Solar Towers is a reference database of scientific research on solar chimneys, also called solar updraft towers. It gathers in one place the journal articles, conference papers, theses and book chapters published on the subject, so that researchers, engineers and students can find them quickly.
What you will find
Every publication whose title mentions “solar chimney”, from power plants to building ventilation, desalination, drying and hybrid systems. Each entry gives:
- the full citation, the authors, the journal and the publication date;
- a link to the official source through its DOI, and a link to the free PDF when an open access version exists;
- topics describing the application (power plant, ventilation, desalination, drying, hybrid system), the method (experimental, numerical / CFD, review) and cross-cutting topics (thermal storage, machine learning);
- the abstract or a short summary (see below).
Use the filters on the publications page to search by keyword, author, journal, topic or year, or to show open access publications only.
How the database is built
Publications are identified in open bibliographic databases (OpenAlex, OpenAIRE, Crossref) and completed with Google Scholar searches. Each record is checked automatically before it is added: duplicates (preprint and published version, for instance), errata and datasets are left out.
Abstracts and summaries
The authors’ abstract is reproduced only when the publication is released under an open licence (Creative Commons); the licence is then stated on the page. For all other publications, the page shows a short summary written by Solar Tower, based on the published information about the work and checked so as not to copy the original wording. The original abstract can always be read at the publisher, through the link on each page.
Editor
The site is edited by Renaud de Richter, co-author of research on solar chimney power plants and on the removal of atmospheric methane with solar chimneys combined with photocatalytic reactors. Several of these publications are listed in the database.
A publication is missing, or an entry contains an error? Please let us know through the contact page.