Dynamic simulation of an HP-ORC-Heat Storage pilot plant for an economic evaluation and necessary cost reduction

Scharrer D, Bazan P, German R (2020)


Publication Language: English

Publication Type: Conference contribution

Publication year: 2020

Event location: Bangkok / Virtual

Abstract

A novel pumped thermal energy storage (PTES) system with a heat pump (HP) and an Organic Rankine Cycle (ORC) is built and investigated at the Energie Campus Nürnberg, Germany. The basic idea is that surplus electricity available during the day is converted into heat with the HP and stored in a sensible hot water thermal storage. This enables a shift of e.g. photovoltaic electricity from day to night, as the stored heat can be converted back into electricity with the ORC at night. In order to examine the economic efficiency of the system, a dynamic simulation was set up using the AnyLogic simulation software. For a small community of 40 houses, it was shown that under current german market conditions, no economic use is possible without a significant cost reduction of the PTES. However, taking into account current trends in the development of feed-in tariffs in Germany, an economic use will be possible within the next few years.

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APA:

Scharrer, D., Bazan, P., & German, R. (2020). Dynamic simulation of an HP-ORC-Heat Storage pilot plant for an economic evaluation and necessary cost reduction. In Proceedings of the International Conference on Applied Energy 2020. Bangkok / Virtual.

MLA:

Scharrer, Daniel, Peter Bazan, and Reinhard German. "Dynamic simulation of an HP-ORC-Heat Storage pilot plant for an economic evaluation and necessary cost reduction." Proceedings of the International Conference on Applied Energy 2020, Bangkok / Virtual 2020.

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