Reliability and availability analysis of redundant BCHP (building cooling, heating and power) system

Adequacy assessment of power systems incorporating building cooling, heating and power plants

“…In case of heat production, there is always possibility of some excess electric power generation which is difficult to be disposed, especially if there is no demand in consumer side. However, in case of electricity production, the extra heat can be recovered [31].…”

“…The methods were improved in [29,30] in terms of risk analysis of the BCHP systems in order to achieve the best optimization model of the systems. An analytical approach based on the Markov method is presented in [31] to evaluate the availability as well as the unavailability of the BCHP system based in the failure and repair rate of each BCHP system's component. Ref.…”

Economic and environmental optimization for distributed energy resource systems coupled with district energy networks

“…Hence, the optimal design of relatively complex DER systems is important to promote their penetration. Buoro et al [12] focused on cogeneration and trigeneration groups to select the best DER superstructure. They optimized the types and number of PGUs (power generation units) along with absorption chillers.…”

“…The minimization of the total annual cost for instalment, maintenance and operation was the top priority during the optimization of DER system [12,15]. Furthermore, factors such as selling electricity to the national grid and the annual cost of carbon emissions were also calculated in the objective function.…”

Multi-criteria Performance Analysis of BCHP System Taking Reliability and Availability into Consideration

“…Failure modes and effects analysis as a qualitative method is most widely used, and fault tree analysis, reliability block d iagrams, and Markov analysis are the three most widely used quantitative methods [6]. Markov analysis has been applied to the reliability analysis of co mbined heating and power (CHP) system [7] and BCHP system [8]. Moreover, the reliab ility assessment with Monte Carlo simulat ion was emp loyed to evaluate two CHP schemes [9], and the equip ment reliability was considered into the optimal design of cogeneration system of desalination and power [10].…”