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.

Friday, August 19, 2011

Hybrid Renewable Energy System Designing and Optimization

Standalone Hybrid Energy Systems (HES) have become an interesting area of study due to its versatile applicability in producing electricity where extending existing electricity grid is not viable and expensive. At the same time HESs produce less Green House Gasses (GHG), consume lesser amount of fuel and cost effective compared to Internal Combustion Generator (ICG) s. Due to the above mentioned advantages a number of researches has been focused on different configurations of HES systems.
Even though the prime concern of HES at the late nineties were rural electrification, recently plenty of other applications were also been considered such as desert agriculture, tourism industry, desalination plant operation, telecommunication etc. At the same time plenty of work being focuses on converting existing centralized ICG systems into HES through methods like decentralized energy production which reduces both cost and pollutant emission. Grid connected HES is also an emerging area, which reduces large amount of Wasted Renewable Energy produced and system over sizing. Present plenty of work is taking place in order to expand the application of HES, which makes it important carry out in depth analyze of HESs.
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