Installation and Instrumentation of a Micro-CHP Demonstration Facility

Author

Nicholas Alexander Stone

Issuing Body

Mississippi State University

Advisor

Chamra, Louay M.

Committee Member

Steele, W. Glenn

Committee Member

Mago, Pedro

Date of Degree

12-9-2006

Document Type

Graduate Thesis - Open Access

Major

Mechanical Engineering

Degree Name

Master of Science

College

James Worth Bagley College of Engineering

Department

Department of Mechanical Engineering

Abstract

Micro-Cooling, Heating and Power (CHP) is the decentralized generation of electricity in which normally wasted heat is recovered for use in heating and cooling of the space. A micro-CHP demonstration facility is needed to showcase the system and allow for experiments to be performed. This thesis illustrates the steps taken for the installation and instrumentation of a Micro-CHP (Cooling, Heating, and Power) demonstration facility. Equipment sizing was performed by creating an accurate building model and performing a transient building analysis. Temperature, pressure, flow rate, and relative humidity are measured in order to determine accurate energy balances through each piece of equipment in the micro-CHP system. The data is collected using a number of LabView subroutines while a Visual Basic program was developed to display the information.

URI

https://hdl.handle.net/11668/19008

Comments

Cooling Heating and Power||Micro CHP||Instrumentation

Recommended Citation

Stone, Nicholas Alexander, "Installation and Instrumentation of a Micro-CHP Demonstration Facility" (2006). Theses and Dissertations. 2752.
https://scholarsjunction.msstate.edu/td/2752