The paper reports on the performance analysis of cogenerative and trigenerative plants based on Micro Gas Turbines. The core of the system is a natural-gas-fuelled Turbec T100 operating on a regenerated open-air cycle.
A code specifically developed by the authors to simulate the micro gas turbine in cogeneration plants, and already checked against experimental data, has been upgraded to simulate the unit’s behavior when facing also a cooling demand (trigenerative case).
For this purpose the model of a water-LiBr single-effect absorption chiller driven by hot water has been used.
The analysis cover all the unit’s application range and represent a start for its economic evaluation
