Economic and energy-saving characteristics of cogeneration systems with microturbine and desiccant air-conditioning units are investigated on system operational planning. An optimization approach is adopted to rationally evaluate these characteristics. In this approach, on/off and rated/part load status of operation of equipment and energy flow rates are determined so as to minimize the hourly energy charge subject to satisfaction of energy demand requirements. In this optimization problem, performance characteristics of the microturbine and desiccant air-conditioning units are modeled in consideration of the influence due to ambient air temperature. Moreover, the influence due to ambient air humidity is also considered in the desiccant air-conditioning unit using the psychrometric diagram. The implementation of the numerical analysis method, discussed in this paper, to two cogeneration systems, clearly shows economic and operational benefits of using desiccant air-conditioning.

Issue Section:
Gas Turbines: Industrial and Cogeneration
Keywords:
cogeneration, gas turbines, air conditioning, energy conservation, power generation planning, optimisation, humidity measurement, numerical analysis, power generation economics
Topics:
Air conditioning, Cogeneration systems, Combined heat and power, Flow (Dynamics), Microturbines, Optimization, Performance characterization, Temperature, Cooling, Stress, Heating, Numerical analysis
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