Experimental Investigations on Performance and Design Parameters of Solar Chimney

In this study, a solar chimney system, which is suitable for climate conditions of isparta and its surroundings, is designed theoretically. with the aim of studying experimentally as based on that design, a prototype solar chimney has been constructed in the university campus area of süleyman demirel university-racrer (research and application center for renewable energy resources). additionally, after the experimental studies, the system is modelled theoretically with depending on the design. then, this model constituted the basis for developed computer programme and performance parameters of the system are obtained. the obtained findings showed that the solar chimney, which is suitable for climate conditions of isparta and its surroundings, are sufficient for determining design and performance parameters. the results showed that electricity generation with solar chimney is suitable for areas which have high solar incident and long sunshine duration and similar climate conditions as such as isparta and its surroundings. when the results are evaluated, it is seen that electricity generation power of solar chimney depends on the region solar data, the chimney height and the size of greenhouse area.