Passive Ventilation Using Solar Chimneys: Design Parameters, Performance, and Climatic Limitations

Summary

Literature review of solar chimneys for passive building ventilation, examining how geometry, structural layout and climate shape airflow performance across vertical, inclined, conical and collector-integrated hybrid designs. Well-designed, properly oriented chimneys can cut energy use and improve indoor conditions, but evidence comes mostly from sunny tropical and subtropical regions, leaving temperate climates with weaker, variable sunlight largely unstudied.

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