Development of a small scale plant for a solar chimney power plant (SCPP): A detailed fabrication procedure, experiments and performance parameters evaluation

Summary

Describes how a small solar chimney power plant was sited, sized and built from locally sourced materials, then tested over ten days with measurements of airflow, pressure and temperature. Air speeds near the turbine peaked at about 5.5 m/s, and the measured power reached roughly 0.8 W, giving very low chimney and overall efficiencies; an uncertainty analysis accompanies the results.

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