Performance analysis and application of a novel combined cooling, heating and power system integrated with multi-energy storage system

The dynamic fluctuations of user energy demand places the combined cooling, heating and power (CCHP) system in a perpetual state of off-design operation, leading to significant performance deterioration. Integrating an energy storage system with the CCHP system is an effective approach to this issue. However, conventional methods often segregate the storage of cooling load, heating load and power of CCHP system, limiting their conversion and resulting in suboptimal utilization and low efficiency. Therefore, this study proposes a novel CCHP system integrated with multi-energy storage system, allowing flexible release cooling load, heating load and power to meet diverse user load profiles. Mathematical modeling, thermodynamic analysis and environmental assessment are conducted. The case study demonstrates that the proposed system surpasses the conventional CCHP system in exergy efficiency ηex, primary energy rate PER, primary energy saving ratio PESR, carbon dioxide emission reduction ratio CDERR and cost saving ratio CSR of the proposed system increase by 3.1 %, 13.6 %, 9.0 %, 6.2 % and 8.4 %, respectively. The proposed system effectively balances user energy demand and energy supplied by the CCHP system, efficient utilization of diverse energies, significantly enhancing off-design performance, and yielding high efficiency, energy saving, and reduced carbon emissions.