This paper presents the investigation of energy and cost saving of microgeneration systems which consist of conventional, load sharing, renewable energy and hybrid-renewable energy systems application featuring single...This paper presents the investigation of energy and cost saving of microgeneration systems which consist of conventional, load sharing, renewable energy and hybrid-renewable energy systems application featuring single detached house and office buildings by implementing spreadsheet modeling. Microsoft excel is employed as the spreadsheet application in this study. The system performance of each case is calculated under typical weather of ottawa, canada. These cases are calculated and analyzed in terms of thermal/cooling load （building demand） and natural gas/electricity consumption （energy supply） as well as the financial part by involving several parameters which are initial cost, annual energy consumption cost, annual operational and maintenance cost, inflation rate, and return on investment. Moreover, a house and an office have the same geometry of 200 mE. Total of seven cases modeling are developed; Case-1- a house with boiler and chiller, Case-2- an office with boiler and chiller, Case-3-a simple sum of Case l and Case 2, Case-4- a load-sharing model, Case-5- a load-sharing with GSHP （ground source heat pump）, Case-6- a load-sharing with ground source heat pump-fuel cell hybrid system （FC-GSHP）and Case-7- a load-sharing with GSHP--photovoltaic hybrid system （PVT-GSHP）. As the results, it will be observed the efficiency of the load-sharing, renewable energy, hybrid-renewable energy implementation comparing to the conventional system.展开更多
文摘This paper presents the investigation of energy and cost saving of microgeneration systems which consist of conventional, load sharing, renewable energy and hybrid-renewable energy systems application featuring single detached house and office buildings by implementing spreadsheet modeling. Microsoft excel is employed as the spreadsheet application in this study. The system performance of each case is calculated under typical weather of ottawa, canada. These cases are calculated and analyzed in terms of thermal/cooling load （building demand） and natural gas/electricity consumption （energy supply） as well as the financial part by involving several parameters which are initial cost, annual energy consumption cost, annual operational and maintenance cost, inflation rate, and return on investment. Moreover, a house and an office have the same geometry of 200 mE. Total of seven cases modeling are developed; Case-1- a house with boiler and chiller, Case-2- an office with boiler and chiller, Case-3-a simple sum of Case l and Case 2, Case-4- a load-sharing model, Case-5- a load-sharing with GSHP （ground source heat pump）, Case-6- a load-sharing with ground source heat pump-fuel cell hybrid system （FC-GSHP）and Case-7- a load-sharing with GSHP--photovoltaic hybrid system （PVT-GSHP）. As the results, it will be observed the efficiency of the load-sharing, renewable energy, hybrid-renewable energy implementation comparing to the conventional system.
