Design and Analysis of a Novel Solar Driven Multigeneration System for Providing Energy Requirement of A Building

Abstract

Primary energy sources, fossil fuels mostly, have been depleting and not only in industrial and commercial sectors, but also in residential applications affect negatively the environment. One of the important solutions to these problems depends on renewable energy usage widely. One has focused on renewable energy-based multigeneration systems in the last decade. In this paper, a solar driven multigeneration system is introduced and the simulation of this system is performed by using TRNSYS 18. The proposed system includes PV-T and PV panels, a solid oxide fuel cell (SOFC), an electrolyzer, a hydrogen compressor, a hydrogen storage tank, a generator, a gas turbine cycle, batteries, an air-cooled chiller, an absorption chiller, hydrogen combustors, a water storage tank, a heat exchanger and control systems. In this system, the producing heat, cooling, electricity and hydrogen are designed. This system is considered to be located in Izmir, which is the third biggest in Turkey by population and the performance of the system is analyzed over a period of one year.