Study of the Performance of a Photovoltaic and Heat Pump Coupling System in a Low-Carbon Community
Publication: Journal of Energy Engineering
Volume 150, Issue 3
Abstract
Clean heating transformation and photovoltaic (PV) promotion gradually have become the keys to realize dual carbon strategy goals. Based on this, the combined application of building-integrated PV (BIPV) systems and air-source heat pump (ASHP) systems has received widespread attention. However, the current combined system still presents problems such as the mismatching in time between PV output and heating load. Therefore, in this paper, a novel BIPV and ASHP coupling system is proposed, and the operation parameters were optimized using low-carbon community as an example. A conventional PV and heat pump (HP) combined system, ASHP heating, and coal-fired heating were employed as the baseline and compared with the novel system. The results show that the optimized system can improve the PV power local accommodation rate by 43% compared with a conventional PV and ASHP coupling system. In terms of economic and environmental benefits, the operating cost of the optimized system is 50% of the cost of the ASHP system. Compared with coal-fired heating system, the annual air pollutant and carbon emissions can be reduced by 92% and 57%, respectively. The system also can improve the stability of power grid operation. The demand for power capacity can be improved by 62% and the annual load balance of the power grid can be improved by 29.5%.
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Data Availability Statement
All data, models, or code that support the findings of this study are available from the corresponding author upon reasonable request.
Acknowledgments
The authors are grateful for the financial support provided by the Science and Technology Project of the State Grid Corporation-Research and Demonstration of Key Technologies of Hot and Cold Energy Control System in Near Zero Carbon Park (5400-202272427A-2-0-ZN).
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Volume 150 • Issue 3 • June 2024
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Received: Aug 7, 2023
Accepted: Dec 21, 2023
Published online: Feb 29, 2024
Published in print: Jun 1, 2024
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