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Proceedings of eSim 2004: 3th Conference of IBPSA-Canada

     

THE SIMULATION OF A RESIDENTIAL SPACE-COOLING SYSTEM POWERED BY THE THERMAL OUTPUT OF A COGENERATION DEVICE

Ian Beausoleil-Morrison, Maria Mottillo, Rob Brandon, Paul Sears, Alex Ferguson

Abstract: A component model representing a thermally activated cooling (TAC) unit has been developed within the ESP-r/HOT3000 simulation engine. This model was designed to permit the simulation of cooling systems driven by the thermal output of fuel cells and other cogeneration technologies. This new model was combined with a component model of a fuel-cell cogeneration unit and others representing the balance of the HVAC plant to form a complete system that supplies a house's electricity, domestic hot water, space heating, and space cooling requirements. Extensive testing has been performed to verify the implementation of the TA C unit model into ESP-r/HOT3000 source code and the plant network representing the complete HVAC system. This work provides the platform for future work that will validate the TAC model against empirical data and that will study the energy and greenhouse gas emissions and the technical and economic feasibility of using cogeneration with thermally activated cycles to cool Canadian houses.
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