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Integration of Renewable Energy based Trigeneration Cycle: A Review

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Gas turbine (GT), organic Rankine cycle and Kalina cycle are foundation of most prominent technologies for the revival of heat which is wasted in terms of generation of power. A significant phase for improvising efficiency of a renewable energy source would be curated through an amalgamation including cooling, heating and power cycle integrated to a renewable-based trigeneration cycle, which has been formally presented in this paper. On this relation geothermal energy, solar energy and biomass are proposed for viable supply of renewable energy. An ejector refrigeration cycle, Li/Br refrigeration cycle and absorption refrigeration cycle are incorporated to constitute the cooling cycle. Solar tower systems, parabolic trough collector system and linear Fresnel reflector systems are the three principal concentrating solar power technologies that can be effectively utilized as assimilation of solar and GT cogeneration systems. Performance of the integration of solar-, biomass- and geothermal-based trigeneration cycles can be assessed by running a simulation analysis in various simulation software such as THERMOFLEX with PEACE software, DYnamic Energy Systems OPTimizer tools, Specific Exergy Costing, Cycle Tempo, Aspen-HYSYS software, ECLIPSE process simulation package and Engineering Equation Solver software.

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Abbreviations

GT:

Gas turbine

KC:

Kalina cycle

CSP:

Concentrating solar power

PTC:

Parabolic trough collector

EES:

Engineering equation solver

CCHP:

Combined cooling, heating and power

SPECO:

Specific exergy costing

DYSOPT:

DYnamic energy systems optimizer

SOFC:

Solid oxide fuel cell

ISGCP:

Integrated solar gas turbine cogeneration power plant

RORC:

Regenerative organic Rankine cycle

ISCCS:

Integrated solar combined cycle systems

SEGS:

Solar electric generating systems

SRCA:

Sport-Recreation Center Ajdinovici

VCRC:

Vapor compression refrigeration cycle

BCHP:

Building cooling heating and power

LEC:

Levelized energy cost

GEF:

Global environment facility

ORC:

Organic Rankine cycle

ERC:

Ejector refrigeration cycle

ST:

Solar tower

LFR:

Linear Fresnel reflector

CHP:

Combined heat and power

CHRP:

Combined heating, refrigeration and power

DWH:

Domestic water heater

HRSG:

Heat recovery steam generator

CC:

Combustion chamber

AC:

Air compressor

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    Manish Kumar, Raghwendra Banchhor & Arun Arora

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Kumar, M., Chandra, H., Banchhor, R. et al. Integration of Renewable Energy based Trigeneration Cycle: A Review. J. Inst. Eng. India Ser. C 102, 851–865 (2021). https://doi.org/10.1007/s40032-021-00690-y

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