Trigeneration system driven by the geothermal and solar sources

C Moscatiello, C Boccaletti, AN Alcaso… - IET Renewable …, 2020 - Wiley Online Library
C Moscatiello, C Boccaletti, AN Alcaso, CA Figueiredo Ramos, AJ Marques Cardoso
IET Renewable Power Generation, 2020Wiley Online Library
In this study, a novel trigeneration system is conceived to produce heat and electricity and to
provide cooling for the health treatments and touristic facilities of a spa, based on the natural
hot water and solar sources. The power generation components, individually considered,
are commercially available ones, but their novel combination and the complex power flow
management represented a challenge. The proposed system is composed of a low‐
temperature driven adsorption chiller, thermally activated by a low enthalpy geothermal …
In this study, a novel trigeneration system is conceived to produce heat and electricity and to provide cooling for the health treatments and touristic facilities of a spa, based on the natural hot water and solar sources. The power generation components, individually considered, are commercially available ones, but their novel combination and the complex power flow management represented a challenge. The proposed system is composed of a low‐temperature driven adsorption chiller, thermally activated by a low enthalpy geothermal source, and by hybrid photovoltaic/thermal panels. In this way, multiple objectives are achieved: produce electricity and thermal energy by renewable sources; optimise the use of different renewable sources (geothermal and solar); use the energy available for free from a geothermal source also during summer (otherwise wasted) to produce a cooling effect, and in so doing, avoiding the huge electricity consumption of conventional air conditioning units in summer; reduce the temperature of the fluids released to the environment (in a natural reserve); reduce the CO2 emissions by 45% with respect to the present configuration, limiting the global warming. The mathematical models were experimentally validated using a pilot plant built on purpose, and the performance of the whole system was analysed and discussed.
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