Economic Dispatch of an Integrated Heat-Power Energy Distribution System with a Concentrating Solar Power Energy Hub
Publication: Journal of Energy Engineering
Volume 143, Issue 5
Abstract
Using multiple energy resources greatly enhances system operating flexibility and efficiency. An energy hub is a vital facility, producing, converting, and storing energy in different forms. Considering heat-power cogeneration and thermal storage capabilities, concentrating solar power (CSP) acts as an energy hub, building physical connections between the power distribution network (PDN) and the district heating network (DHN) in integrated energy systems. The CSP hub, the PDN, and the DHN are respectively formulated to model the economic dispatch of an integrated heat-power distribution system. The linearized DistFLOW model is used to describe the electrical power flow in the PDN. The hydraulic-thermal model is employed to formulate steady-state nodal temperature with constant mass flow rates. Both operating costs and carbon emissions are considered in the objective function, yielding mixed-integer programming with a convex quadratic objective and linear constraints that can be solved by commercial solvers. The effectiveness of the proposed model and the method are validated on a test system in terms of reducing operating costs, carbon emissions, and renewable spillage.
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Acknowledgments
This work was supported in part by the National Natural Science Foundation of China (Nos. 51621065, 51567021, and 51577163) and the State Grid Technology Program (SGRI-DL-71-15-006).
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Received: Oct 16, 2016
Accepted: Mar 21, 2017
Published online: Jun 30, 2017
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