Python Software Package: Load Following Decision
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| Název: | Python Software Package: Load Following Decision |
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| Autoři: | Curl, Christopher R., orcid:0000-0001-8172- |
| Přispěvatelé: | Fronk, Brian M. |
| Informace o vydavateli: | Zenodo |
| Rok vydání: | 2023 |
| Sbírka: | Zenodo |
| Témata: | cogeneration, thermal storage, economic analysis, emissions analysis, multi-family, combined heat and power, energy modeling, residential |
| Popis: | In simple terms, this package answers the following question: if an apartment building owner replaces their conventional energy system with a small-scale (under 100 kWe) cogeneration (CHP) unit paired with a thermal energy storage (TES) system, what would the emissions, costs, savings, and payback period be? To answer that question, this software package needs the operating parameters of the proposed CHP system, the building's existing boiler, and the proposed TES system. Once the user has that information, they can enter it into the .yaml file located in the package's /input_yaml folder. The .yaml file also has keys for entering the electricity and natural gas rate schedules for the location being analyzed. This software package also needs the energy demand of the building in the form of a .csv file. The package assumes that the energy demand has been modeled in an open source energy modeling software called "EnergyPlus" and exported as a .csv file. You can find examples of such a file in the /input_demand_profiles folder. The data resolution is hourly and spans the length of one year for a total of 8760 data points for both the electrical demand of the building and the heating demand. The CHP system has three dispatch options: it can either operate so that the electricity produced by the system matches the electrical demand of the building (this is mode is called "electric load following", or ELF), operate so that the thermal energy produced by the system matches the building’s thermal demands (which is called "thermal load following", or TLF), or operate such that energy is contantly produced at full capacity (this mode is called "power purchase", or PP, since it maximizes electricity buyback revenue). This software package is intended to perform an emissions analysis and an economic analysis of all three operating modes to reveal which modes are most economically and environmentally favorable. Further details can be found in /docs/LFD_user_manual.pdf within the software package. |
| Druh dokumentu: | software |
| Jazyk: | English |
| Relation: | https://zenodo.org/records/8340099; oai:zenodo.org:8340099; https://doi.org/10.5281/zenodo.8340099 |
| DOI: | 10.5281/zenodo.8340099 |
| Dostupnost: | https://doi.org/10.5281/zenodo.8340099 https://zenodo.org/records/8340099 |
| Rights: | MIT License ; mit ; https://opensource.org/licenses/MIT |
| Přístupové číslo: | edsbas.985199F1 |
| Databáze: | BASE |
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