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Energy, Environmental and Economic Performance of a Micro-trigeneration System upon Varying the Electric Vehicle Charging Profiles

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Journal of Sustainable Development of Energy, Water and Environment Systems
Volume 5, Issue 3, September 2017, pp 309-331
DOI: https://doi.org/10.13044/j.sdewes.d5.0158
Sergio Sibilio1 , Antonio Rosato1, Giovanni Ciampi1, Evgueniy Entchev2, Hajo Ribberink2
1 Department of Architecture and Industrial Design, University of Campania “Luigi Vanvitelli”, via San Lorenzo, 81031, Aversa (CE), Italy
2 CanmetENERGY, Natural Resources Canada, 1 Haanel Drive, ON K1A 1M1, Ottawa, Canada

Abstract

The widespread adoption of electric vehicles and electric heat pumps would result in radically different household electrical demand characteristics, while also possibly posing a threat to the stability of the electrical grid. In this paper, a micro-trigeneration system (composed of a 6.0 kWel cogeneration device feeding a 4.5 kWcool electric air-cooled vapor compression water chiller) serving an Italian residential multi-family house was investigated by using the dynamic simulation software TRNSYS. The charging of an electric vehicle was considered by analyzing a set of seven electric vehicle charging profiles representing different scenarios. The simulations were performed in order to evaluate the capability of micro-cogeneration technology in: alleviating the impact on the electric infrastructure (a); saving primary energy (b); reducing the carbon dioxide equivalent emissions (c) and determining the operating costs in comparison to a conventional supply system based on separate energy production (d).

Keywords: Cogeneration, Trigeneration, Electric vehicle, Energy saving, TRNSYS, Carbon dioxide emissions.

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