Determining wind turbine capacity for expansion of off grid Internal Combustion Generators (ICG) system; why it bec o mes challenging?

Author

Perera, A.T.D. ; Wickremasinghe, D.M.I.J. ; Mahindarathna, D.V.S. ; Attalage, R.A. ; Perera, K.K.C.K. ; Bartholameuz, E.M.

Author_Institution

Dept. of Mech. Eng., Univ. of Moratuwa, Moratuwa, Sri Lanka

fYear

2010

fDate

6-9 Dec. 2010

Firstpage

1

Lastpage

5

Abstract

Combining renewable energy sources to Internal Combustion Generator (ICG) systems for standalone applications is becoming popular due to higher depletion rate of fossil fuel resources and global concerns on Green House Gas (GHG) emission. In this study, Hybrid Energy System (HES) modeling and simulation was done in order to investigate the impact of Wind Turbine Capacity (WTC) for expansion of such ICG systems. For that, ε-multi objective optimization was used to analyze the effect of varying WTC to Levelized Energy Cost (LEC) and ICG energy output. Obtained results show the importance of multi criterion analysis instead of classical cost optimization in expanding existing ICG systems in a cost effective environment friendly manner.

Keywords

air pollution control; combustion; diesel-electric generators; fossil fuels; optimisation; renewable energy sources; wind turbines; ICG energy output; ICG system; fossil fuel resource; green house gas emission; higher depletion rate; hybrid energy system modeling; levelized energy cost; multicriterion analysis; multiobjective optimization; off grid internal combustion generator; renewable energy source; standalone application; wind turbine capacity; Batteries; Biological system modeling; Hybrid power systems; Mathematical model; Optimization; Renewable energy resources; Wind turbines;

fLanguage

English

Publisher

ieee

Conference_Titel

Sustainable Energy Technologies (ICSET), 2010 IEEE International Conference on

Conference_Location

Kandy

Print_ISBN

978-1-4244-7192-8

Type

conf

DOI

10.1109/ICSET.2010.5684944

Filename

5684944