Large scale power production benefits from the high efficiency of gas-steam combined cycles. In the lower power range, fuel cells are a good candidate to combine with gas turbines. Such systems can achieve efficiencies exceeding 60%. High temperature Solid Oxide Fuel Cells (SOFC) offer good opportunities for this coupling. In this paper, a systematic method to select a design according to user ...

Because of the fickle nature renewable sources energy production, professionals in this sector have developed hybrid systems (HRES) that offer a constant and stable load supply. This research intends to build off-grid (HES) Malang, Indonesia, uses solar generator, wind turbine, biogas power public buildings. The HOMER program was used construct model. Following computations, multiple system mod...

This paper reviews the fundamentals of Exergy Cost Theory, an energy cost accounting methodology to evaluate physical costs products systems and their associated waste. Besides, a mathematical computationally approach is presented, which will allow practitioner carry out studies on production regardless structural complexity. The exergy theory was proposed in 1986 by Valero et al. “General savi...

Thermodynamic, exergetic and thermoeconomic analyses were performed on two types of double-effect LiBr–water absorption refrigeration systems (ARS) for use with a 5-kW high-temperature proton exchange membrane fuel cell (HT-PEMFC) as heat source. Proper temperatures the high-pressure generator, combined generator condenser, absorber evaporator determined to meet requirements constant cooling de...

In this study, diagnosis of a 300-MW combined cycle power plant under faulty conditions was performed using a thermoeconomic method called modified productive structure analysis. The malfunction and dysfunction, unit cost of irreversibility and lost cost flow rate for each component were calculated for the cases of pre-fixed malfunction and the reference conditions. A commercial simulating soft...

A small-scale solar organic Rankine cycle (ORC) is a promising renewable energy-driven power generation technology that can be used in the rural areas of developing countries. A prototype was developed and tested for its performance characteristics under a range of solar source temperatures. The solar ORC system power output was calculated based on the thermal and solar collector efficiency. Th...