Experimental study of electricity generation by Solar PV/diesel hybrid systems without battery storage for off-grid areas

Yamegueu, Daniel; Azoumah, Y.; Py, Xavier; Zongo, N.

doi:10.1016/j.renene.2010.11.011

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“…While Methanol's advantages include lower emissions, higher performance and lower risk of flammability, the downside involves producing a high amount of formaldehyde in emissions [28,42,43]. Since most of the energy sources have advantages as well as disadvantages, hence hybrid system using more than one energy sources may be considered as the proper alternative to get optimal efficiency with least air pollution [44][45][46][47]. Proper air pollution control devices like electrostatic precipitators, fabric filters/bag houses, wet scrubbers and cyclone separators should be used by the industrial gearbox manufacturing organization.…”

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An explorative study to enable environmentally conscious manufacturing for an industrial gearbox manufacturing organization

2014

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-In recent years, environmentally conscious manufacturing (ECM) has become an important aspect and proactive approach for majority of the manufacturing organizations in India. The reason is that ECM not only helps to produce environment friendly, but also helps to make money by reducing cost or achieving competitive advantage. Industrial gearbox manufacturing organizations have significant environmental impacts as industrial gearbox manufacturing involves several steps which use valuable resources and pollute the environment. Hence, this paper presents an explorative environmental study of an Indian industrial gearbox manufacturing organization. The objective of the current paper is (i) to identify the environmental problems and environmentally conscious manufacturing indicators (ECMI), (ii) to find out the root causes of these problems and (iii) to solve the root causes based on the available stateof-the-art literature. This research work not only reviews the efficient environment friendly manufacturing techniques, but also helps the organization to become eco-efficient by producing environment friendly while making money. First ECMIs selected from literature review, are validated through process mapping. Then these indicators are prioritized using analytic hierarchy process (AHP) to find out the critical environmentally conscious manufacturing indicators (CECMI). The sources of CECMIs are identified using either data envelopment analysis (DEA) or direct observation of the available database. Finally, some possible solutions are also addressed in this paper.

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“…Furthermore, the progressive electrification of such rural areas has mainly been achieved through stand-alone energy production units and widely by Diesel generators (DG). However, the volatile prices of fossil fuels, their high cost of maintenance coupled to their greenhouse gas emissions make this option costly and unsustainable [4,5]. Fortunately, these regions have abundant solar energy potential ranging from 4 to 6 kWh/m²/day which is enough to develop solar energy power generation systems [4,5].…”

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“…However, the volatile prices of fossil fuels, their high cost of maintenance coupled to their greenhouse gas emissions make this option costly and unsustainable [4,5]. Fortunately, these regions have abundant solar energy potential ranging from 4 to 6 kWh/m²/day which is enough to develop solar energy power generation systems [4,5]. As shown by many authors, PV/Diesel hybrid systems can be more reliable and cost effective than stand-alone PV or Diesel systems.…”

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“…As shown by many authors, PV/Diesel hybrid systems can be more reliable and cost effective than stand-alone PV or Diesel systems. It could be a great opportunity for rural electrification that could trigger social and economic development in rural areas [4][5][6].…”

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“…Furthermore, in a hybrid PV/Diesel system without battery, an energy management system is mandatory to increase their reliability and their optimal operation. Many studies have been published and demonstrated that there is a potential for hybrid systems based on PV/Diesel system but very few include experimental verification of the system behavior [5,8,9]. In this paper, energy management strategies based respectively on inverter active power control and on controllable loads using are proposed and compared to inverter ON/OFF control strategy from simulation and experimental analysis.…”

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Energy Management Strategies for Hybrid PV/Diesel Energy Systems: Simulation and Experimental Validation

Koucoi¹

2016

IJEPE

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Abstract:Hybrid photovoltaic-diesel systems are becoming more and more attractive for rural electrification in sub-Saharan Africa region. In this paper, some energy management strategies for a photovoltaic-diesel system without battery storage have been theoretically and experimentally studied. The proposed strategies are respectively based on active power control of inverters and controllable loads to ensure security operation for the system and maximize the solar energy penetration. Simulations and experiments have been performed under two different climate conditions and have been applied to an African rural load profile. All the energy management strategies developed have been implemented with the Matlab environment. The obtained results have shown the effectiveness of the proposed strategies to avoid power reserve to the diesel generator, to increase solar energy fraction, to reduce CO 2 emissions, and to ensure the system's frequency and voltage stability.

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A multiobjective approach for design of an off‐grid PV/Diesel system considering reliability and cost

Movahediyan

Askarzadeh

2018

Env Prog and Sustain Energy

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The aim of the present study is to solve multiobjective optimization (MO) of an off‐grid hybrid power generation system including photovoltaic (PV) and diesel generator by multiobjective version of a recently developed metaheuristic approach named crow search algorithm (CSA). For this goal, the objective functions are regarded as net present cost (NPC) and system reliability defined by loss of power supply probability (LPSP) index. In the optimization problem, operating limitations of diesel generator and uncertainties of solar radiation and load demand are considered. To solve this problem, a multiobjective CSA (MO‐CSA) is developed and the obtained results are compared with the results of nondominated sorting genetic algorithm II (NSGA‐II). On the case study, simulation results reveals that when diesel generator ramp rate is 100%, at LPSP = 0, MO‐CSA reaches to 54.8 kW and 172.8 m2 for rated power of diesel generator and PV surface area (corresponding cost is 3.7219 × 105 $), while the values found by NSGA‐II are 55 kW and 86.04 m2 (corresponding cost is 3.7345 × 105 $). Based on the results, it can be drawn that (1) MO‐CSA finds more promising results than NSGA‐II, (2) Combination of PV and diesel generator leads to having a cost‐effective and reliable power generation system, and (3) by considering the solar radiation and load uncertainties, the system cost increases. © 2018 American Institute of Chemical Engineers Environ Prog, 38:e13101, 2019

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Experimental study of electricity generation by Solar PV/diesel hybrid systems without battery storage for off-grid areas

Cited by 109 publications

References 24 publications

An explorative study to enable environmentally conscious manufacturing for an industrial gearbox manufacturing organization

An explorative study to enable environmentally conscious manufacturing for an industrial gearbox manufacturing organization

Energy Management Strategies for Hybrid PV/Diesel Energy Systems: Simulation and Experimental Validation

A multiobjective approach for design of an off‐grid PV/Diesel system considering reliability and cost

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