2008 Volume 34 Pages 90-96
Osaka Gas Co., Ltd has been developing technologies for energy saving in the residential sector. Especially, we concentrate our resources into the development of fuel cell cogeneration systems recently. The system has excellent ability of energy saving. However, amount of energy saving depends on how to operate the system. Patterns of residential energy consumption are more complicate than industrial use and depend on individuals. Therefore, it is not easy to develop a control method for the system that can be generally applied to wide variety of residential use. In this paper, the control method for hydrogen driven PEFC cogeneration systems for plural houses developed by Osaka Gas is presented and its effectiveness is demonstrated.
