TITLE:
Energy Saving Performance of Detached House with Hydrogen Co-generation System
AUTHORS:
Lianping Xu, Weiju Gao
KEYWORDS:
DER System, Hydrogen Fuel Cell, Simulation, Detached House
JOURNAL NAME:
Energy and Power Engineering,
Vol.7 No.7,
July
30,
2015
ABSTRACT: Energy consumption is increasing every year in building sector, utilization and development of
alternative energy sources and technologies to support the requirements of every house. The hydrogen
fuel cell is one of the latest technologies for distributed energy systems. This research is
aim to grasp the energy saving performance of the hydrogen co-generation system in the detached
house. First, it investigated on the demand-side energy consumption including electricity, cooling,
heating and hot water. Second, it introduced a distributed energy resources (DER) system and set
six cases to analyze the energy utilization. Different options for changing the heating, cooling,
electricity and hot water systems were compared for this type of detached house, assuming basiccase
as a reference. Changes in the fuel used, energy operation machines and also demand side
and supply side were analyzed. Except past case, every case will be operated under the electricitytracking
mode and heat-tracking mode. The comparisons and evaluations of the energy consumption
between cases can suggest the environmental performance of the hydrogen co-generation
system.