Capacity assessment of large-scale wind hydrogen production in very hot and humid region of Iran: A case study

In recent years, hydrogen production from renewable energy has been attracting the attention of investors and politicians in the world. Although green hydrogen is still in its early stages in Iran, it has a high potential for development. Considering the importance of the above-mentioned facts and Iran's very good wind potential, the present study was the first attempt to investigate hydrogen production from wind energy in the hot and humid climate zone of Iran. The investigated stations were 5 cities of Khuzestan province and 4 large scale wind turbines were selected to be evaluated. A numerical analysis on wind data and the best fit of the Weibull function for the stations were done. Based on the coefficients k and c of the Weibull function, the amount of hydrogen produced by electrolysis was calculated. The results of the study showed that the EWT 900-52 wind turbine produced the most wind electricity, an annual 4645.85 megawatt hours of wind electricity equivalent to 68.3 tons of hydrogen, in all the investigated stations. Moreover, the suitable station was found to be Dezful, which can produce 20.36, 16.45, 11.93 and 9.44 tons of hydrogen when using wind turbines EWT 52-900, AWE 54-900, AWE 52-750 and Hewind 43-600 respectively.