Design of rural energy systems

‌Optimal design of onboard energy storage systems with volume limitation for urban electrical rail transportation

Train braking energy regeneration in urban electrical rail transportation systems can reduce energy consumption and operational cost of the system. In this paper, optimal design of an onboard energy storage system (OESS) with volume constraint is presented for urban electrical rail transportation systems (ERTS). Onboard super-capacitors are considered as the storage system. The objective functi...

Optimal Sizing Design for Hybrid Renewable Energy Systems in Rural Areas

Small-sized hybrid wind-hydro-solar power generation systems may be designed to solve the power supply problem in some rural areas. Optimal design models are developed to design the hybrid generation systems including battery banks and to provide the optimum system configuration. It is ensured that the annualized cost of the systems is minimized while satisfying the required loss of power suppl...

Interdisciplinary Modelling of Energy Transition in Rural and Urban Systems

The current energy transition towards a rising share of fluctuating and decentrally installed renewable power has introduced new challenges to the modelling of national and regional energy supply systems. More technologies are involved than in centrally designed energy systems, and the physical potential strongly depends on regional context factors. Furthermore, nontechnical factors such as soc...

Integrated Design of Dynamic Sustainable Energy Systems

Recent advancements in the development and investigation of integrated methods for the design of dynamic engineering systems have made possible the achievement of new levels of system performance and now support the ability to systematically identify synergy mechanisms that can improve the effectiveness of system design processes at both early and late stages. Significant efforts in the last se...

Design and Off-design Simulation of Complex Energy Systems