Summary
Undergraduate dissertation that builds a laboratory rig and a theoretical turbine model to assess a newly invented turbine for generating electricity in a solar chimney plant, with the model checked against an existing university prototype. Early experimental and numerical results suggest the turbine runs at airspeeds under 3.5 m/s, while conventional turbines need about 6 m/s on average.
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