Powering and Cooling of a Server Room Using a Hybrid Trigeneration System

This paper analyses the potential of feeding a Server Room through a hybrid trigeneration plant supplying electricity and cooling. The system is made up of a solar concentrating collector, combined with a single stage lithium bromide absorber machine. Such a system is able to provide the three energy vectors required according to the size and the characteristic of the load. Models of the main components have been developed using Simulink and different operating conditions are considered and simulated in a practical application. The results obtained confirm the validity of the proposed hybrid trigeneration system, highlighting the need of different and innovative ways to generate power locally in Distributed Generation (DG).