A mass of thermal energy from the combined cooling, heating, and power (CCHP) system will be wasted by the buildings with low ratio of heat to power demand. To further improve the using efficiency of the excess thermal energy, an active method, which adds the organic Rankine cycle (ORC) equipment in the CCHP system, is configured. A complementary configuration of this CCHP-ORC is also investigated. This paper presents a matrix modeling approach to establish a mathematical model of the CCHP-ORC system. The CCHP-ORC system can be viewed as a mult...
