Design and Implementation of an Offgrid Hybrid Power Supply with Reduced Battery Energy Storage
Remote areas in Australia are mostly powered by conventional diesel generators (DG). These systems face challenging tasks of increasing diesel costs, transportation of diesel over long distances, increased fuel consumption and maintenance costs associated with running the DGs in low load conditions....
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| author | Mathews, Shaji Rajakaruna, S. Nayar, Chemmangot |
| author2 | Michael Negnevitsky |
| author_facet | Michael Negnevitsky Mathews, Shaji Rajakaruna, S. Nayar, Chemmangot |
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| description | Remote areas in Australia are mostly powered by conventional diesel generators (DG). These systems face challenging tasks of increasing diesel costs, transportation of diesel over long distances, increased fuel consumption and maintenance costs associated with running the DGs in low load conditions. Furthermore, regulations by governments and lobbying by environmental activists are rising due to the atmospheric pollution and noise caused by DGs. The objective of this paper is to report the design, development and installation of a Photovoltaic (PV) diesel hybrid-power system. The design objective is to minimize costly battery energy storage by using an innovative variable speed diesel generator. Diesel fuel saving is achieved by running the DG in variable speed mode as well as managing the operation of the generator. HOMER software is used to simulate various battery and PV sizes and decide on the optimum sizes. The system has been field tested over a period of 12 months in Veterans retreat, Meentheena Cattle Station near Marble Bar, the hottest place in Australia. |
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| spelling | curtin-20.500.11937-279112017-01-30T13:01:55Z Design and Implementation of an Offgrid Hybrid Power Supply with Reduced Battery Energy Storage Mathews, Shaji Rajakaruna, S. Nayar, Chemmangot Michael Negnevitsky Variable speed drive Hybrid system Renewable energy Marble Bar remote Battery backup Remote areas in Australia are mostly powered by conventional diesel generators (DG). These systems face challenging tasks of increasing diesel costs, transportation of diesel over long distances, increased fuel consumption and maintenance costs associated with running the DGs in low load conditions. Furthermore, regulations by governments and lobbying by environmental activists are rising due to the atmospheric pollution and noise caused by DGs. The objective of this paper is to report the design, development and installation of a Photovoltaic (PV) diesel hybrid-power system. The design objective is to minimize costly battery energy storage by using an innovative variable speed diesel generator. Diesel fuel saving is achieved by running the DG in variable speed mode as well as managing the operation of the generator. HOMER software is used to simulate various battery and PV sizes and decide on the optimum sizes. The system has been field tested over a period of 12 months in Veterans retreat, Meentheena Cattle Station near Marble Bar, the hottest place in Australia. 2013 Conference Paper http://hdl.handle.net/20.500.11937/27911 http://ieeexplore.ieee.org/stamp/stamp.jsp?tp=&arnumber=6725353 University of Tasmania restricted |
| spellingShingle | Variable speed drive Hybrid system Renewable energy Marble Bar remote Battery backup Mathews, Shaji Rajakaruna, S. Nayar, Chemmangot Design and Implementation of an Offgrid Hybrid Power Supply with Reduced Battery Energy Storage |
| title | Design and Implementation of an Offgrid Hybrid Power Supply with Reduced Battery Energy Storage |
| title_full | Design and Implementation of an Offgrid Hybrid Power Supply with Reduced Battery Energy Storage |
| title_fullStr | Design and Implementation of an Offgrid Hybrid Power Supply with Reduced Battery Energy Storage |
| title_full_unstemmed | Design and Implementation of an Offgrid Hybrid Power Supply with Reduced Battery Energy Storage |
| title_short | Design and Implementation of an Offgrid Hybrid Power Supply with Reduced Battery Energy Storage |
| title_sort | design and implementation of an offgrid hybrid power supply with reduced battery energy storage |
| topic | Variable speed drive Hybrid system Renewable energy Marble Bar remote Battery backup |
| url | http://ieeexplore.ieee.org/stamp/stamp.jsp?tp=&arnumber=6725353 http://hdl.handle.net/20.500.11937/27911 |