This thesis is part of a larger project which began in response to a request by the Spanish water agengy, Cadagua, for advice on life cycle assessment (LCA) and environmental impacts of Cadagua operated wastewater treatment plants. The project uses the LCA software GaBi and focuses on La Gavia Wastewater Treatment Plant in Madrid. This thesis analyzes three sludge management options that La Gav...

Recently, cogeneration systems (CGS) have been installed in various factories and buildings. CGS is usually connected to various facilities such as refrigerators, reservoirs, and cooling towers, and produces various energies for electric loads, air-conditioning loads, heating loads, and hot water loads (fig.1). Since daily load patterns of the various loads are different, optimal operational pl...

Micro-cogeneration (micro-combined heat and power) is a technology that simultaneously produces decentralized thermal electrical energy with power of less than 50 kWel. This consists using the waste generated by thermodynamic process to meet heating hot water demands buildings. The use biomass as fuel offers important advantages: renewable energy, carbon neutrality, availability, low cost. Furt...

exergy analysis of an integrated molten carbonate fuel cell-turbo expander-steam turbine hybrid cycle has been presented in this study. the proposed cycle has been used as a sustainable energy approach to provide a micro hybrid power plant with high exergy efficiency. to generate electricity by the mentioned system, an externally reformed molten carbonate fuel cell located upstream of the combi...

This paper proposes on-line optimal operation planning and control of cogeneration systems (CGS). CGS is usually connected to various facilities such as refrigerators, reservoirs, and cooling towers. In order to generate optimal operation planning for CGS, startup/shutdown status and/or input/output values of the facilities for each control interval should be determined. The facilities may have...

A model based, energy focused, quasi-stationary waste heat driven, internal combustion engine (ICE) centred design methodology for cogeneration (heat and electricity) systems is presented. The developed parametric model could be used for system sizing, performance evaluation, and optimization. This paper presents a systematic approach to model the behaviour of the CHP system using heat recovery...

This report summarizes a research/demonstration project in which a new high school facility was designed and constructed to combine a custom built 230 kW cogeneration package with four integrated active desiccant rooftop (IADR) systems to serve as high-efficiency dedicated outdoor air systems (DOAS). The IADR systems were modified to include hot water coils to use the waste heat provided by the...