Abstract
Hospitals with high needs for electric, heat and cooling power for the whole year seem to be a promising customer interested in introducing a so-called trigeneration system. The goal of the paper is to calculate the costs of these three energy forms produced from such a system taking the energy and exergy approach. The emphasis was placed on the costs of cooling energy and its variation during peak and off-peak periods when using different types of cooling devices.
Zusammenfassung
Wärme und Kälteleistung für das ganze Jahr sind für die Installation der sog. Kraft-Wärme-Kälte Kopplung geeignet. Das Ziel dieses Beitrags ist die Ermittlung der Kosten für die mit einem derartigen System bereitgestellten unterschiedlichen Energieformen durch Verwendung des Energie- und Exergie-Konzeptes. Der Schwerpunkt ist hierbei auf die Bereitstellungskosten der Kälteleistung gelegt und ihrer Veränderung bei Belastung mit unterschiedlichen Kältemaschinen während unterschiedlicher Perioden.
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Ziher, D., Poredos, A. Cooling power costs from a trigeneration system in a hospital. Forsch Ingenieurwes 70, 105–113 (2005). https://doi.org/10.1007/s10010-005-0019-8
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