Energy and Environmental Performance Analysis of Biomass-fuelled Combined Cooling and Heating System for Commercial Building Retrofit: An Italian Case Study

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• 作者：Elisa Moretti^a ; Marco Barbanera^a ; ^{marco.barbanera@unipg.it} ; Daniele Foschini^b ; Cinzia Buratti^a ; Franco Cotana^a
• 关键词：Biomass heating and cooling (BHC) ; Absorption chiller ; Life cycle assessment (LCA) ; Greenhouse gas (GHG) emission ; Climate change ; Environmental sustainability
• 刊名：Energy Procedia
• 出版年：2016
• 出版时间：November 2016
• 年：2016
• 卷：101
• 期：Complete
• 页码：376-383
• 全文大小：673 K
• 卷排序：101

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This study focuses on the operating performance of a biomass boiler (100 kW) coupled with an absorption chiller machine at the service of a commercial building in central Italy. A detailed life cycle environmental assessment (LCA) was performed by comparing the biomass-fuelled system to conventional system, using the SimaPro software. To assess the environmental impact, experimental data, such as energy consumptions and emission factors of the biomass boiler, were used as input data. Biomass-fuelled system was found to have the lowest impact in cumulative energy demand (CED), global warming potential (GWP), and ReCiPe single score method.