Simulative evaluation of high temperature versus low temperature heating networks to utilise waste heat from large fuel cells for powering districts
Year: 2024
Type: conference-paper
Abstract: Fuel cells have emerged as promising combined heat and power systems owing to their environment friendly operation and negligible emissions. Since fuel cells also generate heat as a byproduct during operation, this waste heat could be also used for district heating. In this paper, the bidirectional sector coupling of a high powered fuel cell electric vehicle is simulated in order to power a virtual district in Berlin with electricity and heat. This paper displays the simulated heat demand satisfaction by benchmarking a low temperature heating network versus a high temperature heating network. For the scenarios and the neighbourhood considered in this study, it was found that a single fuel cell vehicle can provide about 90 % of total energy to the considered neighbourhood in case of a high temperature district heating system and 99 % in case of a low temperature district heating system.
Source: IET conference proceedings.
Language: English
Subfield: Electrical and Electronic Engineering
Field: Engineering
Domain: Physical Sciences
Open Access status: green
OpenAlex ID: W4405349736