Summary
Examines whether reheating the rising air inside the tower of a solar chimney power plant can allow a shorter, cheaper chimney. In a case study of a plant in the Wuhai desert, with draft pressure and inlet flow held fixed, the best results come from heating the flow to about 90 °C inside the stack, which allows a tower about 80 m tall.
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