Cost and size optimization of solar photovoltaic and fuel cell based integrated energy system for un-electrified village

Khemariya, Manish; Mittal, Aditya; Baredar, Prashant; Singh, Anand

doi:10.1016/j.est.2017.09.011

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“…where P FC (t) is the power produced by fuel cell and (Q H 2 ) c 1 is the mass flow rate of hydrogen consumed by 1 kW fuel cell in kg/h, as calculated by Equation (10). The hydrogen storage tank is updated after taking hydrogen, the remaining hydrogen in the tank is calculated as:…”

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“…Authors in [5] developed a MATLAB simulation model of grid connected FC-PV hybrid system. It can be concluded that extensive study has been reported in literature related to modeling, optimization and energy management for FC-PV hybrid systems [6][7][8][9][10][11][12]. It is evident from the literature that fuel cells along with solar have a huge potential for emission free power generation for small houses, commercial building, offices etc.…”

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Cost Optimization of a Stand-Alone Hybrid Energy System with Fuel Cell and PV

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Renewable energy has become very popular in recent years. The amount of renewable generation has increased in both grid-connected and stand-alone systems. This is because it can provide clean energy in a cost-effective and environmentally friendly fashion. Among all varieties, photovoltaic (PV) is the ultimate rising star. Integration of other technologies with solar is enhancing the efficiency and reliability of the system. In this paper a fuel cell–solar photovoltaic (FC-PV)-based hybrid energy system has been proposed to meet the electrical load demand of a small community center in India. The system is developed with PV panels, fuel cell, an electrolyzer and hydrogen storage tank. Detailed mathematical modeling of this system as well as its operation algorithm have been presented. Furthermore, cost optimization has been performed to determine ratings of PV and Hydrogen system components. The objective is to minimize the levelized cost of electricity (LCOE) of this standalone system. This optimization is performed in HOMER software as well as another tool using an artificial bee colony (ABC). The results obtained by both methods have been compared in terms of cost effectiveness. It is evident from the results that for a 68 MWh/yr of electricity demand is met by the 129 kW Solar PV, 15 kW Fuel cell along with a 34 kW electrolyzer and a 20 kg hydrogen tank with a LPSP of 0.053%. The LCOE is found to be in 0.228 $/kWh. Results also show that use of more sophisticated algorithms such as ABC yields more optimized solutions than package programs, such as HOMER. Finally, operational details for FC-PV hybrid system using IEC 61850 inter-operable communication is presented. IEC 61850 information models for FC, electrolyzer, hydrogen tank were developed and relevent IEC 61850 message exchanges for energy management in FC-PV hybrid system are demonstrated.

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Cost Optimization of a Stand-Alone Hybrid Energy System with Fuel Cell and PV

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“…The output power of a photovoltaic cell increases as the amount of solar radiation increases, and decreases as the temperature increases. Under a certain temperature and radiation quantity, the system has a maximum power point, and the solar energy can be fully utilized by a maximum power point tracker [6].…”

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Research on fuel cell energy storage control and power generation system

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2020

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Original scientific paper https://doi.org/10.2298/TSCI191113107PIn order to realize the continuous stability of photovoltaic power generation system and the controllability of thermal energy storage, a photovoltaic fuel cell combined power generation system consisting of photovoltaic cell array, proton exchange membrane fuel cell, alkaline electrolysis cell and super capacitor is proposed. The system, at the same time, establishes the mathematical model of its various components and the system cost model, designs the thermal energy distribution of the thermal energy storage management coordination system, and uses the high efficiency battery to meet the load requirements of the power system. In addition, the paper uses simulation technology as a research method to build a simulation model of hybrid fuel cell thermal energy storage control and power generation system, and analyzes the system's thermal energy supply and demand balance. The simulation results confirm that the photovoltaic fuel cell hybrid power generation system has high economic performance, can meet the user's power and thermal energy requirements, and realizes the requirement of completely independent power supply.

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“…When a solar cell is illuminated, only the photons having energy higher than the bandgap energy (E g ) can excite electrons and create electron-hole pairs. O'Dennell and Chen [14] proposed the model of the bandgap-temperature relations (4) where S is the coupling constant and ω  is the average phonon energy. Figure 1 shows the comparison between the Varshni relationship and the bandgap-temperature relationship based on phonon energy correction for the GaAs and Si semicon-ductors.…”

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“…The use of solar cells, which are devices that can directly convert sunlight into electrical energy, provides huge potential in both economic and environmental benefits [3]. In addition, the solar cell systems also provide easy installation so that they can be used to supply electricity for people who do not have access to the main electrical source [4].…”

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Accurate Model for Temperature Dependence of Solar Cell Performance According to Phonon Energy Correction

Tiandho

Sunanda

Afriani

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Latvian Journal of Physics and Technical Sciences

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In many experiments, it has been reported that the performance of solar cells decreases with increasing temperature. This effect arises due to an increase in the intrinsic carrier concentration of material that directly affects the reverse saturation currents (J 0 ). As a result, the open circuit voltage which is inversely proportional to J 0 will decrease quite rapidly with increasing temperature. The intrinsic carrier concentration is determined by the bandgap energy of a material and its temperature. The Varshni relationship is a relation for the variation of the bandgap energy with temperature in semiconductors that has been used extensively in the model of a solar cell performance. But the problem is the Varshni relation just calculates the contribution of the vibrational part at the temperature, which is much greater than the Debye temperature. These works proposed a model of temperature dependence of solar cell performance that involves phonon energy correction and electron-phonon coupling interaction. This correction is applied because the electron-phonon coupling interaction is an intrinsic interaction of semiconductors. The existence of interaction cannot be avoided either experimentally or theoretically. The proposed model is compared with experimental data, which have fairly high accuracy.

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Cost and size optimization of solar photovoltaic and fuel cell based integrated energy system for un-electrified village

Cited by 49 publications

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Cost Optimization of a Stand-Alone Hybrid Energy System with Fuel Cell and PV

Cost Optimization of a Stand-Alone Hybrid Energy System with Fuel Cell and PV

Research on fuel cell energy storage control and power generation system

Accurate Model for Temperature Dependence of Solar Cell Performance According to Phonon Energy Correction

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