Special climate around a commercial solar chimney power plant

Journal of Energy Engineering

Volumn 134, Issue 1, 2008, Pages 6-14

  Zhou, Xinping ^a   Yang, Jiakuan ^a   Xiao, Bo ^a   Shi, Xiaoyan ^a  

^a HUAZHONG UNIVERSITY OF SCIENCE AND TECHNOLOGY   (China)

Author keywords

Chimneys; Climatology; Humidity; Rainfall; Thermal powerplants

Indexed keywords

ATMOSPHERIC HUMIDITY; CHIMNEYS; CLIMATOLOGY; MATHEMATICAL MODELS; RAIN; SOLAR RADIATION; STRUCTURAL DESIGN; THERMAL EFFECTS; WIND EFFECTS;

ATMOSPHERIC CIRCULATION; SOLAR CHIMNEY POWER PLANTS; THERMAL POWERPLANTS;

STEAM POWER PLANTS;

EID: 39349093513     PISSN: 07339402     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1061/(ASCE)0733-9402(2008)134:1(6)     Document Type: Article

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