Energy, Environmental and Economic Performance of a Micro-trigeneration System upon Varying the Electric Vehicle Charging Profiles

Autor: Sergio Sibilio, Antonio Rosato, Giovanni Ciampi, Evgueniy Entchev, Hajo Ribberink
Jazyk: angličtina
Rok vydání: 2017
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Zdroj: Journal of Sustainable Development of Energy, Water and Environment Systems, Vol 5, Iss 3, Pp 309-331 (2017)
Druh dokumentu: article
ISSN: 1848-9257
DOI: 10.13044/j.sdewes.d5.0158
Popis: The widespread adoption of electric vehicles and electric heat pumps would result in radically different household electrical demand characteristics, while also possibly posing a threat to the stability of the electrical grid. In this paper, a micro-trigeneration system (composed of a 6.0 kWel cogeneration device feeding a 4.5 kWcool electric air-cooled vapor compression water chiller) serving an Italian residential multi-family house was investigated by using the dynamic simulation software TRNSYS. The charging of an electric vehicle was considered by analyzing a set of seven electric vehicle charging profiles representing different scenarios. The simulations were performed in order to evaluate the capability of micro-cogeneration technology in: alleviating the impact on the electric infrastructure (a); saving primary energy (b); reducing the carbon dioxide equivalent emissions (c) and determining the operating costs in comparison to a conventional supply system based on separate energy production (d).
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