scholarly journals Data-Driven Scheduling of Electric Boiler with Thermal Storage for Providing Power Balancing Service

Author(s):  
Likai Liu ◽  
Zechun Hu ◽  
Jian Ning ◽  
Yilin Wen
Energies ◽  
2019 ◽  
Vol 13 (1) ◽  
pp. 98 ◽  
Author(s):  
Rakesh Sinha ◽  
Birgitte Bak-Jensen ◽  
Jayakrishnan Radhakrishna Pillai ◽  
Hamidreza Zareipour

Active use of heat accumulators in the thermal system has the potential for achieving flexibility in district heating with the power to heat (P2H) units, such as electric boilers (EB) and heat pumps. Thermal storage tanks can decouple demand and generation, enhancing accommodation of sustainable energy sources such as solar and wind. The overview of flexibility, using EB and storage, supported by investigating the nature of thermal demand in a Danish residential area, is presented in this paper. Based on the analysis, curve-fitting tools, such as neural net and similar day method, are trained to estimate the residential thermal demand. Utilizing the estimated demand and hourly market spot price of electricity, the operation of the EB is scheduled for storing and fulfilling demand and minimizing energy cost simultaneously. This demonstrates flexibility and controlling the EB integrated into a multi-energy system framework. Results show that the curve fitting tool is effectively suitable to acknowledge thermal demands of residential area based on the environmental factor as well as user behaviour. The thermal storage has the capability of operating as a flexible load to support P2H system as well as minimize the effect of estimation error in fulfilling actual thermal demand simultaneously.


2022 ◽  
Vol 355 ◽  
pp. 02060
Author(s):  
Yingying Yao ◽  
Xiaobo Wang ◽  
Zhongzhou Dou ◽  
Hang Wang ◽  
Zeyang Li

During the heating period, the thermal storage electric boiler helps the thermal power units to participate in the deep peak regulation by converting the electric energy into heat energy for heating users, but in the non-heating period, the thermal storage electric boiler can not operate because there is no heat user, as a result, the thermal storage electric boiler is shut down in summer, and can not assist the thermal power unit to participate in the deep peak regulation. Therefore, this paper designs an electric thermal storage boiler regenerative system for peak shaving in summer. In this regenerative system, electric boiler is used to heat circulating water in heating period, and electric boiler is used to heat condensed water in non-heating period, and in the non-heating period, the number of low-pressure heaters can be adjusted according to the load and heat storage capacity of the units, so that the electric boiler can assist the thermal power units to participate in the deep peak regulation throughout the year, taking a 350MW unit with 70MW regenerative electric boiler as an example, the heat exchange capacity is calculated to verify the feasibility of the regenerative system. In this paper, a new method of heating condensate by regenerative electric boiler in non-heating period is proposed to solve the problem that the new energy can not be used and the energy is wasted in summer.


2021 ◽  
Author(s):  
Yong Sun ◽  
Yuhang Qiu ◽  
Baoju Li ◽  
Chang Liu ◽  
Shang Wang ◽  
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2020 ◽  
Vol 143 ◽  
pp. 02013
Author(s):  
Linjun Cai ◽  
Zheng Zhang ◽  
Dongliang Xie ◽  
Xiaofang Song ◽  
Yening Lai

After providing a better service for nearby heating loads, a thermal storage electric boiler system can use the heat storage tank to participate in the peak-shaving and reserve services of the power grid. Current researches focus on its peak-shaving capacity, but ignores the use of its reserve capacity, which is important to the random fluctuations of renewable energy sources. Facing the actual analyzing demands on power system adequacy, this paper starts with the discussion of typical operation modes, and builds the powersystem- adequacy model of a thermal-storage electric boiler based heating system. Based on the presented model, the concept of feasible domain for heat charging and discharging is proposed. By implementing the concept, the quantitative evaluation method to calculate the reserve capacity of a thermal storage electric boiler system is proposed. The verification of the method is also given. Based on the planning data of an actual power grid, the short-term reserve capacity as well as the effect on promoting renewable energy consumption is estimated according to the given size of the provincial thermal storage electric boiler clusters. Finally, the influences of different choices of peak-shaving strategies, heat storage tank capacity on its reserve capacity are simulated and analyzed.


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