Present-day power conversion and conditioning systems focus on transferring energy from a single type of power source into a single type of load or energy storage system (ESS). While these systems can be optimized wit...Present-day power conversion and conditioning systems focus on transferring energy from a single type of power source into a single type of load or energy storage system (ESS). While these systems can be optimized within their specific topology (e.g. MPPT for solar applications and BMS for batteries), the topologies are not easily adapted to accept a wide range of power flow operating conditions. With a hybrid approach to energy storage and power flow, a system can be designed to operate at its most advantageous point, given the operating conditions. Based on the load demand, the system can select the optimal power source and ESS. This paper will investigate the feasibility of combining two types of power sources (main utility grid and photovoltaics (PV)) along with two types of ESS (ultra-capacitors and batteries). The simulation results will show the impact of a hybrid ESS on a grid-tied residential microgrid system performance under various operating scenarios.展开更多
This paper presents a method for optimal sizing of an off-grid hybrid microgrid (MG) system in order to achieve a certain load demand. The hybrid MG is made of a solar photovoltaic (PV) system, wind turbine (TW) and e...This paper presents a method for optimal sizing of an off-grid hybrid microgrid (MG) system in order to achieve a certain load demand. The hybrid MG is made of a solar photovoltaic (PV) system, wind turbine (TW) and energy storage system (ESS). The reliability of the MG system is modeled based on the loss of power supply probability (SPSP). For optimization, an enhanced Genetic Algorithm (GA) is used to minimize the total cost of the system over a 20-year period, while satisfying some reliability and operation constraints. A case study addressing optimal sizing of an off-grid hybrid microgrid in Nigeria is discussed. The result is compared with results obtained from the Brute Force and standard GA methods.展开更多
In a DC/AC microgrid system,the issues of DC bus voltage regulation and power sharing have been the subject of a significant amount of research.Integra-tion of renewable energy into the grid involves multiple converte...In a DC/AC microgrid system,the issues of DC bus voltage regulation and power sharing have been the subject of a significant amount of research.Integra-tion of renewable energy into the grid involves multiple converters and these are vulnerable to perturbations caused by transient events.To enhance the flexibility and controllability of the grid connected converter(GCC),this paper proposes a common DC bus voltage maintenance and power sharing control strategy of a GCC for a DC/AC microgrid.A maximum power point tracking algorithm is employed to enhance the power delivered by the wind turbine and photovoltaic module.The proposed control strategy consists of primary and secondary as-pects.In the primary layer control,the DC bus voltage is regulated by the GCC.In the secondary layer,the DC bus voltage is maintained by the energy storage device.This ensures reliable power for local loads during grid failures,while power injection to the grid is controlled by an en-ergy management algorithm followed by reference gen-eration of inductor current in the GCC.The proposed control strategy operates in different modes of DC voltage regulation,power injection to the grid and a hybrid op-erating mode.It provides wide flexible control and en-sures the reliable operation of the microgrid.The pro-posed and conventional techniques are compared for a 15.8 kW DC/AC microgrid system using the MATLAB/Simulink environment.The simulation results demonstrate the transient behaviour of the system in different operating conditions.The proposed control technique is twice as fast in its transient response and produces less oscillation than the conventional system.Index Terms—Wind energy,photovoltaic energy,DC/AC microgrid,battery energy storage system,co-ordinated control.展开更多
The concept of utilizing microgrids(MGs)to convert buildings into prosumers is gaining massive popularity because of its economic and environmental benefits.These pro-sumer buildings consist of renewable energy source...The concept of utilizing microgrids(MGs)to convert buildings into prosumers is gaining massive popularity because of its economic and environmental benefits.These pro-sumer buildings consist of renewable energy sources and usually install battery energy storage systems(BESSs)to deal with the uncertain nature of renewable energy sources.However,because of the high capital investment of BESS and the limitation of available energy,there is a need for an effective energy management strategy for prosumer buildings that maximizes the profit of building owner and increases the operating life span of BESS.In this regard,this paper proposes an improved energy management strategy(IEMS)for the prosumer building to minimize the operating cost of MG and degradation factor of BESS.Moreover,to estimate the practical operating life span of BESS,this paper utilizes a non-linear battery degradation model.In addition,a flexible load shifting(FLS)scheme is also developed and integrated into the proposed strategy to further improve its performance.The proposed strategy is tested for the real-time annual data of a grid-tied solar photovoltaic(PV)and BESS-powered AC-DC hybrid MG installed at a commercial building.Moreover,the scenario reduction technique is used to handle the uncertainty associated with generation and load demand.To validate the performance of the proposed strategy,the results of IEMS are compared with the well-established energy management strategies.The simulation results verify that the proposed strategy substantially increases the profit of the building owner and operating life span of BESS.Moreover,FLS enhances the performance of IEMS by further improving the financial profit of MG owner and the life span of BESS,thus making the operation of prosumer building more economical and efficient.展开更多
In this paper, simulation and implementation way for practical control of Single Inverter Microgrid (SIMG) is presented. This system is equipped by solar system, wind energy conversion system (WECS), and microturbine ...In this paper, simulation and implementation way for practical control of Single Inverter Microgrid (SIMG) is presented. This system is equipped by solar system, wind energy conversion system (WECS), and microturbine system. Each DG’s has controlled independently. This is a kind of decentralize control because each DG’s has difference controller. Control of Microgrid (MG) during both grid tie and islanding modes is presented. Solar system and WECS are modeled based on santerno products. This system is compared with three inverter MGs with Centralize control strategy. Controlled signals show that SIMG is more reliable and economical. THD is improved and strategy is simplified for SIMG.展开更多
The growing interest in energy conservation has inspired companies to seek alternatives to highly polluting fuel electricity generation. This study designed an optimised solar wind power generation system to fulfil th...The growing interest in energy conservation has inspired companies to seek alternatives to highly polluting fuel electricity generation. This study designed an optimised solar wind power generation system to fulfil the energy requirement of a cold chain logistics centre. This study first conducted a thorough analysis of the clarity indicators and daily temperature positions of the cold chain logistics centre, determined the average daily electricity demand, and proposed an effective design scheme. The energy simulation software, RETScreen 8.0, was used to determine the scale of solar photovoltaic and wind power projects that meet the expected energy needs of the cold chain logistics centre. The results indicated that the estimated annual total energy demand was 833689.2 kWh. The annual power generation of 6 kW from solar photovoltaic projects and 150 kW from wind power projects was found to be enough to meet the expected electricity demand. Solar photovoltaic power generation and wind power generation account for 2.44% and 97.56%, respectively. The hybrid energy system achieved a 96.6% reduction in carbon emissions and provides a reasonable payback period of 6.1 years and an electricity generation of 904368.674 kWh per year. The feasibility of the project and the calculated period of investment return are very reasonable. Therefore, this hybrid renewable energy system provides reliable power by combining energy sources.展开更多
Although wind and solar power is the major reliable renewable energy sources used in power grids,the fluctuation and unpredictability of these renewable energy sources require the use of ancillary services,thereby inc...Although wind and solar power is the major reliable renewable energy sources used in power grids,the fluctuation and unpredictability of these renewable energy sources require the use of ancillary services,thereby increasing the integration cost.This study proposes a wind,solar,and pumped-storage cooperative(WSPC)model that can be applied to large-scale systems connected to dispersed renewable energy sources.This model provides an optimized coordinated bidding strategy in the day-ahead market,along with a method to facilitate revenue distribution among participating members.This model takes advantage of the natural complementary characteristics of wind and solar power while using pumped storage to adjust the total output power.In the coordinated bidding strategy,a proportion of the energies is provided as firm power,which can lower the ancillary service requirement.Moreover,a multi-period firm power-providing mode is adopted to reflect the wind-solar output characteristics of each period accurately.The duration of each period is selected as a variable to accommodate seasonal characteristics.This ensures that the provision of firm power can maintain a high proportion under varied connected ratios of wind-solar,thereby obtaining higher revenue.By using the revenue distribution method,the short-term influencing factors of the cooperative model are considered to provide the economic characteristics of wind farms and photovoltaic stations.In this way,revenue distribution can be fairly realized among the participating members.Finally,the effectiveness and economy of the proposed model are validated based on actual data obtained from the power grid in California,USA.展开更多
NEOM is a“New Future”city powered by renewable energy only,where solar photovoltaic,wind,solar ther-mal,and battery energy storage will supply all the energy needed to match the demand integrated by artificial intel...NEOM is a“New Future”city powered by renewable energy only,where solar photovoltaic,wind,solar ther-mal,and battery energy storage will supply all the energy needed to match the demand integrated by artificial intelligence techniques.Within this context,the weight of solar thermal is supposed to increase.Concentrated solar power is the only renewable energy with the added value of dispatchability.Opposite to solar photovoltaic and wind,which suffer from intermittency and unpredictability,thus necessitating economically and environ-mentally expensive external energy storage by batteries,concentrated solar power may be fitted with internal energy storage by molten salt providing a much cheaper and environmentally friendly alternative.Oversizing the solar field and the thermal energy storage,the otherwise traditional design with steam Rankine cycles of temperature and pressure to turbine about 565℃ and 100 bar permits highly dispatchable electricity with Lev-elized Cost of Electricity(LCOE)slightly above 7.5¢/kWh in NEOM City,Kingdom of Saudi Arabia.By using higher temperature and pressure to the turbine of 730℃ and 330 bar,the LCOE can be further reduced to below 6.5¢/kWh.While wind and solar photovoltaic are much cheaper,at less than 3–4¢/kWh,their intermittency and unpredictability necessitate energy storage by Lithium-Ion batteries of additional cost 14–28¢/kWh.Likely,the integration of renewable energy technologies through Artificial Intelligence(AI)will be the New Future in NEOM City,with solar photovoltaic,wind,battery energy storage,and solar thermal,the building blocks,and solar thermal increasing the share of energy supply.展开更多
文摘Present-day power conversion and conditioning systems focus on transferring energy from a single type of power source into a single type of load or energy storage system (ESS). While these systems can be optimized within their specific topology (e.g. MPPT for solar applications and BMS for batteries), the topologies are not easily adapted to accept a wide range of power flow operating conditions. With a hybrid approach to energy storage and power flow, a system can be designed to operate at its most advantageous point, given the operating conditions. Based on the load demand, the system can select the optimal power source and ESS. This paper will investigate the feasibility of combining two types of power sources (main utility grid and photovoltaics (PV)) along with two types of ESS (ultra-capacitors and batteries). The simulation results will show the impact of a hybrid ESS on a grid-tied residential microgrid system performance under various operating scenarios.
文摘This paper presents a method for optimal sizing of an off-grid hybrid microgrid (MG) system in order to achieve a certain load demand. The hybrid MG is made of a solar photovoltaic (PV) system, wind turbine (TW) and energy storage system (ESS). The reliability of the MG system is modeled based on the loss of power supply probability (SPSP). For optimization, an enhanced Genetic Algorithm (GA) is used to minimize the total cost of the system over a 20-year period, while satisfying some reliability and operation constraints. A case study addressing optimal sizing of an off-grid hybrid microgrid in Nigeria is discussed. The result is compared with results obtained from the Brute Force and standard GA methods.
基金supported by Prince Sultan University,Riyadh,Saudi Arabia,under research grant SEED-2022-CE-95.
文摘In a DC/AC microgrid system,the issues of DC bus voltage regulation and power sharing have been the subject of a significant amount of research.Integra-tion of renewable energy into the grid involves multiple converters and these are vulnerable to perturbations caused by transient events.To enhance the flexibility and controllability of the grid connected converter(GCC),this paper proposes a common DC bus voltage maintenance and power sharing control strategy of a GCC for a DC/AC microgrid.A maximum power point tracking algorithm is employed to enhance the power delivered by the wind turbine and photovoltaic module.The proposed control strategy consists of primary and secondary as-pects.In the primary layer control,the DC bus voltage is regulated by the GCC.In the secondary layer,the DC bus voltage is maintained by the energy storage device.This ensures reliable power for local loads during grid failures,while power injection to the grid is controlled by an en-ergy management algorithm followed by reference gen-eration of inductor current in the GCC.The proposed control strategy operates in different modes of DC voltage regulation,power injection to the grid and a hybrid op-erating mode.It provides wide flexible control and en-sures the reliable operation of the microgrid.The pro-posed and conventional techniques are compared for a 15.8 kW DC/AC microgrid system using the MATLAB/Simulink environment.The simulation results demonstrate the transient behaviour of the system in different operating conditions.The proposed control technique is twice as fast in its transient response and produces less oscillation than the conventional system.Index Terms—Wind energy,photovoltaic energy,DC/AC microgrid,battery energy storage system,co-ordinated control.
基金supported in part by the Department of Science and Technology,Government of India,New Delhi,India“Internet of Things(IoT)Research of Interdisciplinary Cyber-Physical Systems Program”(No.DST/ICPS/CLUSTER/IoT/2018/General)。
文摘The concept of utilizing microgrids(MGs)to convert buildings into prosumers is gaining massive popularity because of its economic and environmental benefits.These pro-sumer buildings consist of renewable energy sources and usually install battery energy storage systems(BESSs)to deal with the uncertain nature of renewable energy sources.However,because of the high capital investment of BESS and the limitation of available energy,there is a need for an effective energy management strategy for prosumer buildings that maximizes the profit of building owner and increases the operating life span of BESS.In this regard,this paper proposes an improved energy management strategy(IEMS)for the prosumer building to minimize the operating cost of MG and degradation factor of BESS.Moreover,to estimate the practical operating life span of BESS,this paper utilizes a non-linear battery degradation model.In addition,a flexible load shifting(FLS)scheme is also developed and integrated into the proposed strategy to further improve its performance.The proposed strategy is tested for the real-time annual data of a grid-tied solar photovoltaic(PV)and BESS-powered AC-DC hybrid MG installed at a commercial building.Moreover,the scenario reduction technique is used to handle the uncertainty associated with generation and load demand.To validate the performance of the proposed strategy,the results of IEMS are compared with the well-established energy management strategies.The simulation results verify that the proposed strategy substantially increases the profit of the building owner and operating life span of BESS.Moreover,FLS enhances the performance of IEMS by further improving the financial profit of MG owner and the life span of BESS,thus making the operation of prosumer building more economical and efficient.
文摘In this paper, simulation and implementation way for practical control of Single Inverter Microgrid (SIMG) is presented. This system is equipped by solar system, wind energy conversion system (WECS), and microturbine system. Each DG’s has controlled independently. This is a kind of decentralize control because each DG’s has difference controller. Control of Microgrid (MG) during both grid tie and islanding modes is presented. Solar system and WECS are modeled based on santerno products. This system is compared with three inverter MGs with Centralize control strategy. Controlled signals show that SIMG is more reliable and economical. THD is improved and strategy is simplified for SIMG.
文摘The growing interest in energy conservation has inspired companies to seek alternatives to highly polluting fuel electricity generation. This study designed an optimised solar wind power generation system to fulfil the energy requirement of a cold chain logistics centre. This study first conducted a thorough analysis of the clarity indicators and daily temperature positions of the cold chain logistics centre, determined the average daily electricity demand, and proposed an effective design scheme. The energy simulation software, RETScreen 8.0, was used to determine the scale of solar photovoltaic and wind power projects that meet the expected energy needs of the cold chain logistics centre. The results indicated that the estimated annual total energy demand was 833689.2 kWh. The annual power generation of 6 kW from solar photovoltaic projects and 150 kW from wind power projects was found to be enough to meet the expected electricity demand. Solar photovoltaic power generation and wind power generation account for 2.44% and 97.56%, respectively. The hybrid energy system achieved a 96.6% reduction in carbon emissions and provides a reasonable payback period of 6.1 years and an electricity generation of 904368.674 kWh per year. The feasibility of the project and the calculated period of investment return are very reasonable. Therefore, this hybrid renewable energy system provides reliable power by combining energy sources.
基金This work was supported by the National Natural Science Foundation of China(No.51337005).
文摘Although wind and solar power is the major reliable renewable energy sources used in power grids,the fluctuation and unpredictability of these renewable energy sources require the use of ancillary services,thereby increasing the integration cost.This study proposes a wind,solar,and pumped-storage cooperative(WSPC)model that can be applied to large-scale systems connected to dispersed renewable energy sources.This model provides an optimized coordinated bidding strategy in the day-ahead market,along with a method to facilitate revenue distribution among participating members.This model takes advantage of the natural complementary characteristics of wind and solar power while using pumped storage to adjust the total output power.In the coordinated bidding strategy,a proportion of the energies is provided as firm power,which can lower the ancillary service requirement.Moreover,a multi-period firm power-providing mode is adopted to reflect the wind-solar output characteristics of each period accurately.The duration of each period is selected as a variable to accommodate seasonal characteristics.This ensures that the provision of firm power can maintain a high proportion under varied connected ratios of wind-solar,thereby obtaining higher revenue.By using the revenue distribution method,the short-term influencing factors of the cooperative model are considered to provide the economic characteristics of wind farms and photovoltaic stations.In this way,revenue distribution can be fairly realized among the participating members.Finally,the effectiveness and economy of the proposed model are validated based on actual data obtained from the power grid in California,USA.
文摘NEOM is a“New Future”city powered by renewable energy only,where solar photovoltaic,wind,solar ther-mal,and battery energy storage will supply all the energy needed to match the demand integrated by artificial intelligence techniques.Within this context,the weight of solar thermal is supposed to increase.Concentrated solar power is the only renewable energy with the added value of dispatchability.Opposite to solar photovoltaic and wind,which suffer from intermittency and unpredictability,thus necessitating economically and environ-mentally expensive external energy storage by batteries,concentrated solar power may be fitted with internal energy storage by molten salt providing a much cheaper and environmentally friendly alternative.Oversizing the solar field and the thermal energy storage,the otherwise traditional design with steam Rankine cycles of temperature and pressure to turbine about 565℃ and 100 bar permits highly dispatchable electricity with Lev-elized Cost of Electricity(LCOE)slightly above 7.5¢/kWh in NEOM City,Kingdom of Saudi Arabia.By using higher temperature and pressure to the turbine of 730℃ and 330 bar,the LCOE can be further reduced to below 6.5¢/kWh.While wind and solar photovoltaic are much cheaper,at less than 3–4¢/kWh,their intermittency and unpredictability necessitate energy storage by Lithium-Ion batteries of additional cost 14–28¢/kWh.Likely,the integration of renewable energy technologies through Artificial Intelligence(AI)will be the New Future in NEOM City,with solar photovoltaic,wind,battery energy storage,and solar thermal,the building blocks,and solar thermal increasing the share of energy supply.