In this paper, energetic performance comparison of three trigeneration systems is presented. The systems considered are SOFC-trigeneration, biomass-trigeneration, and solar-trigeneration systems. This study compares the performance of the systems considered when there is only electrical power...

In this study, energy and exergy analyses of a biomass trigeneration system using an organic Rankine cycle (ORC) are presented. Four cases are considered for analysis: electrical-power, cooling-cogeneration, heating-cogeneration and trigeneration cases. The results obtained reveal that the best...

In this study, a thermodynamic comparison of five supercritical carbon dioxide Brayton cycles integrated with a solar power tower was conducted. The Brayton cycles analyzed were simple Brayton cycle, regenerative Brayton cycle, recompression Brayton cycle, pre-compression Brayton cycle, and...

In this study, solar field sizing and overall performance of different vapor cycles are examined. The systems considered are parabolic trough solar collectors integrated with either a binary vapor cycle or a steam Rankine cycle (SRC). The binary vapor cycle consists of an SRC as a topping cycle...

In this paper, exergy method is applied to analyze the gas turbine cycle cogeneration with inlet air cooling and evaporative aftercooling of the compressor discharge. The exergy destruction rate in each component of cogeneration is evaluated in detail. The effects of some main parameters on the...

In this paper, we introduce a new thermodynamic concept of greenizing energy systems and propose a new greenization factor which is defined as the amount of environmental impact reduction by the system greenized divided by the reference environmental impact for the original (reference) case. A...

In this paper, energy and exergy analyses of the geothermal-based hydrogen production via thermochemical water decomposition using a new, four-step copper–chlorine (Cu–Cl) cycle are conducted, and the respective cycle energy and exergy efficiencies are examined. Also, a parametric study is...

We present simple and accurate models to determine the heat-transfer coefficients for both spherically and cylindrically shaped food products, namely, tomatoes, pears, cucumbers, and squashes exposed to hydrocooling (water-cooling) experiments at different water temperatures. The effective...

Both thermoeconomic modeling and multi-objective optimization studies are undertaken for a novel integrated multigeneration system, containing a biomass combustor, an organic Rankine cycle to produce electricity, a double-effect absorption chiller for cooling, a heat exchanger, a proton exchange...

In this study, energy and exergy analyses are carried out for the charging period of an ice-on-coil thermal energy storage system. The present model is developed using a thermal resistance network technique. First, the time-dependent variations of the predicted total stored energy, mass of ice,...