Technico-economic analysis of off grid solar PV/Fuel cell energy system for residential community in desert region

Ghenaï, Chaouki; Salameh, Tareq; Merabet, Adel

doi:10.1016/j.ijhydene.2018.05.110

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“…where P r el , HV H 2 and η el are 1 kW, heating value of hydrogen in MJ/kg and efficiency of electrolyzer, respectively. The efficiency of electrolyzer is considered to be 90% [12]. The electrolyzer with a heating value of hydrogen being 142 MJ/kg, the mass flow rate of hydrogen will be 0.02268 kg/h/kW.…”

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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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“…En este sentido, los flujos de caja consideran las compras necesarias a la red nacional cuando el SFV es muy pequeño para cubrir la demanda, y se dividen los gastos e ingresos del proyecto solar entre la energía demandada por el hogar. Esta metodología es la empleada por Homer Software (HOMER Energy, 2018) y la aplicada en algunos casos de estudio (Alghamdi, Castro, & Zamora, 2018;Das, Tan, Yatim, & Lau, 2017;Ghenai, Salameh, & Merabet, 2018;Mansur, Baharudin, & Ali, 2017;Shahzad et al, 2017). Los análisis considerando la ec, son útiles para evaluar la viabilidad económica de un SFV (dado el perfil del hogar y las reglamentaciones del territorio).…”

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Las ciudades y el sol: paridad de red de la generación de electricidad con sistemas fotovoltaicos en los hogares en Colombia

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“…A techno-economic feasibility analysis is presented in [7] for off-grid microgrids to supply power to mining industries in remote areas of Ghana. A very similar off-grid microgrid model is investigated in [38], for residential communities living in desert area.…”

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Optimisation framework for the design and operation of open-market urban and remote community microgrids

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In this article, a new business model considering multiple stakeholders is proposed to develop a framework for third-party investment and future flexible retail electricity market in community microgrids. The proposed two-stage optimisation platform generates opportunities for multiple stakeholders to invest in the design of community microgrids, comprising multiple and different distributed energy resources such as renewable generation units, battery energy storage systems, and micro diesel engines, to minimize daily operational costs of the system. To proliferate the prosumers in retail energy markets as per the Office of Gas and Electricity Markets, United Kingdom, a peer-to-peer energy trading and energy management scheme is also proposed. The optimal sizing of urban and remote community microgrids are determined in stage-1, followed by their optimal operations to minimise the daily operating cost of the community system in stage-2. An improved version of the genetic algorithm is employed to optimise decision variables in both the stages. Different cases are investigated which show the tremendous potential of revenue generation for all stakeholders while effectively optimizing techno-economic operations of microgrids.

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Technico-economic analysis of off grid solar PV/Fuel cell energy system for residential community in desert region

Cited by 253 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

Las ciudades y el sol: paridad de red de la generación de electricidad con sistemas fotovoltaicos en los hogares en Colombia

Optimisation framework for the design and operation of open-market urban and remote community microgrids

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