Download or read book The Design and Functionality of a Solar Chimney Electric Power Plant written by Reccab Manyala and published by LAP Lambert Academic Publishing. This book was released on 2011-03 with total page 160 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Solar chimney power technology This book presents an analysis of not a very old technology of electric power generation using solar energy by employing basic physics that when air is heated it rises. The created updraft can be used to turn a turbine placed at an appropriate position within a tall chimney to generate electricity. The book discusses the principles of and characteristics of such a system, its requirements, its construction and its operation.