Exergy-economics of a district heating system
Conference
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OSTI ID:483931
- Univ. of Twente, Enschede (Netherlands). Dept. of Mechanical Engineering
- Stork Comprimo B.V., Amsterdam (Netherlands)
The objective of this paper is to define the exergetic pay back period. This period can be used for energy efficient systems as part of a more general assessment also including financial aspects. For the conservation of the exergy of natural resources investments with a shorter exergetic pay back period will be preferable. To determine exergy savings of exergy efficient systems the exergetic life cycle assessment has been used. As an example a district heating system in combination with a cogeneration plant based on natural gas has been selected. The irreversibility taking place during the life cycle of the system due to the construction, operation, dismantling and waste processing is determined and compared with domestic central heating also based on natural gas. The analysis has been performed for four alternative district heating systems. The exergetic pay back period, defined as additional exergy invested divided by exergy saving, is shown to be between 0.07 and 1.2 years. The life cycle exergy saving varies from 24% to 49%, mainly depending on the density of the distribution system. In addition the differences in exergy saving are due to the fact that the small scale alternatives have a smaller gas turbine, which has a lower exergetic efficiency when compared with the big scale projects. There is no direct relation between the exergetic and financial pay back period in this study. However, the financial pay back period is roughly one order of magnitude higher than the exergetic pay back period. From this can be concluded that heat distribution systems with exergetic pay back periods of more than one year have unacceptable financial pay back periods.
- OSTI ID:
- 483931
- Report Number(s):
- CONF-961105--; ISBN 0-7918-1527-7
- Country of Publication:
- United States
- Language:
- English
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