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Multifunctional Solar Chimney

From Idea to Practice

  • 1st Edition - March 29, 2025
  • Latest edition
  • Author: Long Shi
  • Language: English

Multifunctional Solar Chimney in Buildings: From Idea to Practice is the first book on multifunctional solar chimneys that integrates energy saving, natural ventilation, and fire s… Read more

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Description

Multifunctional 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.

Key features

  • 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

Readership

Researchers, advanced students, scientists, and faculty across renewable energy, sustainable built environment, engineering, architecture, and sustainability

Table of contents

1. Influencing factors and optimization design of solar chimney

2. Solar chimney under cooling mode

3. Solar chimney under heating modes

4. Impacts of wind environments on solar chimney performance

5. Solar chimney applications to fulfil WHO requirements

6. Experimental validation of multi-functional solar chimney

7. Multi-functional solar chimney in buildings

8. Multi-functional solar chimney in tunnels

Product details

  • Edition: 1
  • Latest edition
  • Published: June 2, 2025
  • Language: English

About the author

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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, China

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