Abstract—High penetration of intermittent renewable energy sources (RES) such as solar power and wind power into the energy system has caused temporal and spatial imbalance between electric power supply and demand for some countries and regions. This brings about the critical need for coordinating power production and power exchange for different regions. As compared with the poweronly systems,...

District heating plants are becoming more common in European cities, especially in the northern countries. These systems make it possible to furnish users with warm water while locating the production plants in the outskirts. This has the double benefit of lowering the impact of pollution on the center of the city and achieving better conversion performances compared to individual heating plant...

Implementation of biomass plants is often thwarted by public opposition, despite potential technicaleconomic and normative feasibility. This opposition is generally known as NIMBY effect. One of the most adopted political action able to overcome or to control NIMBY effect is the information of population about ex-ante and ex-post characteristics of the intervention. However, the informative app...

Based upon the thermodynamic simulation of a biogas-SOFC integrated process and costing its elements, present work examines economic feasibility biogas-SOFCs for combined heat power (CHP) generation, by comparison their performance against conventional biogas-CHP with internal combustion engines (ICEs), under same assumptions. As well as issues scale an SOFC’s cost, examined in literature, stud...

The need to reduce global CO2 emissions is urgent and might be facilitated by carbon capture storage (CCS) technologies. Sweden has a goal reach net-zero 2045. Negative bio-CCS (BECCS) have been proposed as important strategies this target at the lowest cost. Swedish district heating sector constitutes large potential for BECCS, with biogenic point sources of in form combined heat power (CHP) p...

introduction: fao aquacrop model (raes et al., 2009a; steduto et al., 2009) is a user-friendly and practitioner oriented type of model, because it maintains an optimal balance between accuracy, robustness, and simplicity; and it requires a relatively small number of model input parameters. the fao aquacrop model predicts crop productivity, water requirement, and water use efficiency under water...

Combined heat and power (CHP) plants are widely used in industrial applications. In the aftermath of the recession, many of the associated production processes are under-utilized, which challenges the competitiveness of chemical companies. However, under-utilization can be a chance for tighter interaction with the power grid, which is in transition to the so-called smart grid, if the CHP plant ...