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System modeling and dispatch schedule optimization of combined PV battery system using linear optimization
2021
Master's thesis in Renewable energy (ENE500) Energy storage plays a vital role in paving the way for more renewable penetration. The technology is costly, but intelligent solutions regarding dispatch strategies and system design can help reduce the total cost over the projected lifetime of a system. For this thesis, a customizable linear programming algorithm is created within Python to optimize the battery energy scheduling based on generated PV power, electricity cost and load demand. The commercial system optimization tool HOMER is used to verify the code by running simulations based on historic data collected from Nord Pool and UiAs own photovoltaic system. One benefit of the custom mad…
Optimization of Power Supply for Hydrology-and Meteorology-stations : Optimization of power supply for off-grid hydrology- and meteorology-stationsus…
2019
Master's thesis Renewable Energy ENE500 - University of Agder 2019 This thesis consider a case study of a PV/wind/battery hybrid energy system installed at Scanmatic ASheadquarters in Arendal, Norway. The energy system is a stand-alone and off-grid hybrid system. It consistof four PV panels of 20 W with different tilt and orientation, a wind turbine of 300 W and a battery of1.4 kWh. This work consider machine learning and artificial intelligence in Python 3 for prediction andoptimization. Machine learning is used to predict the power production from the system components basedon the weather data at site. Artificial intelligence is used to optimize the system size based on cost and theabilit…
Characterization of coating on graphite anode material for lithium-ion batteries
2021
Master's thesis in Renewable energy (ENE500) To improve the performance of lithium-ion batteries, the graphite anode can be treated with special coating. Thus the charge transfer resistance through the material can be lowered and thereby enable e.g. faster charging. The amount of coating is essential the improve the performance. The thesis is investigating thermogravimetric and electrochemical impedance spectroscopy as a method to identify an optimal relation between the amount of coating and the charge transfer resistance. There is found that lower material resistivity gives a higher weight loss where it is assumed that the coating is oxidising, methods for both a relative difference in th…
Ammonia Fuelled Solid Oxide Fuel Cell to Power Maritime Applications
2021
Master's thesis in Renewable energy (ENE500) Ammonia fuelled solid oxide fuel cell (SOFC) systems are regarded as a promising alternative for energy production due to high efficiency and low environmental impact. Ammonia is a carbon free compound with high energy density, low production cost and much simpler transport-and storage properties than hydrogen. The state-of-the-art SOFC contains a Ni/YSZ anode which has proven to be an effective catalyst to crack ammonia at intermediate temperatures (∼700°C). In this study an experimental work was conducted using an Open Flange SOFC test set-up with a planar anode-supported single cell consisting of a Ni/YSZ anode, YSZ electrolyte, and LSM cathod…
Life Cycle Assessment of a Battery Passenger Ferry
2017
Master's thesis Renewable Energy ENE500 - University of Agder 2017 Konfidensiell til / confidential until 01-07-2022
Proper sizing of energy storage for grid connected photovoltaic system
2014
Masteroppgave i fornybar energi ENE 500 Universitetet i Agder 2014 The requirement of an energy storage to a grid connected PV system, is highly desirable in cases like power outages. Another importance is to reduce the peak time electricity buying from the utility grid and discharging the battery stored energy to the load. This project investigates the optimum dimensioning of a battery energy storage in a grid connected Photovoltaic system, for the customers who purchase and sell the electricity to the utility grid. The aim was to provide an optimal method that helps electricity customers equipped with PV systems, in making decisions to install economically sized battery energy storage. Th…
Design and installation of a grid-connected PV system
2014
As the worlds electrical demand is being more covered by photovoltaic (PV) systems, Germanyinstalled 3.3 GW of the worlds PV systems in 2013 compared to 0.6 MW being installed inNorway. Irradiation measurements done for southern Norway indicates that the conditions formore PV systems being installed are good when comparing irradiation in Grimstad to Hamburg.This thesis addresses the initial steps of planning and building a PV system to analysing howthe inverter handles the varying irradiance in southern Norway.To investigate the opportunities in Grimstad, a Theia HE-t 3.8 string inverter from Eltek wasinstalled along with 23 de-rated PV modules to constitute a PV system of 2.116 kWp. The PV…
Analysis of Electrical Loads and Strategies for Increasing Self-Consumption with BIPV Case study : Skarpnes Zero-Energy House
2017
Master's thesis Renewable Energy ENE500 - University of Agder 2017 At Skarpnes village (Southern Norway), the houses as zero energy buildings (ZEB) are installed with Building Integrated Photovoltaic (BIPV) systems, and these houses are not containing smart control of equipments. The aim of such buildings is that the amount of electrical energy produced is the same as that consumed in the buildings on an annual basis. In this thesis, the main objective is to analyse the methods for increasing self -consumption in BIPV, by minimizing the cost of purchasing electricity from the grid at time with no PV production, and maximizing the utilization of solar PV generated power, which reduces the po…
Theoretical and experimental study of novel types of solid oxide fuel cell electrodes
2016
Master's thesis Renewable Energy ENE500 - University of Agder 2016 Solid oxide fuel cells (SOFCs) have the potential to become one of the efficient and costeffective system for direct conversion of a wide variety of fuels to electricity. The performance, stability and durability of SOFCs depend strongly on the materials used for the fabrication of electrodes as well as the fabrication process. For anode supported SOFCs, the tape casting method has been the de facto standard for constructing cell components. Furthermore, organic solvents such as ethanol, propanol, terpineol and poly-ethers are generally used in industrial tape casting as the solvent medium to make the chemical slurries out o…