Dispatch Strategy and Model for Hybrid Photovoltaic and Trigeneration Power Systems

Amir Nosrat (1) , Joshua Pearce (1)

1 Queen's Applied Sustainability Laboratory

The advent of small scale combined heat and power (CHP) systems has provided the opportunity for in-house power backup of residential-scale photovoltaic (PV) arrays. These hybrid systems enjoy a symbiotic relationship between components, but have large thermal energy wastes when operated to provide 100% of the electric load. In a novel hybrid system is proposed here of PV-trigeneration. In order to reduce waste from excess heat, an absorption chiller has been proposed to utilize the CHP-produced thermal energy for cooling of PV-CHP system. This complexity has brought forth entirely new levels of system dynamics and interaction that require numerical simulation in order to optimize system design. This paper introduces a dispatch strategy for such a system that accounts for electric, domestic hot water, space heating, and space cooling load categories. The dispatch strategy was simulated for a typical home in Vancouver and the results indicate an improvement in performance of over 50% available when a PV-CHP system also accounts for cooling. The dispatch strategy and simulation are to be used as a foundation for an optimization algorithm of such systems.

Mots clés: photovoltaic; CHP; combined heating cooling and power; cogeneration; trigeneration; hybrid; renewable energy; solar power; solar energy; solar; energy; combined heat and power; CCHP; trigen

Domaines: Energie électrique

Amir Nosrat, Joshua Pearce. Dispatch Strategy and Model for Hybrid Photovoltaic and Trigeneration Power Systems. Applied Energy, 2011, 68, pp.3270-3276. ⟨10.1016/j.apenergy.2011.02.044⟩. ⟨hal-00677846⟩