ABSTRACT

In this era of global warming and greenhouse effect it is very much necessary to take measures to
mitigate these climate changes. Important contributor to climate change mitigation would be
energy efficiency. Technological innovation is the only way to increase the energy efficiency
which reduces the cost of energy. Cogeneration is one of the technological innovation which can
produce heat and electricity in same cycle at higher efficiency. Cogeneration can be defined as
combined heat and power production. The heat and power output in the cogeneration used by the
same Industry. There is any excess power it is used for the power grid. Moving a step ahead in
innovation trigeneration concept is introduced. Trigeneration is production of combined heating
cooling and power. The cycle is known is combined cooling heating and power(CCHP) cycle.

The need of power heating cooling in the industry at the same time is the motivation for the
concept of trigeneration. Many Industries has waste heat which is not used economically so if the
industry installs the trigeneration plant, it can be run on the waste heat and the combined power
heating and cooling can be produced. For example, food industry shopping malls hospitals need
all the three type of energy produced in trigeneration plant.

A new CCHP system is proposed with super critical CO 2 as the working fluid to reduce
greenhouse effect and improve low grade heat efficiency. The CCHP cycle has a Brayton cycle
at the top and transcritical ejector refrigeration cycle at the bottom. The normal turbine is
replaced with the extraction turbine to tap the steam at an expansion pressure. The ejector is used
in CCHP system instead of throttle valve to reduce the expansion loses which in turn increases
the COP of the system. A mathematical model is developed to simulate the new CCHP system
with two subcritical throttle valves.