OCTOBER 19-20, 2012 - YMCA University of Science & Technology

Proceedings of the National Conference on
Trends and Advances in Mechanical Engineering,
YMCA University of Science & Technology, Faridabad, Haryana, Oct 19-20, 2012
producing the cooling load of 60% of above losses in the combination of vapour absorption machine. This is the
unique and advanced techniques in itself and it can be said that this system is the self sufficient system.
4. CONCLUSION
Experimental results were obtained from power plant and tri-generation systems. In the power plant, there were
the losses of 31.25% as the stack gases but in the tri-generation system 51.7% of stack gases was utilized in
operating the vapor absorption machine through a heat recovery unit. The COP of the system was 0.52 and room
temperature was between 0 0 C-5 0 C.The thermal power from the engine water cooling jacket (31.25%) was
utilized for heating purposes and the temperature of heating medium was noted 60 0 C - 63.5 0 C, while 72% heat
can be recovered through the exhaust gases after heat recovery unit. The total losses in power plant were 68.75%,
in which 62.5% was the recoverable losses. These recoverable losses were reflected in the form of cooling and
heating in combined form for tri-generation system. Therefore, results show that power plant combined with
absorption chiller (gases driven into generator through heat recovery unit) gives the better utilization of thermal
losses which were in the form of stack gases and engine water cooling jacket. This was understood till now that
there is no meaning of wastage in the world but this paper has presented useful meaning of wastage. It is nothing
but the theme of this paper.
NOMENCLATURE
HRU
GEN
VAM
m a
m pg
COP
Heat Recovery Unit
Generator of absorption machine
Vapor Absorption Machine
Mass Flow Rate of air
Mass Flow Rate of Producer gas
Coefficient of Performance
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