Enhancement methods of the performance of a solar chimney power plant: Review

In recent years, researchers have been interested in renewable energy as an alternative to non-renewable energy and its importance, especially solar energy. Solar chimney power plants are one of the proposed systems for energy production based on the sun. One of the most important disadvantages of the solar chimney power plant is the low efficiency of these systems. And previous research indicated the need for many studies to increase their performance. This study focused on reviewing the articles examining the performance of the main components of solar chimney power plants and the most important approaches to improve the performance of the system using various methods, including integrating the system with thermal storage materials and phase changes materials (PCMs) as well as integrating it with other technologies and in addition, integrating the solar chimney power plant with an external heat source and the engineering treatments for tower chimney design to improve the efficiency of the solar chimney power plant.