The solar chimney, also called a solar updraft tower or solar power tower, operates on the principle of harnessing and capturing solar energy to generate electricity through natural convection. It is one of the most representative solar-assisted passive ventilation systems attached to the building envelope. It performs exceptionally in enhancing natural. This review provides a comprehensive synthesis of experimental solar chimney research, focusing on methods to improve power generation performance. The studies are systematically categorized by parameters including component dimensions, innovative structures, materials, environmental conditions. The solar chimney is one of the most feasible retrofit for the buildings which operated by solar irradiance and saved the much of energy used in ventilation cooling and heating of building. Thermodynamic models were created to study the thermal and, there- the cavity of the NVF.
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