Journal
ENERGY AND BUILDINGS
Volume 42, Issue 6, Pages 896-903Publisher
ELSEVIER SCIENCE SA
DOI: 10.1016/j.enbuild.2009.12.011
Keywords
Wood pellets; Thermal simulation; Micro-cogeneration; Residential building; Stirling engine
Funding
- Region Ile-de-France
- ADEME (French Agency for Environment and Energy Management)
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Cogeneration provides heat and power in a more efficient way than separate production. Micro-cogeneration (micro-CHP) is an emerging solution for the improvement of energy and environmental assessments of residential buildings. A wood pellet Stirling engine micro-CHP unit has been studied in order to characterize its annual performance when integrated to a building. First, through a test bench experiment, both transient and steady state behaviors of the micro-CHP unit have been characterized and modeled. Then a more complete model representing a hot water and heating system including the micro-CHP unit and a stratified storage tank has been carried out. This model has been coupled to a building model. A sensitivity analysis by simulation shows that the dimensioning of different elements of the system strongly influences its global energy performance. (C) 2010 Elsevier B.V. All rights reserved.
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