Multifunctional Solar Chimney
From Idea to Practice
- 1st Edition - March 29, 2025
- Imprint: Elsevier
- Author: Long Shi
- Language: English
- Paperback ISBN:9 7 8 - 0 - 4 4 3 - 3 3 9 8 6 - 8
- eBook ISBN:9 7 8 - 0 - 4 4 3 - 3 3 9 8 7 - 5
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Request a sales quoteMultifunctional Solar Chimney in Buildings: From Idea to Practice is the first book on multifunctional solar chimneys that integrates energy saving, natural ventilation, and fire safety. The book introduces fundamental influencing factors and optimization design, theoretical deduction of both heating and cooling modes, the impacts of wind environments, solar chimney applications, fulfilment of WHO requirements, idea validation of multifunctional solar chimney, and finally, the applications of multifunctional solar chimney in buildings and tunnels.
This is a valuable resource for all those with an interest in solar chimney technology, sustainable building design, and fire safety engineering, including researchers, engineers, architects, developers, scientists, faculty, advanced students, and policymakers.
This is a valuable resource for all those with an interest in solar chimney technology, sustainable building design, and fire safety engineering, including researchers, engineers, architects, developers, scientists, faculty, advanced students, and policymakers.
- Explores the new idea of multifunctional solar chimney, covering experimental validation, numerical expansion, and real building implementation
- Supports reduced cost of renewable energy systems in the building sector
- Covers both renewable energy and fire safety, building a foundation for future multidisciplinary collaboration
Researchers, advanced students, scientists, and faculty across renewable energy, sustainable built environment, engineering, architecture, and sustainability
- Title of Book
- Cover image
- Title page
- Table of Contents
- Copyright
- List of contributors
- Acknowledgment
- Summary
- Chapter one. Influencing factors of solar chimney in buildings
- Abstract
- 1.1 Introduction
- 1.2 Fundamentals of solar chimney
- 1.3 Influences of configuration
- 1.4 Influences of installation conditions
- 1.5 Influences of material usages
- 1.6 Influences of environment
- 1.7 Concluding remarks
- References
- Chapter two. Empirical model considering both room and cavity configurations
- Abstract
- Nomenclature
- 2.1 Introduction
- 2.2 Methodology
- 2.3 Parametric analysis
- 2.4 Concluding remarks
- References
- Chapter three. Solar chimney under three heating modes
- Abstract
- Nomenclature
- 3.1 Introduction
- 3.2 Three heating modes
- 3.3 Methodology
- 3.4 Results and discussion
- 3.5 Comparison and implementation
- 3.6 Concluding remarks
- References
- Chapter four. Theoretical models for wall solar chimney
- Abstract
- Nomenclature
- 4.1 Introduction
- 4.2 Mathematical models
- 4.3 Validations of theoretical models
- 4.4 Comparisons and Implementations
- 4.5 Concluding remarks
- References
- Chapter five. Impacts of wind on solar chimney performance
- Abstract
- Nomenclature
- 5.1 Introduction
- 5.2 Methodology
- 5.3 Results and discussion
- 5.4 Theoretical analysis
- 5.5 Concluding remarks
- References
- Chapter six. Experimental study on multifunctional solar chimney
- Abstract
- 6.1 Introduction
- 6.2 Experimental methodology
- 6.3 Results and discussion
- 6.4 Development of empirical model
- 6.5 Concluding remarks
- References
- Chapter seven. A case study of multifunctional solar chimney in building
- Abstract
- 7.1 Introduction
- 7.2 Methodology
- 7.3 Results and discussion
- 7.4 Practical Implementations
- 7.5 Concluding remarks
- References
- Chapter eight. A case study of multifunctional solar chimney in tunnel
- Abstract
- Nomenclature
- 8.1 Introduction
- 8.2 Research methodology
- 8.3 Results and discussion
- 8.4 Theoretical models for natural ventilation
- 8.5 Theoretical model for smoke exhaustion
- 8.6 Validation and implementations
- 8.7 Concluding remarks
- References
- Index
- Edition: 1
- Published: March 29, 2025
- No. of pages (Paperback): 276
- No. of pages (eBook): 300
- Imprint: Elsevier
- Language: English
- Paperback ISBN: 9780443339868
- eBook ISBN: 9780443339875
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Long Shi
Long Shi, PhD, is a Professor at the State Key Laboratory of Fire Science at the University of Science and Technology of China. He has been working on integrating renewable energy and fire safety systems for over 15 years. He has published over 150 papers in SCI indexed journals and designed the world-first multifunctional solar chimney building in Melbourne, Australia, which led him to be a Finalist of Australian Engineering Excellence Awards.
Affiliations and expertise
Professor, State Key Laboratory of Fire Science, University of Science and Technology of China, ChinaRead Multifunctional Solar Chimney on ScienceDirect