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Abstract
The solar chimney power plant converts solar thermal energy into kinetic energy to generate electricity. The main parts of the solar chimney plant are collector, chimney tower and turbine. Many factors that affected solar plant performance as solar intensity radiation, air pressure drop, temperature, velocity, and mass flow rate. The produced output power depends on the design of parameters of the solar chimney as well as its dimensions. Therefore; this study focused on how to optimize a solar chimney through a mathematical model to predict and estimate the optimum dimensions of any proposed solar chimney power plant by knowing the required output power and the ambient conditions. The Q-basic program was used to develop such a mathematical model for obtaining the optimum plant dimensions for a known output power plant. The developed mathematical model results were validated by measurements of an actual physical plant. Also, the study proposes that the most suitable plant, affordable by local government standards to respond to the electricity demand of a typical village in Aswan. Also, the developed model enables the prediction of the performance parameters of any solar chimney power plant for 24 hours a day.