Analysis, Design, and Preliminary Testing of Solar Chimney for Residential Air-Conditioning Applications

Summary

A solar chimney was designed, built and tested to draw outdoor air through a buried cooling pipe for summer cooling of a house. Theory and measurements both indicate the chimney can drive this earth-tube system during the day with no electrical input; the work also examines how building airtightness and tube design affect the resulting airflow.

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