ENERGY RECYCLING UTILIZATION SYSTEM USING CHEMICAL HEAT PUMP CONTAINER
From the viewpoints of energy and resource problems, an effective energy utilization system for wide area energy management using chemical heat pump container (CHPC) is proposed. In this system, waste heat at factory area is stored as chemical energy in the CHPC. The stored heat is transported with almost no heat loss by the CHPC transportation using truck, train, ship etc. At heat supply area, the stored heat is upgraded to higher temperature heat for heating or lower temperature heat for cooling/refrigerating without adding extra energy by the chemical heat pump function. In this study, the simulation on local recycling energy system using CHPC for wide Tokyo area was performed and the efficiencies on energy, cost and CO2 emission were shown. As a result, the system using CHPC was found to be more effective than similar transportation systems using latent heat storage container etc. Especially, the system using CHPC can supply hot-heat and cold-heat without adding extra energy at heat supply area effectively.