Rule-based energy management strategies for PEMFC-based micro-CHP systems: A comparative analysis.

Heliyon

Instituto Universitario de Automática e Informática Industrial, Universitat Politècnica de València, Camino de Vera s/n, Valencia, 46022, Spain.

Published: September 2024

Commercial PEMFC-based micro-CHP systems are operated by rule-based energy management strategies. Each of these strategies constitutes a different way to meet the household energy demand (following the heat demand, following the electricity demand, the maximum of the two, etc.). Previous studies demonstrate that which of them is the best - the one that manages to meet the demand at the lowest operating cost- on the particular scenario in which the micro-CHP system works (gas and electricity prices, annual energy demands, ability to export electricity to the grid, etc.). This paper aims to explore this dependence relationship and to deepen our understanding of it. To this end, a parametric analysis is conducted and the performances achieved by four rule-based operating strategies are compared. The parameters whose influence is studied, and through which the scenario is jointly characterized, are: (1) energy prices (electricity and natural gas), (2) feed-in tariff, (3) stack degradation, (4) climate and (5) heat to power ratio of the demand. The results show this dependence relationship in a clear and more comprehensive way, and offer a better understanding of its nature. From this improved understanding it can be inferred, among other things, that adapting the strategy to the scenario can generate annual savings of up to 14.5 percentage points. Moreover, this enhanced characterization of that dependence relationship can be useful for the design of a new operating strategy, a strategy that, without falling into the complexity that an optimal energy management approach (based on linear programming) involves, manages to exploit the savings potential of micro-CHP systems, thus facilitating their future mass commercialization.

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