Reliability Evaluation of Smart Distribution Grids with Renewable Energy Sources and Demand Side Management

Pathan, M Ilius; Alowaifeer, Maad; Al-Muhaini, Mohammad; Djokić, Saša Ž.

doi:10.1007/s13369-020-04477-8

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“…However, crosslaboratory studies on MFCs have been carried out using domestic wastewater in identical single-chamber MFCs around the world, where maximum power densities and chemical oxygen demand efficiencies have been quite similar, while the startup time and acclimation stage have been different because of the diversity of the microbial communities (Santoro et al, 2021). It should be noted that there is a plethora of articles dealing with the installation and operation of renewable energy sources in smart grids, with an emphasis on photovoltaics and wind turbines, taking into account their stochasticity (Ullah et al, 2021), demand-side management programs (Osório et al, 2019;Ullah et al, 2020), reliability indices (Pathan et al, 2020), and the use of electric vehicles (Wei et al, 2021). However, the use of MFCs has not been proposed according to the relevant literature.…”

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Microbial Fuel Cell for Wastewater Treatment as Power Plant in Smart Grids: Utopia or Reality?

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Microbial fuel cells (MFCs) have undergone great technological development in the last 20 years, but very little has been done to commercialize them. The simultaneous power production and wastewater treatment are features those greatly increase the interest in the use of MFCs. This kind of distributed power generation is renewable and friendly and can be easily integrated into a smart grid. However, there are some key issues with their commercialization: high construction costs, difficulty in developing high power structures, MFC lifespan, and maintaining a high level of efficiency. The objective of this article is to explore the possibilities of using MFCs in urban wastewater not only regarding the technical criteria of their application, but also mainly from an economic point of view, to determine the conditions through which the viability of the investment is ensured and the possibilities of their integration in a smart grid are identified. Initially, this article explores the implementation/configuration of a power plant with MFCs within an urban wastewater treatment plant on a theoretical basis. In addition, based on the corresponding physical quantities for urban wastewater treatment, the construction and operational costs are determined and the viability of the investment is examined based on classic economic criteria such as net present value, benefit–cost ratio, internal rate of return, and discounted payback period. Furthermore, sensitivity analysis is carried out, concerning both technical parameters, such as the percentage of organic matter removal, power density, sewage residence time, MFC efficiency, etc., and economical parameters, such as the reduction of construction costs due to change of materials, change of interest rate, and lifetime. The advantages and disadvantages of their use in smart grids is also analyzed. The results show that the use of MFCs for power generation cannot be utopian as long as they are integrated into the structure of a central wastewater treatment plant on the condition that the scale-up technical issues of MFCs are successfully addressed.

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Microbial Fuel Cell for Wastewater Treatment as Power Plant in Smart Grids: Utopia or Reality?

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“…The deployment of distributed generation (DG) can improve environmental pollution, defer the need for network expansions, reduce power losses, improve reliability and power quality [1]- [3]. The wind and solar generation are dominant renewable energy sources in the modern grids [4].…”

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Single core configurations of saturated core fault current limiter performance of laboratory test models

Naphade

Ghate

Dhole

2021

IJECE

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Economic growth with industrialization and urbanization lead to an extensive increase in power demand. It forced the utilities to add power generating facilities to cause the necessary demand-generation balance. The bulk power generating stations, mostly interconnected, with the penetration of distributed generation result in an enormous rise in the fault level of power networks. It necessitates for electrical utilities to control the fault current so that the existing switchgear can continue its services without up-gradation or replacement for reliable supply. The deployment of fault current limiter (FCL) at the distribution and transmission networks has been under investigation as a potential solution to the problem. A saturated core fault current limiter (SCFCL) technology is a smart, scalable, efficient, reliable, and commercially viable option to manage fault levels in existing and future MV/HV supply systems. This paper presents the comparative performance analysis of two single-core SCFCL topologies impressed with different core saturations. It has demonstrated that the single AC winding configuration needs more bias power for affecting the same current limiting performance with an acceptable steady-state voltage drop contribution. The fault state impedance has a transient nature, and the optimum bias selection is a critical design parameter in realizing the SCFCL applications.

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A Multiscale study of flexible customer’s energy demand under smart grid architecture: A modeling and simulation study

Abassi,

El Jai,

Arid

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Energy Efficiency

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Reliability Evaluation of Smart Distribution Grids with Renewable Energy Sources and Demand Side Management

Cited by 10 publications

References 20 publications

Microbial Fuel Cell for Wastewater Treatment as Power Plant in Smart Grids: Utopia or Reality?

Microbial Fuel Cell for Wastewater Treatment as Power Plant in Smart Grids: Utopia or Reality?

Single core configurations of saturated core fault current limiter performance of laboratory test models

A Multiscale study of flexible customer’s energy demand under smart grid architecture: A modeling and simulation study

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