Economic analysis and optimal capacity sizing of turbo-expander-based microgrid

Reza Ghanaee; Asghar Akbari Foroud

Economic analysis and optimal capacity sizing of turbo-expander-based microgrid

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Author(s): Reza Ghanaee ¹ and Asghar Akbari Foroud ¹
- Affiliations: 1: Electrical and Computer Engineering Faculty, Semnan University, Semnan, Iran
Source: Volume 11, Issue 4, 15 March 2017, p. 511 – 520
DOI: 10.1049/iet-rpg.2016.0390 , Print ISSN 1752-1416, Online ISSN 1752-1424

Received 12/05/2016, Accepted 13/11/2016, Revised 10/09/2016, Published 15/11/2016

These days, extensive efforts are being carried out to improve energy efficiency and energy recovery in various energy systems, such as extraction of energy from the high-pressure natural gas (NG) in pressure reduction stations (PRSs) employing a turbo-expander (TE). In conventional PRSs, NG pressure reduction is carried out by pressure regulators, leading to the loss of mechanical exergy available in the pressurised NG as heat. Thus, replacing a pressure regulator with TE allows the extraction of the mechanical exergy to change into electrical form of energy by coupling with a generator. So, a novel configuration is presented here for grid-connected microgrid based on TE. Furthermore, a new procedure is developed for optimal capacity sizing of energy resources in the proposed TE-based microgrid. Finally, optimisation results (with and without TE) and economical considerations are discussed.

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