A Review of Sloped Solar Updraft Power Technology

The Solar Updraft Power Plant (SUPP) concept was successfully proven in the last few decades through many experimental and analytical approaches. However, the high investment cost compared to the plant efficiency and the limited height of the chimney due to the technological constraints are considered the main disadvantages of the SUPP. In order to overcome these problems, many novel concepts were proposed; One being the Sloped Solar Updraft Power Plant (SSUPP). This paper provides a comprehensive overall review for all SSUPP researches up-to-date including the principle with a description of the plant, physical process, theoretical and experimental studies.