Exergy and Economic Analysis of Solar Chimney in Iran Climate: Tehran, Semnan, and Bandar Abbas

Summary

Compares Tehran, Semnan and Bandar Abbas in Iran as sites for a solar chimney power plant. A thermodynamic model with genetic-algorithm optimisation of geometry, performance and economics is used. For a fixed design, output barely changes between the cities. The optimisation favours Bandar Abbas, with a plant of about 167 MW and an 823 m tower, which also has the highest exergy destruction.

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