Solar Chimney for Sustainable Natural Ventilation in Buildings: A Systematic Review of Design Innovations, Hybrid Coupling, and Performance Enhancement

Summary

Systematic PRISMA-based review of 30 studies from the past decade on solar chimneys for passive building ventilation, covering geometry, hybrid configurations and optimisation. Coupling with earth–air heat exchangers enables round-the-clock ventilation and cuts cooling energy by roughly 40%. The authors point to missing field validation, standard metrics, life-cycle costing and high-fidelity transient models.

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