing a solar …

The increased utilization of solar energy has generated intensive interest in develo**
solar chimney (SC) technology in recent years. Many studies have been conducted in this …

The conventional indoor climate comfort systems have a major share of energy consumption
in residential sectors. Passive design is an approach that can reduce building energy …

Air motion can be induced in naturally ventilated buildings using passive solar chimneys.
This work aimed to optimize solar chimney design to maximize indoor air velocity induced by …

A CFD based procedure is described to identify the optimum inclination angle of a small-
scale roof-top solar chimney for maximum ventilation performance. The absorber wall of the …

This study presents a novel design that combines cooling tower (CT) and traditional solar
chimney power plant (SCPP) technologies for electricity generation and seawater …

Passive solar systems like solar chimney do require to be exposed to the sunlight. Hence,
when the sunlight vanishes due to either sunset or cloudy weather, the system cannot …

A new solar chimney power distillation plant (SCPWDP) is proposed and studied in this
work. The plant generates electricity and produces distilled water by direct evaporation of …