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Contents<br />

5.4.1 Closest Approach Temperature Difference . . . . . . . 142<br />

5.4.2 Pressure Losses . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 143<br />

5.4.3 Heat Losses . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 145<br />

5.4.4 (Other) Key Parameters . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 146<br />

5.5 Total optimization <strong>of</strong> system . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 149<br />

5.5.1 Absorption subsystem . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 149<br />

5.5.2 Current density . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 152<br />

5.5.3 Future: ∆T SOFC = 120 ◦ C . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 153<br />

6 Cases <strong>and</strong> Economics 155<br />

6.1 Air conditioning <strong>of</strong> hotels . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 155<br />

6.2 High humidity climate . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 156<br />

6.2.1 Seychelles . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 156<br />

6.2.2 Bangkok . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 157<br />

6.3 Low humidity climate . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 160<br />

6.3.1 Las Vegas . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 160<br />

6.3.2 Water consumption . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 161<br />

6.4 Economics . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 163<br />

7 Discussion 165<br />

7.1 The thermodynamical model . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 165<br />

7.1.1 Accuracy <strong>and</strong> sensitivity . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 167<br />

7.2 Economical considerations . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 168<br />

7.2.1 Auxillary Power Unit (APU) . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 168<br />

7.2.2 Micro Combined Heat <strong>and</strong> Power (µCHP) . . . . . . . 169<br />

7.2.3 Distributed Generation (DG) . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 171<br />

7.3 Other considerations . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 176<br />

8 Conclusion 177<br />

9 Further work 181<br />

Bibliography 183<br />

Appendices 187<br />

A Market investigation 189<br />

A.1 Market Investigation Appendix - Introduction . . . . . . . . . 190<br />

A.2 APU appendix . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 191<br />

A.2.1 Ship APU appendix . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 191<br />

A.3 CHP appendix . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 196<br />

A.3.1 Assumptions . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 196<br />

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