CHU Shangling, ZHANG Heng, CHEN Haiping, GAO Dan
Due to the complementary advantages of natural gas, such as stability, continuity, high calorific value and convenient transportation, and solar energy, such as clean, environmental protection and renewable, a micro-gas turbine coupled low-concentrating photovoltaic/thermal (LCPV/T) CCHP system was proposed. An optimization model was established with the objectives of primary energy saving rate, carbon dioxide emission reduction rate, annual total cost saving rate, and exergy efficiency, and the strength Pareto evolutionary algorithm II (SPEA-II) optimization algorithm was used to solve the model comprehensively with the decision-making method combining the technique for order preference by similarity to an ideal solution (TOPSIS) and weight entropy method to obtain Pareto optimal solution. Results show that the comprehensive performance of the CCHP system is best when the LCPV/T area is 48.09 m3, the LCPV/T flow rate is 50 L/h, the capacity of the low-temperature water source heat pump is 80.41 kW, the capacity of the high-temperature water source heat pump is 250.03 kW, the capacity of the gas-fired boiler is 400.11 kW, and the heat transfer efficiency of the waste heat recovery boiler is 96.07%. After optimization, the average annual primary energy saving rate, carbon dioxide emission reduction rate, annual total cost saving rate and the exergy efficiency of the system improved by 7.11%, 6.46%, 4.35% and 5.64% compared with the pre-optimization, respectively.