Title: Energy, exergy and exergo-environmental assessment of a novel solar powered Kalina cycle incorporated with micro-CCHP for poly-generation

Authors: Victor Oluwatobi Adebayo; Michael Adedeji; Muhammad Abid; Olusola Bamisile

Addresses: Department of Energy Systems Engineering, Faculty of Engineering, Cyprus International University, Nicosia, North Cyprus Via Mersin 10, Turkey ' Department of Energy Systems Engineering, Faculty of Engineering, Cyprus International University, Nicosia, North Cyprus Via Mersin 10, Turkey ' Department of Energy Systems Engineering, Faculty of Engineering, Cyprus International University, Nicosia, North Cyprus Via Mersin 10, Turkey ' School of Mechanical and Electrical Engineering, University of Electronic Science and Technology of China, Chengdu, Sichuan, China

Abstract: In this study, a solar parabolic trough collector combined with a Kalina cycle, multi-stage flash desalination unit, a proton exchange membrane electrolyser for hydrogen production, and a micro-combined cooling, heating, and power system is presented. Systematic energy, exergy, and exergo-environmental evaluation are used to analyse the viability of the integrated systems as the most effective approach for performance assessment of integrated systems. The energy and exergy efficiencies of the overall system is observed to be 50.51% and 3.27% respectively. The rate of exergy destruction of each component and the overall cycle is determined where the parabolic trough collector is shown to have an exergy destruction rate of 234.4 kW, which is the highest among all the components. The performance of the proposed systems is also checked through a parametric study of the different key parameters.

Keywords: energy; exergy; exergo-environmental; desalination; hydrogen.

DOI: 10.1504/IJEX.2020.111687

International Journal of Exergy, 2020 Vol.33 No.4, pp.358 - 378

Received: 15 Mar 2020
Accepted: 04 May 2020

Published online: 09 Dec 2020 *

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