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Inovative trigeneration unit for production of electricity, heat and cold for distributed energy sector with reduced environmental emission
Proposed trigeneration module utilises the air heat pump (AHP) driven by the multi-fuel gas engine. It is an innovative concept which does not have its counterpart on the domestic or international market. Reversive AHP are regarded as perspective heat sources and belong to a group of equipment regarded as using renewable enegry. The major drawbacks of that type of pumps include a significant reduction of the coefficient of performance in winter conditions, due to the increasing temperature differrence between the upper and lower heat sources, which practically disqualifies such systems from operation in winter conditions, since the operation of such a system is winter is practically non-economic. In the proposed application, utilization of gas-driven engine is suggested to provide electricity to such an AHP, as well as utilization of the heat from the engine cooling to increase the thermal parameters of air at AHP inlet and preparation of utility hot water. In the summer, the system can additionally produce chill. The production of chill would be managed by the adsorption unit which would consume the entire surplus of heat. This is also an innovative implementation and idea of utilisation of heat during summer. The surplus of electricity could be sold to the power grid. Utilization of a combustion engine fueled by bioethanol or biodiesel would render that such installation will not lose its ecological image. Additionally, the total coefficient of performance related to the chemical energy of fuel used for production of electricity will be higher than 1.5, which is significantly higher than that of AHP's presently available on the market. Additionally, the proposed design can ideally replace the systems for independent production of heat and electricity where additional redundancy of electricity supply is required, such as, for example, hospitals.
Details
- Project's acronym:
- INNOECOTRIBLOCK
- Financial Program Name:
- Program Operacyjny Inteligentny Rozwój
- Organization:
- Narodowe Centrum Badań i Rozwoju (NCBR) (The National Centre for Research and Development)
- Agreement:
- z dnia 2018-01-01
- Realisation period:
- 2018-01-01 - 2020-12-31
- Project manager:
- prof. dr hab. inż. Dariusz Mikielewicz
- Realised in:
- Department of Energy and Industrial Apparatus
- External institutions
participating in project: -
- VBW Sp zoo (Poland)
- Request type:
- European Founds
- Domestic:
- Domestic project
- Verified by:
- Gdańsk University of Technology
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