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Stirling engines (SE) offer good part load performance and high heat sink temperatures which make it a suitable candidate to serve as a prime mover in micro-combined cooling, heating and power (μ-CCHP) applications. In this study, a novel μ-CCHP configuration hybridising a SE prime mover with an ORC to utilise the waste heat from the SE to produce additional power is proposed. Additional waste heat was recovered from the flue gas to dry the biomass feedstock, fire a thermal chiller and produce hot water. Further, a non-ideal thermal model was formulated and implemented in MATLAB to model the SE prime mover while the models of the other subsystems were implemented in Aspen plus®. Also, the control of the subsystems of the μ-CCHP was achieved in MATLAB by establishing a connection between the software and Aspen plus®. A detailed sensitivity analysis was conducted to study the influence of …