Sentences with phrase «solar chimney»
A "solar chimney" refers to a tall structure that uses the sun's energy to create airflow. It works by heating up the air inside the chimney, which then rises and creates a draft. This allows for natural ventilation and helps cool down buildings or generate electricity. Full definition
First officially described in 1931 by a German author, Hanns Günther, the first functional model solar chimney power station was built in 1982 in Manzaranes, Spain.
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The 200 - m - tall Manzanares prototype solar chimney built in Spain in the 1980s operated successfully for seven years and had an electrical output of 50 kW.
CO2 is captured from the air using a modified Solar Chimney.
Natural ventilation for the new building will be aided through solar chimneys, which draw air through the building and exhaust it at the roof.
Likewise, the use of innovations such as wind catchers and solar chimneys will also limit the need for air conditioning in the summer and bring natural air and lighting into the building, helping to create healthier, lighter rooms and corridors.
(Personally, I liked the «solar chimney» from Enviromission.)
The building has a 377 foot tall «solar chimney» that draws air out of the building during the «shoulder» seasons and summer via the stack effect.
Building occupants, computers and other sources of heat cause the air to rise, which is then drawn north and exhausted by the solar chimney.
Passive cooling techniques (solar chimneys, thermal mass, ventilation, roof ponds,...).
EnviroMission, a public company in Australia, is building a 50MW power station on the Sunraysia site in Buronga, New South Wales, that is based on a solar chimney concept.
A solar chimney is a device for harnessing solar energy by the convection of heated air.
Mr Michaud is not the only person working on harnessing energy using a solar chimney concept.
As described in The Economist, his system «works on a similar principle to a solar chimney, which consists of a tall, hollow cylinder surrounded by a large greenhouse.
Solar chimney's have been regarded as kind of ridiculous by many (well me and my colleagues) in the renewable energy sector for many years (800m high towers the width of a football field?!
The AVE has the same thermodynamic basis as the solar chimney.
A solar chimney consists of a tall vertical tube surrounded by a solar energy collector.
The maximum efficiency of the solar chimney is 1.5 % because of chimney height limitations; the efficiency of the AVE could be up to 30 % because a vortex chimney can extend up to 15 km into the atmosphere.
The vortex engine has the same thermodynamic basis as the proven solar chimney except the physical tube of the solar chimney is replaced with centrifugal force.
Early vernacular buildings developed using these universal principles, carefully orienting and shading buildings so that they gained heat in winter and were shady in summer, introducing thermal mass in dry climates, and in more humid ones using cross ventilation, porches, shutters, ceiling fans, solar chimneys and insulation.