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Renewable Energy 48 (2012) 161e172 Contents lists available at SciVerse ScienceDirect Renewable Energy journal homepage: www.els /locate/renene Performance assessment of a novel system using parabolic trough solar collectors for combined cooling, heating, and power production Fahad A. Al-Sulaiman a,b, *, Feridun Hamdullahpur b, Ibrahim Dincer c a Mechanical Engineering Department, King Fahd University of Petroleum and Minerals (KFUPM), Dhahran, Saudi Arabia b Mechanical and Mechatronics Engineering Department, University of Waterloo, Waterloo, ON, Canada c Faculty of Engineering and Applied Science, University of Ontario Institute of Technology Oshawa, ON, Canada a r t i c l e i n f o a b s t r a c t Article history: In this study, performance assessment of a novel system based on parabolic trough solar collectors and Received 19 June 2011 an organic Rankine cycle for combined cooling, heating and power (CCHP) is presented. In this system, Accepted 20 April 2012 a portion of the waste heat is used for heating through a heat exchanger and the other portion is used for Available online 29 May 2012 cooling through a single-effect absorption chiller. This study considers three modes of operation: a solar mode, which is characterized by a low-solar radiation; a solar and storage mode, which is characterized Keywords: by a high-solar radiation; and a storage mode, which is the operation of the system at night time through Solar energ