摘要
With the depletion of fossil fuel and climate change,multi-energy systems have attracted widespread attention in buildings.Multi-energy systems,fuelled by renewable energy,including solar and biomass energy,are gain-ing increasing adoption in commercial buildings.Most of previous capacity design approaches are formulated based upon conventional operating schedules,which result in inappropriate design capacities and ineffective operating schedules of the multi-energy system.Therefore,a two-stage capacity optimization approach is pro-posed for the multi-energy system with its optimal operating schedule taken into consideration.To demonstrate the effectiveness of the proposed capacity optimization approach,it is tested on a renewable energy fuelled multi-energy system in a commercial building.The primary energy devices of the multi-energy system consist of biomass gasification-based power generation unit,heat recovery unit,heat exchanger,absorption chiller,elec-tric chiller,biomass boiler,building integrated photovoltaic and photovoltaic thermal hybrid solar collector.The variable efficiency owing to weather condition and part-load operation is also considered.Genetic algorithm is adopted to determine the optimal design capacity and operating capacity of energy devices for the first-stage and second-stage optimization,respectively.The two optimization stages are interrelated;thus,the optimal design and operation of the multi-energy system can be obtained simultaneously and effectively.With the adoption of the proposed novel capacity optimization approach,there is a 14%reduction of year-round biomass consumption compared to one with the conventional capacity design approach.
