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Title: | A solid oxide fuel cell (SOFC)-based biogas-from-waste generation system for residential buildings in China : a feasibility study | Authors: | Wang Q Wei, HH Xu, Q |
Issue Date: | 2018 | Source: | Sustainability, 2018, v. 10, no. 7, 2395, p. 1-9 | Abstract: | The building sector consumes a great deal of energy and generates organic waste, and thus has been a cause of considerable environmental concern. One distributed-energy technique, solid oxide fuel cell (SOFC)-based biogas-from-waste generation, has shown promise for waste treatment as well as energy saving in buildings. This study proposes a high-efficiency cooling, heating and electricity-generation system with an SOFC-absorption water-cooled tri-generation configuration. Operations data from a typical high-rise commercial building in Shanghai were analyzed as a case study of the proposed system's economic, environmental, and social feasibility in China. The results indicated that its economic performance was satisfactory, with a short payback period of less than one year if subsidized. Additionally, the system was found to achieve high efficiency: i.e., 85%, as compared to approximately 40% achieved by conventional combustion-powered systems. Finally, in terms of social feasibility, survey respondents not only expressed positive overall attitudes towards the application of the system, but also raised concerns about its long-term operating costs. Given that foreseeable technological advancements promise greater flexibility and reduced space requirements, these results imply that the proposed integrated SOFC multi-generation system will be well-suited to future infrastructure and building projects in China. | Keywords: | Building waste to energy Distributed waste-treatment systems Distributed-energy resources |
Publisher: | Molecular Diversity Preservation International (MDPI) | Journal: | Sustainability | EISSN: | 2071-1050 | DOI: | 10.3390/su10072395 | Rights: | © 2018 by the authors. Licensee MDPI, Basel, Switzerland. This article is an open access article distributed under the terms and conditions of the Creative Commons Attribution (CC BY) license (http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/). The following publication Wang, Q., Wei, H. -., & Xu, Q. (2018). A solid oxide fuel cell (SOFC)-based biogas-from-waste generation system for residential buildings in China: A feasibility study. Sustainability, 10(7), 2395, 1-9 is available at https://dx.doi.org/10.3390/su10072395 |
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