Development and performance analysis of a concentrating collector combined plant for multigeneration purposes

In this study, an integrated energy plant based on parabolic collector has been developed to obtain compressed hydrogen and useful products, and also, a performance analysis of this system has been performed. Today, due to the increasing global warming and to meet environmental impact policies, this integrated energy system has been designed as renewable power-based. Investigated integrated plant consists of seven subsystems. These are the solar collector cycle to generate heat energy from the renewable energy source, the distillation cycle to obtain freshwater from seawater, the hydrogen production and compression cycle to produce compressed hydrogen, the Kalina cycle to convert heat energy to mechanical power, organic Rankine cycle to recycle waste heat and convert it to electricity, the ejector cooling cycle for cooling output and drying subsystem. In addition, thermal power storage systems are integrated into the plant in order to ensure the continuity of useful outputs that are tried to be obtained from the integrated system. EES software program is utilized to perform the performance assessment of integrated energy system. When the performance analysis of an integrated energy plant is performed, the energy and exergy performances of the whole plant are computed as 59.34% and 56.51%, respectively. At the same time, thermodynamic and performance assessment of each subsystem within the integrated plant is performed with this software program. It is thought that this integrated energy system will shed light on the literature in this field as it is based on renewable energy as well as being able to produce hydrogen and store this hydrogen by compressing.