The purpose of this paper is to present and discuss the performance of experimental curves related to the following prime movers for smart polygeneration grids: a microturbine (100 kW electrical power), an internal combustion engine (20 kW electrical power), a SOFC-based hybrid system (450 kW virtual electrical power) and an absorption chiller (100 kW cooling power). The experimental results reported here were obtained using a new facility developed by the Thermochemical Power Group: essential operations for distributed generation grids equipped with different types of technologies are possible, as well as test with different control and optimisation algorithms. Apart from the data on the hybrid system (obtained with an emulator rig based on the coupling of a microturbine, a modular vessel and a real-time simulation model for components not present in the rig), the performance curves of the other devices were obtained from measurements on real machines. Given the influence of ambient temperature on microturbine performance, correlations related to this parameter were developed from experiments for easy application in optimization tools.

Performance curves of prime movers for smart polygeneration grids

Ferrari M. L.;Traverso A.;Massardo A. F.
2015-01-01

Abstract

The purpose of this paper is to present and discuss the performance of experimental curves related to the following prime movers for smart polygeneration grids: a microturbine (100 kW electrical power), an internal combustion engine (20 kW electrical power), a SOFC-based hybrid system (450 kW virtual electrical power) and an absorption chiller (100 kW cooling power). The experimental results reported here were obtained using a new facility developed by the Thermochemical Power Group: essential operations for distributed generation grids equipped with different types of technologies are possible, as well as test with different control and optimisation algorithms. Apart from the data on the hybrid system (obtained with an emulator rig based on the coupling of a microturbine, a modular vessel and a real-time simulation model for components not present in the rig), the performance curves of the other devices were obtained from measurements on real machines. Given the influence of ambient temperature on microturbine performance, correlations related to this parameter were developed from experiments for easy application in optimization tools.
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