Sizing of Stand-Alone Solar PV and Storage System With Anaerobic Digestion Biogas Power Plants

This paper presents a deterministic approach for sizing a solar photovoltaic (PV) and energy storage system (ESS) with anaerobic digestion (AD) biogas power plant (BPP) to meet a proportional scaled-down demand of the national load in Kenya, Africa. The aim is to achieve a minimal levelized cost of...

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Published in:IEEE transactions on industrial electronics (1982) 2017-03, Vol.64 (3), p.2112-2121
Main Authors: Chun Sing Lai, McCulloch, Malcolm D.
Format: Article
Language:English
Subjects:
Anaerobic digestion
Anaerobic digestion (AD)
Biogas
Energy storage
Generators
Hybrid systems
levelized cost of energy (LCOE)
microgrid
optimal sizing
Optimization
Particle swarm optimization
photovoltaic (PV)
Photovoltaic cells
Photovoltaic systems
Power plants
Sizing
Turbines
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Summary:This paper presents a deterministic approach for sizing a solar photovoltaic (PV) and energy storage system (ESS) with anaerobic digestion (AD) biogas power plant (BPP) to meet a proportional scaled-down demand of the national load in Kenya, Africa. The aim is to achieve a minimal levelized cost of energy (LCOE) for the system while minimizing the energy imbalance between generation and demand due to AD generator constraint and solar resource. This system also aims to maximize the sizing of PV as to follow the future trend of high penetration of PV. LCOE for the system and a levelized cost of delivery (LCOD) are calculated for the hybrid energy system with the presence of energy storage. Four years of solar data collected from Johannesburg, Africa, are used for system sizing purposes. An in-depth study of the optimization problem has been given and particle swarm optimization with the interior point method is chosen for solar panel sizing. The optimal sizing ratio for the generation sources AD and PV is 2.4:5. The results show that the hybrid system will be cost effective compared to the AD-only system when the discount rate drops below 8% with the current technology costs.
ISSN:0278-0046
1557-9948
DOI:10.1109/TIE.2016.2625781