The calibration and validation of a model for simulating the thermal and electrical performance of a 1 kWAC proton-exchange membrane fuel-cell micro-cogeneration device

Scope and sustainability of hybrid solar–biomass power plant with cooling, desalination in polygeneration process in India

“…Finally to reduce their net power consumption, some of industries through cogeneration produce power as well as process heat for their use. Cogeneration system reduces the energy demand of the residential sector for electricity, space heating/cooling and domestic hot water and greenhouse gas emissions [17]. Typical sugarcane crushing period Table 2 Tariff announced by regulatory commission of different states for solar thermal and biomass power and hybrid solar-biomass power in the year 2013-2014.…”

Developing a Methodology for Assessing the Energy Potential of Residential Micro-Cogeneration Systems

“…the fuel cell studied by Sommer and Mesenhöller (2013)) are approaching the electrical efficiency of combined-cycle plants while PEMFCs have lower values (e.g. 35% for the fuel cell studied by Johnson et al (2013)). Therefore, to achieve its full potential and to ensure a favourable comparison with combined-cycle plants it is important that a fuel cell's thermal output is used effectively.…”

“…None of these previously described simulation efforts where the grey-box approach was used were based on models whose uncertainties were documented in as much detail as those that were presented by Beausoleil-Morrison and Lombardi (2009). However, there have been several simulation based studies where a model that was developed as part of this thesis (Johnson et al, 2013) was used. As will be shown later (Chapter 5), all relevant uncertainties were characterized for this model.…”

“…To represent occupant electrical consumption characteristics, these studies also made use of experimentally measured non-heating ventilating and air-conditioning (non-HVAC) electricity consumption data sampled at a one-minute time resolution that were first gathered by Saldanha and Beausoleil-Morrison (2012) from twelve volunteer houses in Ottawa, Canada. Han et al (2015) used the model developed by Johnson et al (2013) to demonstrate how PEMFCs may be used to assist PV arrays in a micro-grid community.…”

“…Notably, the model used by Canelli et al (2015) was calibrated with data originating from an earlier version of the apparatus used by Johnson et al (2013). Canelli et al (2015) have cited a conference paper (Thorsteinson et al, 2011) as the origin of their data (as was also done by references (Anindito et al, 2013;Entchev et al, 2013)) where the model uncertainties were not yet defined.…”