A review on solar chimney power plants

Nowadays, due to the problems of fossil fuels such as Nonrenewability, environmental pollution, etc., renewable energies have become very important. Solar chimney is one of the renewable energy fields that can be used in power plants. The increasing use of solar energy in recent years has aroused great interest in the development of solar chimney technology. In this article, we study the components of a solar chimney power plant, which includes three main parts: collector, power conversion unit and chimney. Solar chimney power plants have low efficiency. Therefore, combining them with other technologies such as desalination and drying is recommended. Also, the optimization of effective parameters in Combined solar chimney system for power generation and seawater desalination has been investigated. Then, the results of experimental studies performed on solar chimneys from 1981 are reviewed. Also, The feasibility of installing a solar chimney power plant in different regions of Iran has been studied.