Many factors, such as the materials used to make the solar chimney, solar chimney
height, solar collector materials, and the soil or rock contents under the solar collector,
may influence the performance of the solar chimney plant. Also important for
power generation is the wind turbine and the controlling system of the plant. Detailed
analyses concerning heat exchange and fluid flow inside the solar chimney could be
processed with CFD software [3,4]. Here a simple method is reported, which takes
into account solar collection, useful work and electric power output of the turbine,
and is expected to evaluate the performance of the solar chimney power plant
reported.