It is commonly assumed that dispatch of micro-combined heat and power (micro-CHP) should be heat driven, where the unit … article investigates cost-effective operating strategies for three micro-CHP technologies; Stirling engine, gas engine, and …

The effects of applying micro-CHP systems to a single dwelling, and to various dwellings within a group, are … investigated by using gas and electricity consumption data recorded on a 1-min time base across a full year. Micro-CHP systems …, suggesting that the overall effect of micro-CHP systems will be to provide highly dispersed base-load generation. Consideration …

potential market for the commercialisation of small-scale fuel cells and other micro-CHP. Choice of temporal precision is also … averaging effects that result in misleading environmental and economic outcomes for cost-optimal micro-CHP systems. Much finer … technical qualities of solid oxide fuel cell and stirling engine micro-CHP systems. This thesis is generally supported by the …