Assessing the Applicability of Trigeneration in the Hotel Sector

Abstract

The objective of the present work is to propose a methodology through which the decision makers can assess the feasibility of promoting trigeneration systems in the hotel industry. The power demand of a representative hotel in N. Cyprus was monitored and segregated into base and cooling components for typical days of summer. On the other hand, five hotels were selected for conducting surveys on their electricity and heat demands. Correlations were obtained for the representative hotel for two different scenarios of capacity sizing; in scenario 1, it was aimed to meet the maximum value of the base electrical load of the hotels and in scenario 2 the aim was to meet the minimum base load. The experimental correlations were used in determining the capacities of the trigeneration systems for the other five hotels. An economic analysis showed that the application of trigeneration systems to the hotel sector in N. Cyprus can be feasible.