An innovative CCHP system based on SOFC/GT/CO2 cycle and the organic Rankine cycle (ORC) with LNG cold energy utilization is proposed to achieve cascade energy utilization and carbon dioxide capture. The mathematical models are developed and the system performance is analyzed using the energy and exergy methods. The results illustrate that the comprehensive energy utilization, the net power generation and the overall exergy efficiencies of the system can reach about 79.48%, 79.81% and 62.29%, respectively, while the power generation efficiency of the SOFC is 50.96% and the CO2 capture rate of the proposed CCHP system is 79.2 kg/h under the given conditions. It shows that the proposed CCHP system can reach a high energy utilization efficiency with near zero emissions. The influence of some key parameters, such as the fuel utilization factor, the air-fuel ratio, the oxygen concentration in the cathode feed and the compression ratio of the SCO2 turbine on the performance of the entire system is studied. (C) 2019 Hydrogen Energy Publications LLC. Published by Elsevier Ltd. All rights reserved.