Integration of Clean and Sustainable Energy Resources and Storage in Multi-Generation Systems

Definition of multi-generation systems.-Economic and environmental benefits of renewable energy sources in combined cooling, heating, potable water, hydrogen, and power generation systems.- Selection of cost-effective and energy-efficient storages with respect to uncertain nature of renewable energy resources and variations of demands.- Solar powered combined cooling, heating, potable water, hydrogen, and power generation systems with Application of ice storage/molten salt/batteries/electric and hydrogen vehicles.- Utilization of geothermal heat reservoirs of abandoned oil and gas wells for seawater purification and heat cool/hydrogen/power generation taking into account thermal energy storage systems such as molten salt.- Application of hydro potential in seawater desalination, hydrogen and power generation facilities without and with application of pumped storage.- Bio-fueled poly-generation of heat, power and fresh water production system considering advanced adiabatic compressed air energy storage.- Information gap decision theory for risk-aversion and risk-seeker decision making processes in solar multi-generation systems.- Monte Carlo simulations for sizing ice cold thermal energy storage in solar powered trigeneration microgrids.- Point estimation method for modeling intermittency of solar irradiations in molten salt integrated solar poly-generation plants.- Fuzzy scenario based stochastic programming approach for making robust decision in operation of biomass fired multi-generation plants.- Game theory application for finding optimal operating point of multi-production system under fluctuations of renewables and various load levels.



 

Farkhondeh Jabari is a researcher and PhD student in Electrical Power Systems Engineering at the University of Tabriz in Tabriz, Iran.