Combined heat and power: street-level domestic microgrids
Combined heat and power: street-level domestic microgrids
Residential housing in the UK accounts for about a quarter
of the country’s carbon dioxide emissions. The major
component of these emissions is associated with space
heating, predominantly from gas. District heating
schemes, at the community level, using combined heat
and power (CHP) have the potential to deliver significant
savings in carbon dioxide emissions. This paper considers
various CHP schemes at both the individual house and the
microgrid street level, where a cluster of up to ten houses
are considered as a linked network. It seeks to address the
benefits that may arise from each CHP scheme compared
with a business as usual (BaU) scenario of individual
condensing boilers and electricity from the utility grid.
Three different types of housing stock condition have been
combined with a range of occupancy profiles to produce a
portfolio of hot water and space heating demand scenarios
for two locations in the UK. Climate change adapted test
reference year weather files have been applied to hourly
timestep, domestic building stock simulations. It is shown
that a housing cluster in conjunction with a ‘multi-stage’
CHP system may enable small-scale CHP technologies to
deliver significant carbon and running cost savings over
the BaU scenario.
district heating, environment, mathematical modelling
131-141
Papafragkou, A.
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James, P.A.B.
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Jentsch, M.F.
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Bahaj, A.S.
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2009
Papafragkou, A.
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James, P.A.B.
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Jentsch, M.F.
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Papafragkou, A., James, P.A.B., Jentsch, M.F. and Bahaj, A.S.
(2009)
Combined heat and power: street-level domestic microgrids.
Proceedings of the Institution of Civil Engineers - Energy, 162 (3), .
(doi:10.1680/ener.2009.162.3.131).
Abstract
Residential housing in the UK accounts for about a quarter
of the country’s carbon dioxide emissions. The major
component of these emissions is associated with space
heating, predominantly from gas. District heating
schemes, at the community level, using combined heat
and power (CHP) have the potential to deliver significant
savings in carbon dioxide emissions. This paper considers
various CHP schemes at both the individual house and the
microgrid street level, where a cluster of up to ten houses
are considered as a linked network. It seeks to address the
benefits that may arise from each CHP scheme compared
with a business as usual (BaU) scenario of individual
condensing boilers and electricity from the utility grid.
Three different types of housing stock condition have been
combined with a range of occupancy profiles to produce a
portfolio of hot water and space heating demand scenarios
for two locations in the UK. Climate change adapted test
reference year weather files have been applied to hourly
timestep, domestic building stock simulations. It is shown
that a housing cluster in conjunction with a ‘multi-stage’
CHP system may enable small-scale CHP technologies to
deliver significant carbon and running cost savings over
the BaU scenario.
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Published date: 2009
Keywords:
district heating, environment, mathematical modelling
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URI: http://eprints.soton.ac.uk/id/eprint/73728
ISSN: 1751-4223
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