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Review

Solar Chimney Power Plants: A Review of the Concepts, Designs and Performances

by
Erdem Cuce
1,2,*,
Pinar Mert Cuce
2,3,
Salvatore Carlucci
4,
Harun Sen
1,2,
Kumarasamy Sudhakar
5,6,7,
Md. Hasanuzzaman
8 and
Reza Daneshazarian
9
1
Department of Mechanical Engineering, Faculty of Engineering and Architecture, Recep Tayyip Erdogan University, Zihni Derin Campus, Rize 53100, Turkey
2
Low/Zero Carbon Energy Technologies Laboratory, Faculty of Engineering and Architecture, Recep Tayyip Erdogan University, Zihni Derin Campus, Rize 53100, Turkey
3
Department of Architecture, Faculty of Engineering and Architecture, Recep Tayyip Erdogan University, Zihni Derin Campus, Rize 53100, Turkey
4
Energy, Environment and Water Research Center, The Cyprus Institute, Nicosia 2121, Cyprus
5
Faculty of Mechanical and Automobile Engineering Technology, Universiti Malaysia Pahang, Pekan 26600, Malaysia
6
Energy Centre, Maulana Azad National Institute of Technology Bhopal, Bhopal 462003, India
7
Department of Electric Stations, Grids and Power Supply Systems, South Ural State University, 45408 Chelyabinsk, Russia
8
Higher Institution Centre of Excellence (HICoE), UM Power Energy Dedicated Advanced Centre (UMPEDAC), University of Malaya, Jalan Pantai Baharu, Kuala Lumpur 59990, Malaysia
9
Department of Mechanical and Industrial Engineering, Ryerson University, Toronto, ON M5B 2K3, Canada
*
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Sustainability 2022, 14(3), 1450; https://doi.org/10.3390/su14031450
Submission received: 23 December 2021 / Revised: 14 January 2022 / Accepted: 18 January 2022 / Published: 27 January 2022
(This article belongs to the Special Issue Optimised Technologies for Improving Building Energy Efficiency)
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This research presents a comprehensive review of solar chimney power plants (SCPP) as a reliable source of renewable electricity generation. Solar chimney power plants differ from other renewable energy technologies because thermal and momentum effects result in 24-h electricity generation. However, they are influenced by a wide range of design, geometrical and operational parameters, and environmental conditions. This review evaluates the design aspects and the theoretical, numerical, experimental, and performance findings in previous works holistically and concisely. The study also extensively discusses the various optimization strategies, advantages, disadvantages, and limitations of solar chimney power plants. Energy storage aspects and hybrid system designs are also addressed in the present review in order to overcome the known handicaps and limitations of solar chimney power plants. The performance figures of the technology are clearly demonstrated as a function of the design and operational conditions, and future prospects are discussed in detail. It is hoped that designers and policymakers will gain valuable insight into the technological features and advancements of solar chimney power plants, assisting them in making a better-informed decision.
Keywords: solar chimney power plants; design aspects; collector; chimney; energy storage; hybrid system solar chimney power plants; design aspects; collector; chimney; energy storage; hybrid system

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Cuce, E.; Cuce, P.M.; Carlucci, S.; Sen, H.; Sudhakar, K.; Hasanuzzaman, M.; Daneshazarian, R. Solar Chimney Power Plants: A Review of the Concepts, Designs and Performances. Sustainability 2022, 14, 1450. https://doi.org/10.3390/su14031450

AMA Style

Cuce E, Cuce PM, Carlucci S, Sen H, Sudhakar K, Hasanuzzaman M, Daneshazarian R. Solar Chimney Power Plants: A Review of the Concepts, Designs and Performances. Sustainability. 2022; 14(3):1450. https://doi.org/10.3390/su14031450

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Cuce, Erdem, Pinar Mert Cuce, Salvatore Carlucci, Harun Sen, Kumarasamy Sudhakar, Md. Hasanuzzaman, and Reza Daneshazarian. 2022. "Solar Chimney Power Plants: A Review of the Concepts, Designs and Performances" Sustainability 14, no. 3: 1450. https://doi.org/10.3390/su14031450

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Cuce, E., Cuce, P. M., Carlucci, S., Sen, H., Sudhakar, K., Hasanuzzaman, M., & Daneshazarian, R. (2022). Solar Chimney Power Plants: A Review of the Concepts, Designs and Performances. Sustainability, 14(3), 1450. https://doi.org/10.3390/su14031450

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