Design and Simulation of a Solar Chimney PV/T Power Plant in Northwest China

Table 1

Parameters of some case studies of SCPPs.

Year	Location	Weather condition	SCPP parameters			Power efficiency
		Solar radiation	Collector radius	Chimney height	Power capacity
1983	Manzanares, Spain [20, 21]	1000 W/m^2	122 m	194.6 m	50 kW	0.11%
2003	Yinchuan, China [22]	600 W/m^2	250 m	200 m	110–190 kW	0.09%
2010	Adrar, Algeria [23]	800 W/m^2	250 m	200 m	140–200 kW	0.09%
2010	Qinghai-Tibet Plateau [24]^1	807 W/m^2	2825 m	1000 m	92.4 MW	0.89%
2012	7 cities in Iran [25]^2	640 W/m^2	122 m	194.6 m	75.9 kW	0.08%

¹The authors of [24] did not supply the detailed solar radiation and power capacity in their literature. We calculated the results according to the results supplied in their paper and the solar duration supplied by the China Meteorological Information Center (CMIC). ²The solar radiation and power capacity are calculated according to the data supplied by the authors.