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C H A P T E R<br />

6<br />

CASES AND ECONOMICS<br />

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

In chapter 2 three different market segments - APU, CHP <strong>and</strong> DG - were<br />

examined <strong>and</strong> it was concluded that Distributed Generation (DG) was<br />

the best one for integrating a SOFC system with an absorption chilling<br />

unit 1 . A hotel was seen to be an interesting industry for applying DG<br />

technology because the dem<strong>and</strong> <strong>of</strong> electricity, air conditioning <strong>and</strong> hot<br />

water to some extend matches the supply <strong>of</strong> the SOFC-ABS.<br />

In section 2.4 it was concluded that a system combined <strong>of</strong> a SOFC-<br />

ABS is more pr<strong>of</strong>itable in a climate where AC is needed all year (Hot<br />

Climate) compared to a climate where it is only required part <strong>of</strong> the year<br />

(Normal Climate).<br />

In this chapter potential geographical locations for a SOFC-ABS unit<br />

will be discussed, the water consumption <strong>of</strong> the cooling tower will be<br />

evaluated, <strong>and</strong> the assumptions in the economical calculations will be<br />

compared to the results <strong>of</strong> the thermodynamical model.<br />

better<br />

1 APU for ships also looked promising but it was concluded that DG was slightly<br />

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