关键词:
Phosphoric acid fuel cell
Organic Rankine cycle
CCHP
Exergy efficiency
Thermal energy storage tank
Current density
PERFORMANCE ANALYSIS
THERMODYNAMIC ANALYSIS
STIRLING ENGINE
CCHP SYSTEM
OPTIMIZATION
DRIVEN
POLYGENERATION
REFRIGERATOR
GENERATION
RECOVERY
摘要:
In recent years, combined generation systems have become more popular due to their advantages such as high overall efficiency, low fuel consumption, low emissions and lower operating costs. Using fuel cell as prime mover with high efficiency and low pollution can be a solution to achieve higher efficiencies in the combined generation systems. In this study, performance of a novel combined cooling, heating and power system or trigeneration system with phosphoric acid fuel cell along with an organic Rankine cycle is conducted. The system includes a hydrogen storage tank, a phosphoric acid fuel cell, an afterburner, an organic Rankine cycle, a thermal energy storage tank, an absorption chiller, and heat exchangers. For recovery of the waste heat of phosphoric acid fuel cell, three heat recovery systems (the organic Rankine cycle, absorption chiller and, domestic hot water system) are proposed to meet the electricity, cooling and heating needs of a building. The use of heat storage tank and absorption chiller to use the waste heat of the fuel cell and utilize of organic Rankine cycle to supply some part of the power, in a new arrangement is one of the most important novelties of this study. The impacts of current density, operating pressure, and operating temperature of fuel cell on the performance of the trigeneration system are investigated from the perspectives of energy and exergy. The net electrical power of the trigeneration system is 432.8 kW, the cooling capacity is 17.5 kW, and the heating capacity is 90.7 kW, and the domestic hot water capacity is 128.5 kW. The results show increment of 57% in energy efficiency and 5.3% in exergy efficiency of the trigeneration system compared to the phosphoric acid fuel cell lonely. Also, with increasing the current density and operating temperature, energy and exergy efficiencies of the trigeneration system decrease, while increasing the operating pressure leads to rise of these parameters. Additionally, irreversibility of t