Peaking power plant

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Peaking power plants, also known as peaker plants, and occasionally just "peakers", are power plants that generally run only when there is a high demand, known as peak demand, for electricity. Because they supply power only occasionally, the power supplied commands a much higher price per kilowatt hour than base load power. Peak load power plants are dispatched in combination with base load power plants, which supply a dependable and consistent amount of electricity, to meet the minimum demand. Although historically peaking power plants were frequently used in conjunction with coal baseload plants, peaking plants are now used less commonly. Combined cycle gas turbine plants have two or more cycles, the first of which is very similar to a peaking plant, with the second running on the waste heat of the first. That type of plant is often capable of rapidly starting up, albeit at reduced efficiency, and then over some hours transitioning to a more efficient baseload generation mode. Comb

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Study of the Integration of District Heating and Cooling with an Electro-Thermal Energy Storage System

Anurag Kumar Sachan

Peak load levelling through peak shaving and valley ﬁlling is need of the hour in the electricity grid network. A reserve plant or a large scale electric energy storage plant could be the way out to handle the variable load situations. Though the re- serve plants have its limitations and often increase the load on the transmission and grid system, rather than reducing the load during off peak hours. A novel technique of site-independent energy storage is studied in this thesis work, which do have more positives about balancing the electrical grid. While, proﬁtability of the energy stor- age is lie on very thin margins of peak and off peak hour spot electricity market price. The considered thermal storage operates in a heat-pump mode during the charg- ing period and in a thermal-engine mode during discharging period. The idea is to utilise the design concept to integrate with the district energy services, while com- peting with the conventional district services. The design modiﬁcations has been evaluated based on the efficiency performance and the a proﬁtability studyis performed.

2012

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Supercapacitor Thermal Modeling and Characterization in Transient State for Industrial Applications

Roland Gallay

A new thermal model, which allows temperature distribution determination inside a supercapacitor cell, is developed. The model is tested for a supercapacitor based on the activated carbon and organic electrolyte technology. In hybrid vehicle applications, supercapacitors are used as energy-storage devices, offering the possibility of providing the peak-power requirement. They are charged and discharged at a high current rate The problem with this operating mode is the large amount of heat produced in the device which can lead to its destruction. An accurate thermal modeling of the internal temperature is required to design a cooling system for supercapacitor module, meeting the safety and reliability of the power systems. The purpose of this paper is to study the supercapacitor temperature distribution in steady and transient states. A thermal model is developed; it is based on the finite-differential method which allows for the supercapacitor thermal resistance determination. The originality of this paper is in the fact that a thermocouple (type K) was placed inside the supercapacitor from Maxwell Technologies. A test bench is realized. The cases of supercapacitor thermal distribution using natural and forced convection are studied. Simulations and experimental results are reported to validate the proposed model. The results obtained with this model may be used to determine the cooling system required for actual supercapacitor applications.

2009

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Climate change and urbanization are two major challenges when planning for sustainable energy transition in cities. The common approach for energy demand estimation is using only typical meso-scale weather data in building energy models (BEMs), which underestimates the impacts of extreme climate and microclimate variations. To quantify the impacts of such underestimation on assessing the future energy performance of buildings, this study simulates a high spatiotemporal resolution BEM for two representative residential buildings located in a 600 × 600 m2 urban area in Southeast Sweden while accounting for both climate change and microclimate. Future climate data are synthesized using 13 future climate scenarios over 2010-2099, divided into three 30-year periods, and microclimate data are generated considering the urban morphology of the area. It is revealed that microclimate can cause 17% rise in cooling degree-day (CDD) and 7% reduction in heating degree-day (HDD) on average compared to mesoclimate. Considering typical weather conditions, CDD increases by 45% and HDD decreases by 8% from one 30-year period to another. Differences can become much larger during extreme weather conditions. For example, CDD can increase by 500% in an extreme warm July compared to a typical one. Results also indicate that annual cooling demand becomes four and five times bigger than 2010-2039 in 2040-2069 and 2070-2099, respectively. The daily peak cooling load can increase up to 25% in an extreme warm day when accounting for microclimate. In the absence of cooling systems during extreme warm days, the indoor temperature stays above 26°C continuously over a week and reaches above 29.2°C. Moreover, the annual overheating hours can increase up to 140% in the future. These all indicate that not accounting for influencing climate variations can result in maladaptation or insufficient adaptation of urban areas to climate change.

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