Modeling, energy and exergy analysis of solar chimney power plant-Tehran climate data case study

Energy

Volumn 115, Issue , 2016, Pages 257-273

  Mehrpooya, Mehdi ^a   Shahsavan, Mohsen ^b   Sharifzadeh, Mohammad Mehdi Moftakhari ^a,c  

^a UNIVERSITY OF TEHRAN   (Iran)

^b ISLAMIC AZAD UNIVERSITY   (Iran)

^c ISLAMIC AZAD UNIVERSITY   (Iran)

Author keywords

CFD; Energy; Exergy; Renewable energy; Solar chimney power plant

Indexed keywords

CHIMNEYS; CLIMATE MODELS; COMPUTATIONAL FLUID DYNAMICS; DIGITAL STORAGE; EXERGY; FLUID DYNAMICS; SENSITIVITY ANALYSIS;

ELECTRICAL POWER OUTPUT; ENERGY; ENERGY AND EXERGY ANALYSIS; ENERGY AND EXERGY EFFICIENCY; MATHEMATICAL EQUATIONS; RENEWABLE ENERGIES; SOLAR CHIMNEY POWER PLANT; THREE DIMENSIONAL (3-D) MODELING;

SOLAR CHIMNEYS;

CLIMATE EFFECT; ENERGETICS; EXERGY; GEOMETRY; PHOTOVOLTAIC SYSTEM; POWER PLANT; RENEWABLE RESOURCE; SENSITIVITY ANALYSIS; SOLAR POWER; THERMODYNAMICS;

IRAN; TEHRAN [IRAN];

EID: 84987909975     PISSN: 03605442     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.energy.2016.09.006     Document Type: Article

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