Modeling and cost analysis for different PV/battery/diesel operating options driving a load in Tunisia, Jordan and KSA

Charfi, Sana; Atieh, Ahmad; Chaabene, Maher

doi:10.1016/j.scs.2016.02.006

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“…Nonetheless, utility-scale storage has also been considered in some studies [29,30]. We also note that microgrids can include diesel generation [31,32]. However, given the negative environmental consequences that diesel causes, there is growing interest in displacing diesel with renewable technologies [33,34].…”

Section: Review and Motivationmentioning

confidence: 99%

State-of-Charge Effects on Standalone Solar-Storage Systems in Hot Climates: A Case Study in Saudi Arabia

Elshurafa

Aldubyan

2019

Sustainability

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In this paper, we quantify the economic and environmental implications of operating a standalone photovoltaic-battery system (PVB) while varying the battery’s minimum allowable state of charge (MSOC), the load profile, and simultaneously incorporating ambient temperature effects in hot climates. To that end, Saudi Arabia has been chosen for this case study. Over a project lifetime of 25 years, we find that, contrary to the widely accepted norm of 50% being a reasonable MSOC, a lower MSOC can bestow economic benefits. For example, a MSOC of 20% results in a lower number of batteries required throughout the lifetime of the project—while still meeting demand. For a village of 1000 homes, this translates to a saving of $47 million in net present value. Further, incorporating temperature effects results in deducing more realistic costs that are 125% higher than the ideal scenario (i.e., when temperature is not modeled). This difference stems from underestimating the actual number of batteries needed throughout the project lifetime. Compared to a diesel-powered microgrid, and for a village of 1000 homes, a PVB would, on an annual basis, avoid emitting 5000 tons of carbon and avoid burning 2 million liters of diesel.

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Section: Review and Motivationmentioning

confidence: 99%

State-of-Charge Effects on Standalone Solar-Storage Systems in Hot Climates: A Case Study in Saudi Arabia

Elshurafa

Aldubyan

2019

Sustainability

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“…The CO 2 emission is related to the DG fuel consumption. Each liter of diesel produces about 720 g of CO 2 and requires 1920 g of O 2 to combust .…”

Section: Hybrid System Components Modelingmentioning

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Optimal sizing of a hybrid solar energy system using particle swarm optimization algorithm based on cost and pollution criteria

Charfi

Atieh

Chaabene

2018

Env Prog and Sustain Energy

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Sizing of hybrid energy systems is primarily determined based on either cost criterion or produced pollution criterion. Optimization of a hybrid energy system for a typical house in Tunisia is investigated using particle swarm optimization (PSO). To the best of our knowledge, PSO algorithm has not been used for PV/batteries bank/diesel generator energy system optimization. Different parameters—namely, cost, required maintenance of the parts, lifetime of each components, and pollution produced by the diesel generator—are investigated simultaneously as objectives for optimal design of the hybrid system. Different designs are considered for the hybrid system where CO2 emission is measured and system total cost is calculated. It is crucial to choose proper ranges of the parameters used in the PSO algorithm to achieve stable and global optimal solution. It is found that the cost of the system optimized using minimum pollution criterion has about 0.3% extra overall cost compared to the system optimized using minimum overall system cost criterion. New and simple method is proposed in this work to select the range of the PV panels' number to achieve optimal solution of PSO algorithm. This method is based on calculating the number of PV panels under different conditions of solar radiation and load values. The considered conditions are maximum solar radiation, 50% of maximum radiation, and the radiation at 9:00 AM for maximum and minimum load values. The choice of these conditions was arbitrary and contemplated to cover a wide range of different possible solar radiation in the year. © 2018 American Institute of Chemical Engineers Environ Prog, 38:e13055, 2019

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“…The Diesel engine generation system mainly consists of three parts, such as Diesel Engine, Synchronous Generator and the excitation system, and the block diagram is shown in Fig.2.Excitation system provides variable DC current to maintain the desired terminal voltage. [105] Diesel engine converts the fuel flow into mechanical torque. Internal combustion engine speed is varied by regulating the fuel flow with the help of actuator and electromechanical devices.…”

Section: Diesel Generation Systemmentioning

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“…Dynamic effect of engine inertia is estimated by relating the intake fuel and flywheel speed. [105] The transfer model of the diesel engine diagram is shown in Fig.3, and the engine mechanical motion can be represented as shown in Eq.8.…”

Section: Diesel Generation Systemmentioning

confidence: 99%

“…Akbar Maliki and Fathollah Porfayaz [103] has proposed the integration of solar PV-wind-Diesel with storage devices such as battery and fuel cell, and comparison is made with traditional integration of solar PV-wind-diesel hybrid system based on the modelling, sizing and cost analysis. The importance of using a small split diesel generator instead of a large diesel generator for a typical residential building is discussed lucidly in [104].Sana Charfi et al [105] have taken the power generation from three different countries, namely the Kingdom of Saudi Arabia, Tunisia and Jordan on which a complete investigation on its total investment is carried out. Diesel, PV-battery storage bank and hybrid PV-Diesel engine-battery bank modelling and cost analysis are done.…”

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A Bibliographical Survey on Integration of Hybrid Renewable Energy Sources with Diesel Generator and Storage System

Dharavath¹,

Raglend²,

Karthikeyan³

et al. 2018

JESTR

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The power consumption has increased enormously due to the intervention of high end technology and it is necessary to meet this power demand. The power pushed into any electrical system should be highly reliable, secured with sufficient quantity and quality. One such solution is to bring reliable and flexible power by introducing Hybrid energy systems into the network. The main motivation of hybrid energy systems is to improve the delivery of power at the utilities and customer end. In this paper, a complete literature review is made on the integration of solar photovoltaic, wind and diesel generator with energy storage systems like hydrogen based fuel cells and batteries. This hybrid system reduces the operating time of diesel generator, save the fuel consumption and hence accomplishes the peak demand with diesel generator.

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Modeling and cost analysis for different PV/battery/diesel operating options driving a load in Tunisia, Jordan and KSA

Cited by 29 publications

References 37 publications

State-of-Charge Effects on Standalone Solar-Storage Systems in Hot Climates: A Case Study in Saudi Arabia

State-of-Charge Effects on Standalone Solar-Storage Systems in Hot Climates: A Case Study in Saudi Arabia

Optimal sizing of a hybrid solar energy system using particle swarm optimization algorithm based on cost and pollution criteria

A Bibliographical Survey on Integration of Hybrid Renewable Energy Sources with Diesel Generator and Storage System

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