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Effect of heat storage and fuel price on energy management and economics of micro CCHP cogeneration systems

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In the present work, a typical combined cooling, heating and power (CCHP) system comprised of boiler, flat solar collectors, absorption chiller and heat storage tank was investigated. The described system was considered to supply the given electricity, cooling and heating demand of a residential building; with heating and cooling needs of 100 and 50 kW, respectively. To find the optimum hybrid configurations with high reliability, low costs, low fuel consumption and emissions, a computer program was provided by authors in FORTRAN language. Different fuel prices were considered in the present work. The results indicated that the optimal operation strategy changes with Boiler and NGG fuel prices while it also changes with increasing the number of solar collectors, heat storage capacity and consequently decreasing total annual emission.

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  1. Department of Mechanical Engineering, Faculty of Engineering, University of Zabol, Sistan&Baluchestan, Iran

    I. Baniasad Askari

  2. Department of Energy Engineering, Zhejiang University, Hangzhou, 310027, China

    I. Baniasad Askari

  3. Department of Computer and Electrical Engineering, Faculty of Engineering, University of Sistan&Baluchestan, Sistan&Baluchestan, Iran

    M. Oukati Sadegh

  4. Department of Mechanical Engineering, faculty of Engineering, Shahid Bahonar University, Kerman, Iran

    M. Ameri

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Ighball Baniasad Askari is a lecturer in the Department of Mechanical Engineering at the University of Zabol, Iran. His current research interests include Techno-Economic analysis of Renewable (wind and solar) hybrid energy systems, Combined Cooling, Heating and Power (CCHP) Technology, Energy storage technology, Numerical analysis of fluid flows at supercritical pressures and Thermo-Exergic analysis of different energy systems.

M. Oukati Sadegh received his B.S., M.S. degrees from University of Tehran, and Ph.D. from University of Strathclyde, Glasgow, United Kingdom in 1989, 1992 and 2003, respectively. Dr. Oukati Sadegh is currently the Chancellor of the University of Zabol, Iran. He is an Associated Professor of the Department of Computer and Electrical Engineering at University of Sistan & Baluchestan, Iran. His research fields include Intelligent Optimization, Fuzzy logic and Fuzzy control application, flexible AC transmission systems (FACTS) and Information Technology (IT) Management.

M. Ameri is an Associate Professor of Department of Mechanical Engineering at Shahid Bahonar university of Kerman; contributed to teaching in thermofluid flows at both undergraduate and postgraduate degrees. He conducted theoretical and experimental research in energy, renewable energy and solar energy; obtained Ph.D. in mechanical engineering from Isfahan university of Technology, Iran in 1998. He has several published papers about renewable and solar energy.

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Askari, I.B., Sadegh, M.O. & Ameri, M. Effect of heat storage and fuel price on energy management and economics of micro CCHP cogeneration systems. J Mech Sci Technol 28, 2003–2014 (2014). https://doi.org/10.1007/s12206-014-0349-2

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