Simple analysis on thermal performance of solar chimney power generation systems

Summary

Thermodynamic treatment of the airflow in a solar chimney power plant, modelling the plant together with its surroundings as a Brayton-type cycle and deriving expressions for its theoretical and real efficiency. Both efficiencies prove very low but improve with plant size, the large-scale case performing roughly two and a half times better than the medium-scale one.

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