Experimental study of solar chimney performance for passive heating

An experimental investigation on solar chimney used for heating under climate of Iraq is carried out. Experiments were conducted on the chimney installed on vertical wall with absorber plate placed at the front side of the air gap. The solar chimney attached to room of dimensions (2.5×1.29×1.07) m....

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Published in:The Iraqi journal for mechanical and materials engineering. Vol. 18; no. 3; pp. 375 - 388
Main Authors: Majid, Majid Hamid, Rusn, Ibrahim Suwayl
Format: Journal Article
Language:Arabic
English
Published: Babylon, Iraq University of Babylon, College of Engineering 06-11-2018
University of Babylon, Iraq Babil Engineering Collage
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Summary:An experimental investigation on solar chimney used for heating under climate of Iraq is carried out. Experiments were conducted on the chimney installed on vertical wall with absorber plate placed at the front side of the air gap. The solar chimney attached to room of dimensions (2.5×1.29×1.07) m. The chimney is studied to measure the effect of the air gap width with constant height of (1.07 m). Three widths are tested, namely, 0.2 m, 0.3 m and 0.4 m. The experimental results showed that the solar chimney can achieve about (13 °C) difference in temperature between indoor and outdoor as well as it gives acceptable difference in partial cloudy days. The results also indicated that the best performance of solar chimney is with 0.3m air gap width.
ISSN:2076-1819
1819-2076
2313-3783
DOI:10.32852/iqjfmme.v18i3.170