Background

Energy systems are playing a major role in day today life. It may be your refrigerator, air conditioner, power generator that you use to get electricity etc. that we discuss. It is prudent that though we use power and energy very few of us are concerned on energy conservation. Even though we always try to match it with financial aspects of it I feel that there is something more on it especially when consider about the social responsibility. Fossil fuel resources are depleting at a rapid speed and at the same time, we are facing lot of problems created by emission of fossil fuel combustion. Therefore, we are in period that special attention should be given to conservation of energy.

Optimal designs of Energy systems become vital in such circumstances, which is always a challenging process where number of technoeconomical and environmental aspects need to be considered. Most of the times modeling related with such energy systems is a difficult task. Meanwhile number of design parameters is to be considered. This makes the optimization work hard and it is essential to move away from classical methods.

In this blog, I am sharing the research work we carried out by our group on optimization of such energy systems. Mainly we are focusing on optimization of multiple boiler systems, hybrid energy systems, and waste to energy pathways. I am really please to hear your comments and it would be a great support to improve the quality of our work.

Sunday, March 27, 2011

Importance of Hybrid Energy Systems


Hybrid Energy system is a combination of energy sources of different characteristics and an energy storage medium. When it comes to stand-alone applications depending on hybrid energy system is a challenging process due to number of reasons such as determining the best combination, which reduces the initial capital investment, maintaining power supply reliability, reducing the maintenance of system components etc.
Combination of energy sources having different characteristics reduces the impact of time varying energy potential of renewable energy sources. Simply Solar PV (SPV) energy is available in the daytime but when it comes to night, you need to fine some other alternative or store some SPV energy during daytime. When it comes to wind energy, it is also having similar qualities but generally with a much chaotic variation. Time varying nature of the renewable energy potential makes it essential to incorporate energy storage and dispatchable energy sources.


 Fig 1: Schematic diagram of a stand alone hybrid energy system
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2 comments:

  1. UnknownNovember 29, 2011 at 10:55 PM

    Thank you for posting such a useful, impressive and a wicked article./Wow.. looking good! System Optimization

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