Thermo-Ecological Cost of Electricity Generated in Wind Turbine Systems

2018 ◽  
Vol 141 (3) ◽  
Author(s):  
Tomasz Simla ◽  
Wojciech Stanek ◽  
Lucyna Czarnowska

Wind power is one of the most popular renewable energy sources (RES), characterized by rapid growth of installed power in the energy mix of many countries. Usually, the influence of wind technologies on the depletion of nonrenewable resources is evaluated taking into account the consumption of energy and materials in the construction phase. However, it should be noted that the major drawback of wind energy is its random availability which also influences the consumption of resources. This consumption results from the necessity of compensation for random operation of wind power plants by conventional ones operating in off-design point. In the present work, thermo-ecological cost (TEC) is proposed for the evaluation of the performance of wind generation systems operating with random accessibility of wind energy. The presented analysis focuses on the estimation of additional non-renewable energy consumption due to the part-load operation of the conventional power units. Different strategies are assumed for the compensation for the hourly wind power variations. The presented results of TEC analysis show that the part of TEC resulting from induced losses can be significant. The authors prove that, within the assessment of wind turbines, the induced losses cannot be omitted.

2021 ◽  
Vol 288 ◽  
pp. 01003
Author(s):  
Saken Koyshybaevich Sheryazov ◽  
Sultanbek Sansyzbaevich Issenov ◽  
Ruslan Maratbekovich Iskakov ◽  
Argyn Bauyrzhanuly Kaidar

The paper describes special aspects of using the wind power plants (wind turbines) in the power grid. The paper provides the classification and schematic presentation of AC wind turbines, analyzes the role, place and performance of wind power plants in Smart Grid systems with a large share of renewable energy sources. The authors also reviews a detailed analysis of existing AC wind turbines in this paper. Recommendations are given for how to enhance the wind power plants in smart grids in terms of reliability, and introduce the hardware used in the generation, conversion and interface systems into the existing power grid. After the wind power plants had been put online, the relevance of the Smart Grid concept for existing power grids was obvious. The execution of such projects is assumed to be financially costly, requires careful study, and development of flexible algorithms, but in some cases this may be the only approach. The analysis of using wind turbines shows that the structural configuration of wind power plants can be based on the principles known in the power engineering. The approaches may differ, not fundamentally, but in engineering considerations. it is necessary to point out that the method of controlling dual-power machines is quite comprehensive so that their wide use will face operational problems caused by the lack of highly professional specialists in electric drives. Therefore, it seems advisable to use square-cage asynchronous generators in wide applications. The paper shows that as the renewable energy sources are largely used in power grids, there is an issue of maintaining the power generation at a required level considering the variability of incoming wind energy. This results in the malfunctions in the operation of relay protection devices and emergency control automatics (RP and ECA), and the complicated control. Also, the standards of the CIS countries and regulatory documents miss the requirements for the wind turbine protections, taking into account their specialty causing the inefficient standard protective logic, which does not work correctly in a number of abnormal and emergency operating modes, and especially Smart Grid in power grids.


2020 ◽  
Vol 24 (1) ◽  
pp. 691-705
Author(s):  
Abozar Hashemi ◽  
Ghasem Derakhshan ◽  
M. R. Alizadeh Pahlavani ◽  
Babak Abdi

Abstract Decreasing fossil energy resources and increasing greenhouse gas emissions increase the need for clean and renewable energy sources day by day. One of the sources of renewable energy is wind power, which has been constantly evolving in recent years. Wind power plants are sometimes unresponsive during peak hours, so a backup storage system seems essential for these power plants. In this study, a hybrid system is presented for connection to wind power plants consisting of fuel cell and hydrogen production, to provide reliable power and valuable by-products. In this paper, a case study is conducted for the desired system in the Shahryar County. The techno-economic optimization of the above system indicates that in the best design (consisting of three wind turbines), the annual production capacity of the hybrid system will be 1795 MWh, of which 12 % is the share of fuel cells. The results show that the hybrid system increases the capacity factor of the wind power plant by 2.8 %. The calculated cost of energy (COE) and the net present cost (NPC) for the hybrid system would amount to $ 0.77 and $ 5 235.066, respectively.


Energies ◽  
2020 ◽  
Vol 13 (20) ◽  
pp. 5291
Author(s):  
Stefano Bracco

The exploitation of distributed renewable energy sources leads to a low-carbon energy transition, mainly based on the optimal integration of hydro, PV and wind power plants with the remaining high-performance fossil-fuel power stations. In the last twenty years, European Union (EU) countries have shown a significant increase of the power installed in new PV and wind power plants, together with the refurbishment of small and medium size hydro stations. In particular, in Italy, PV and wind energy production has strongly increased and nowadays there are regions characterized by a very green energy mix. In this new scenario, energy storage becomes a viable solution to mitigate the variability of renewable energy sources thus optimizing the network operation. The present paper is focused on the Liguria region, in the North of Italy and in particular on the Bormida Valley where nowadays more than the half of the annual electricity consumption is covered by the renewable energy local production. The paper describes the current energy situation and proposes an optimization tool to investigate the possibility of installing new PV and wind power plants, as well as energy intensive storage units based on sodium-sulphur batteries; moreover, different scenarios are analyzed through the definition of economic and environmental key performance indicators.


2020 ◽  
Vol 175 ◽  
pp. 11009
Author(s):  
Nikolay Rudenko ◽  
Valery Ershov ◽  
Viacheslav Evstafev

The article contains the following technical proposals for the power supply of autonomous agricultural facilities using renewable energy sources: the use of hybrid solar-wind power plants, the use of vortex wind power plants with a vertical axis to use both the energy of horizontal wind flows and the energy of upward air flows. The structure and operation algorithm of an autonomous power supply system based on a hybrid solarwind power plant and a diesel generator for autonomous agricultural facilities of small and medium power in regions where there is no distribution electric network are proposed. This system will allow for insufficient wind load to ensure reliable power supply to an autonomous agricultural facility with minimal use of diesel fuel. The design of a vortex wind power installation has been developed. The fastening on the shaft of the wind power installation of a conical helical blade with a variable radius, decreasing in the direction from the lower to the upper cut of the socket, improves the efficiency of the installation. The proposed installation makes it possible to use small winds and low-potential thermal ascending air currents, reduce low-frequency vibration and noise, and also increase the stability and efficiency of use of wind energy.


2019 ◽  
Vol 18 (4) ◽  
pp. 821-845
Author(s):  
Ali Mostafaeipour ◽  
Sajjad Sadeghi ◽  
Mehdi Jahangiri ◽  
Omid Nematollahi ◽  
Ali Rezaeian Sabbagh

Purpose Wind as a major source of renewable energy has received tremendous attentions due to its unique features to reduce carbon emission and also to keep the environment safe. Nevertheless, to use wind energy properly, the environmental circumstances and geographical location related to wind intensity should be considered as a priority. Different factors may affect the selection of a suitable location for developments of wind power plants; thus, these factors should be considered concurrently to identify the optimum location of wind plants. Design/methodology/approach In this study, first, basic data envelopment analysis (DEA) was used, then dual DEA was used and, finally, Anderson Petersen (AP) model of dual DEA was selected to prioritize cities or decision-making units (DMUs). Numerical Taxonomy (NT) method was also used to assess the validity of AP dual model in DEA. The prescribed approach was applied for five cities in East Azerbaijan province of Iran. Findings The results indicate that wind power as a renewable energy can be harnessed in few cities, and the ranking by DEA illustrated that the city of Tabriz is the first priority. Practical implications Low environmental degradation effects in comparison to other methods and the ability to utilization at a widespread level include the benefits of using wind energy in the generation of electricity. In this regard, the study of relevant potentials and finding suitable locations for the deployment of wind energy utilization equipment are essential. Using DEA method helps us to choose optimal locations according to different criteria. Social implications Wind energy is justifiable in reducing social costs in comparison with fossil fuel plants, which includes negative effects, and its electricity can be used as a sustainable energy in the country's economic, social and cultural development. Originality/value For identifying the most proper location for development of wind power plants in Iran, DEA is applied for the first time to prioritize the suitable locations for installations of wind turbines among five different cities in the East Azerbaijan region. A number of crucial factors including land price, distance to power, rate of natural hazards, wind speed and topography are considered for location optimization of wind turbines for the first time. Also, to validate the results of DEA method, NT method is used to assess the validity of AP dual model in DEA.


2020 ◽  
Vol 207 ◽  
pp. 02013
Author(s):  
Cansev Genç ◽  
Abdulla Sakalli ◽  
Ivaylo Stoyanov ◽  
Teodor Iliev ◽  
Grigor Mihaylov ◽  
...  

This article analyses the development of wind energy in Turkey - the number and capacity of installed wind generators, as well as the generated electricity. It was established that the number of wind power plants is 99 with a total installed capacity of 3933 MW, and the amount of electricity produced by wind power plants is 17909.3 GWh / year. Turkey has been shown to have great potential for developing electricity generation from offshore wind farms. The increase in the number of offshore wind turbines in the coming years is expected to increase the relative share of renewable sources in the country’s energy mix, to contribute to the technological and industrial development of the regions, to produce electricity from renewable and environmentally friendly sources and to reduce the country’s energy dependence. It has been established that there are appropriate conditions in Turkey for the development of wind energy and preconditions have been created for achieving the target for promoting the use of renewable energy sources by 2023.


2022 ◽  
Vol 7 (4) ◽  
pp. 5241-5274
Author(s):  
Attaullah ◽  
◽  
Shahzaib Ashraf ◽  
Noor Rehman ◽  
Asghar Khan ◽  
...  

<abstract><p>Wind energy is one of the most significant renewable energy sources due to its widespread availability, low environmental impact, and great cost-effectiveness. The effective design of ideal wind energy extraction areas to generate electricity is one of the most critical issues in the exploitation of wind energy. The appropriate site selection for wind power plants is based on the concepts and criteria of sustainable environmental advancement, resulting in a low-cost and renewable energy source, as well as cost-effectiveness and job creation. The aim of this article is to introduce the idea of q-rung orthopair hesitant fuzzy rough set (q-ROHFRS) as a robust fusion of q-rung orthopair fuzzy set, hesitant fuzzy set, and rough set. A q-ROHFRS is a new approach towards modeling uncertainties in the multi-criteria decision making (MCDM). Various key properties of q-ROHFRS and some elementary operations on q-ROHFRSs are established. A list of novel q-rung orthopair hesitant fuzzy rough weighted geometric aggregation operators are developed on the basis of defined operational laws for q-ROHFRSs. Further, a decision making algorithm is developed to handle the uncertain and incomplete information in real word decision making problems. Then, a multi-attribute decision making method is established using q-rung orthopair hesitant fuzzy rough aggregation operators. Afterwards, a practical case study on evaluating the location of wind power plants is presented to validate the potential of the proposed technique. Further, comparative analysis based on the novel extended TOPSIS method is presented to demonstrate the capability of the proposed technique.</p></abstract>


Author(s):  
Anton Čauševski ◽  
Tome Boševski

A b s t r a c t: The trend for achieving sustainable energy development, keeping the environment clean and utilization of renewable energy sources are imperative to the energy development in several countries. Through legislation and economical benefits, countries tend to encourage potential investors for building the technologies for energy production from renewable. In order to achieve the EU energy target to have 20% renewable in 2020, the technologies for producing electricity from renewable energy sources (RES) are used to cover the needs with more intensities. The most dominant renewable is the wind power plants(WPP) or wind parks, which are used to supply electricity to more power systems (EPS) and whose installed capacity in some European countries reaches thousands MW. This paper treats the issue of operational work of wind power in the power system of Macedonia. It is made of simulation work with wind power plants with total installed capacity of 150 MW with an annual production of 300 GWh. The considered power system of Macedonia is projected for the period of 2015 with an annual consumption of 10,000 GWh. The power plants considering operating in the simulated period are the existing thermal power units and hydro power plants together with the planned gas power plants and hydro power plants. The aim of this paper is to analyze the effects of the power system operation in case to have installed wind power plants, or what operation mode of thermal power plants (TPP) and hydro power plants (HPP) is most convenient when the system has a source of technology from the renewable with stochastically nature. This is especially important, because conventional power plants (TPP and HPP) operate and regulate the needs of consumption in the power system, but the wind power plants operate when the wind occurs within certain limits of  technical operating mode for wind turbines. Although wind is free renewable energy source, frequency of occurrence of wind with unpredictable nature and stochastically, has additional adverse impact in terms of power system operating mode. Certainly the impact of wind power on the overall the power system operation depends on power plants and configuration of the power system. In other words, the base load is covered from TPP fossil fuel or nuclear plants, and the dynamic nature of wind power can be incorporated in the power system depends on how much power plants for peak load are available in the system (storage reversible hydro or gas turbines), or how variable power can be accepted in the power system.


Author(s):  
Arin Wildani ◽  
Septiana Kurniasari

ABSTRAK Ketergantungan Indonesia terhadap ketersediaan energi fosil menjadi masalah baru dalam kelangsungan hidup rakyat Indonesia di masa yang akan datang. Energi fosil yang bersifat terbatas dan tidak terbarukan akan habis dalam kurun waktu tertentu. Sehingga diperlukan langkah baru untuk menggunakan energi baru dan terbarukan seperti energi angin. Penelitian ini dilakukan untuk mengetahui potensi pembangunan pembangkit listrik tenaga angin di wilayah Kecamatan Pangarengan Kabupaten Sampang Madura.  Penelitian ini dilakukan dengan cara menganalisa kecepatan angin berdasarkan data dari pengukuran anemometer menggunakan distribusi Weibull. Data yang digunakan yaitu data sekunder yang didapatkan dari dari BMKG Kalianget Sumenep. Berdasarkan distribusi weibull didapatkan bahwa parameter  k sebesar 2,67dan c sebesar 2,88. Dari nilai k dan c didapatkan bahwa persentase probabilitas energi angin paling banyak pada tahun 2016 yaitu 2,5 m/s sebanyak 45%  sedangkan tahun 2017 sebesar 2,6 m/s dengan probabilitas 70%.Kata kunci: energi angin, kecamatan pangarengan, distribusi weibull ABSTRACTIndonesia's dependence on fossil energy availability is a new problem in the survival of the Indonesian people in the future. Fossil energy that is limited and non-renewable will run out in a certain period of time. So that new steps are needed to use new and renewable energy such as wind energy. This research was conducted to determine the potential for the construction of wind power plants in the Pangarengan District, Sampang Madura District. This research was conducted by analyzing wind speed based on data from anemometer measurements using the Weibull distribution. The data used are secondary data obtained from BMKG Kalianget Sumenep. Based on the weibull distribution it was found that the parameters k were 2.67 and c were 2.88. From the values of k and c, it was found that the percentage of probability of wind energy was the most in 2016, which was 2.5 m/s as much as 45% while in 2017 it was 2.6 m / s with a probability of 70%.


Author(s):  
O. V. Marchenko ◽  
S. V. Solomin

Techno-economic indicators of renewable (solar and wind) and non-renewable energy sources are systematized, taking into account the interval of their uncertainty for the conditions of the countries of the Commonwealth of Independent States (CIS). The main attention was paid to Russia and the countries of Central Asia (Kazakhstan, Kyrgyzstan, Tajikistan, Turkmenistan and Uzbekistan), where there are the most favorable conditions for the development of solar and wind energy. A comparison of renewable and non-renewable energy sources by the criterion of the cost of generated electricity has been made. It is shown that the payment for greenhouse gas emissions increases the competitiveness of solar and wind power plants in the energy markets. Under favorable conditions for renewable energy, solar and wind installations in some areas can produce cheap electricity at a cost of 3–5 cents/(kW×h). With such values, they can be competitive without additional measures to stimulate their implementation. Using the mathematical model REM-2 (Renewable Energy Model), energy sources of different types were compared taking into account system effects. The power supply system consists of photovoltaic converters, wind turbines that enable the possibility of short-term accumulation of electricity and power consumption from a backup power source. Modeling of photoelectric converters and wind turbines operating modes was performed by time (hours) for different values of solar radiation arrival and wind speed. The optimal ratios between electricity production by photovoltaic converters and wind turbines, as well as the optimal level of electricity consumption from the network under different climatic and economic conditions, were determined. The economic efficiency of joint use of solar and wind energy in the CIS countries, primarily in Russia (with the exception of the northern regions) and the countries of Central Asia, is shown.


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