Optimum Design of Small Autonomous System with Unconventional Energy Sources.

Document Type : Research Studies

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Associate Professor of Electrical Power and Machines Department, Faculty of Engineering, Mansoura University, Mansoura, Egypt.

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This paper presents a suggested method in computing the optimum design of a combined power system. This system contains: diesel generators, wind turbine generators, solar cells arrays, and storage batteries. This method is also used in determining the economic benefits obtained on interconnecting the wind turbine generators, solar cells arrays and storage batteries with the diesel generators used in feeding loads of remote sites. The proposed method determines: sizes and types of the diesel generators numbers and types of wind turbine generators solar cells arrays size and battery storage capacity used in compensating the surplus or the deficit occurred in the generated energy. These parameters are essentially dependent upon the required load and the characteristics of the site at which the system is installed. These characteristics are represented by the solar radiation data and the wind speed profile. A numerical application is presented in the end of this paper revealing the validity of the proposed method and the developed results are discussed.

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