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2. MARKET INVESTIGATION<br />

• ECH price 1.800DKK/kW 9<br />

• ABS electricity consumption neglected<br />

• Discount factor 5%<br />

2.4.1 Three solutions<br />

In order to examine which part <strong>of</strong> a pr<strong>of</strong>itability that arrives from the<br />

SOFC in itself <strong>and</strong> which part that arrives from adding the absorption<br />

chiller, three configurations are now considered <strong>and</strong> compared:<br />

(A) Grid + ECH. All electricity is bought from the grid, <strong>and</strong> the air<br />

conditioning is purely electrical (ECH). Hot water <strong>and</strong> space heating<br />

is done with natural gas (efficiency 1,0). So this is the normal<br />

configuration <strong>of</strong> a hotel.<br />

(B) SOFC + HotWater + ECH. A SOFC is installed <strong>and</strong> the waste<br />

heat is used to heat up all the hot water for the hotel, but the air<br />

conditioning is still made by an electrical unit. The size <strong>of</strong> the SOFC<br />

is made so the net production <strong>of</strong> electricity equals the total electricity<br />

dem<strong>and</strong> <strong>of</strong> the hotel including the electrical air condition when the<br />

SOFC runs at full load 24/7. This means importing electricity from<br />

the grid during peak load hours, while electricity will be sold to the<br />

grid during hours with less electricity consumption in the hotel. It<br />

is assumed that the buying <strong>and</strong> selling price for the electricity is the<br />

same 10 . Space heating is done by natural gas.<br />

(C) SOFC + HotWater + ABS + ECH. A SOFC is installed <strong>and</strong> the waste<br />

heat is used to heat up all the hot water as well as running an<br />

absorption air conditioner. Due to heat exchanger efficiency it is<br />

assumed that only 80% <strong>of</strong> the waste heat can be extracted from the<br />

exhaust gas. The water heating is done entirely with waste heat, <strong>and</strong><br />

the rest <strong>of</strong> the waste heat energy is used int the absorption cooling 11 .<br />

9 Derived from the market investigation in appendix A.5 page 221<br />

10 This is a somewhat crude assumption, even though the net export <strong>of</strong> electricity is<br />

zero but again these calculations are only approximations, meant to show the overall<br />

trends.<br />

11 in praxis the absorption cooling unit will <strong>of</strong> course be the physically first unit to use<br />

some <strong>of</strong> the waste heat, since it needs higher temperatures than the hot water heating.<br />

But the ABS is allowed no more waste energy than what will leave enough waste heat<br />

for the water heating.<br />

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