Host: The Japan Society of Mechanical Engineers
Name : [in Japanese]
Date : July 10, 2017 - July 12, 2017
This study focuses on solid oxide fuel cell (SOFC) for commercial buildings. Although SOFCs have high power generation efficiency, it was predicted that SOFCs would not be adapted by buildings with low thermal demand such as office buildings. The objective of this study is to investigate the environmental and economic effects using optimization model when SOFCs are shared by two different types of commercial buildings. Primary energy reduction rate are used as the indicator of the environmental effect. In this study, 21 cases of combination of 7 kinds of buildings were analyzed. The results show that sharing SOFCs is effective for almost all cases. Especially in the combination of hotel and office, primary energy reduction rate is enhanced by 12% more than the case installing SOFCs to individual single building.
