scholarly journals Guest editorial for the Special Issue on Degradation Prediction and Recycling of Renewable Energy and Energy Storage Systems: Scenarios of 2020-2025

Author(s):  
Liang Gao ◽  
Akhil Garg

Abstract Given the degrading environment, countries across the globe have strongly emphasized the development and deployment of renewable energy and energy storage systems across various sectors such as residential, commercial, industry, rural households, charging stations, etc. Given with this pace of deployment, there will be unforeseen problems in next decade on how to diagnose, perform online monitoring and regular maintenance and recycle these millions of these renewable energy and energy storage systems whose life span is over (spent systems). Main challenges that exist includes the heterogeneity of the systems (different standards, size and shape) adding complexity to recycling procedures, laboratory based models having assumptions for online prediction and monitoring, non-uniform reusability and recycling procedures. Due to this, the process adopted for recycling and reusability of the spent systems is mainly manual. There is a strong need for designing and developing the automation, Artificial intelligence (AI) and robust optimization procedures for making these recycling and reusability procedures smart and efficient

Energies ◽  
2020 ◽  
Vol 13 (2) ◽  
pp. 317 ◽  
Author(s):  
Jagdesh Kumar ◽  
Chethan Parthasarathy ◽  
Mikko Västi ◽  
Hannu Laaksonen ◽  
Miadreza Shafie-Khah ◽  
...  

The stringent emission rules set by international maritime organisation and European Directives force ships and harbours to constrain their environmental pollution within certain targets and enable them to employ renewable energy sources. To this end, harbour grids are shifting towards renewable energy sources to cope with the growing demand for an onshore power supply and battery-charging stations for modern ships. However, it is necessary to accurately size and locate battery energy storage systems for any operational harbour grid to compensate the fluctuating power supply from renewable energy sources as well as meet the predicted maximum load demand without expanding the power capacities of transmission lines. In this paper, the equivalent circuit battery model of nickel–cobalt–manganese-oxide chemistry has been utilised for the sizing of a lithium-ion battery energy storage system, considering all the parameters affecting its performance. A battery cell model has been developed in the Matlab/Simulink platform, and subsequently an algorithm has been developed for the design of an appropriate size of lithium-ion battery energy storage systems. The developed algorithm has been applied by considering real data of a harbour grid in the Åland Islands, and the simulation results validate that the sizes and locations of battery energy storage systems are accurate enough for the harbour grid in the Åland Islands to meet the predicted maximum load demand of multiple new electric ferry charging stations for the years 2022 and 2030. Moreover, integrating battery energy storage systems with renewables helps to increase the reliability and defer capital cost investments of upgrading the ratings of transmission lines and other electrical equipment in the Åland Islands grid.


2017 ◽  
Vol 68 (11) ◽  
pp. 2641-2645
Author(s):  
Alexandru Ciocan ◽  
Ovidiu Mihai Balan ◽  
Mihaela Ramona Buga ◽  
Tudor Prisecaru ◽  
Mohand Tazerout

The current paper presents an energy storage system that stores the excessive energy, provided by a hybrid system of renewable energy sources, in the form of compressed air and thermal heat. Using energy storage systems together with renewable energy sources represents a major challenge that could ensure the transition to a viable economic future and a decarbonized economy. Thermodynamic calculations are conducted to investigate the performance of such systems by using Matlab simulation tools. The results indicate the values of primary and global efficiencies for various operating scenarios for the energy storage systems which use compressed air as medium storage, and shows that these could be very effective systems, proving the possibility to supply to the final user three types of energy: electricity, heat and cold function of his needs.


Energies ◽  
2021 ◽  
Vol 14 (9) ◽  
pp. 2503
Author(s):  
Paulo Rotella Junior ◽  
Luiz Célio Souza Rocha ◽  
Sandra Naomi Morioka ◽  
Ivan Bolis ◽  
Gianfranco Chicco ◽  
...  

Sources such as solar and wind energy are intermittent, and this is seen as a barrier to their wide utilization. The increasing grid integration of intermittent renewable energy sources generation significantly changes the scenario of distribution grid operations. Such operational challenges are minimized by the incorporation of the energy storage system, which plays an important role in improving the stability and the reliability of the grid. This study provides the review of the state-of-the-art in the literature on the economic analysis of battery energy storage systems. The paper makes evident the growing interest of batteries as energy storage systems to improve techno-economic viability of renewable energy systems; provides a comprehensive overview of key methodological possibilities for researchers interested in economic analysis of battery energy storage systems; indicates the need to use adequate economic indicators for investment decisions; and identifies key research topics of the analyzed literature: (i) photovoltaic systems with battery energy storage systems for residential areas, (ii) comparison between energy storage technologies, (iii) power quality improvement. The last key contribution is the proposed research agenda.


2021 ◽  
Vol 103 (1) ◽  
pp. 393-405
Author(s):  
Amogh Amladi ◽  
Shalini Singh ◽  
Theo Woudstra ◽  
P.V. Aravind

2021 ◽  
Vol 6 ◽  
pp. 26-34
Author(s):  
Vladimir Poltavets ◽  
Irina Kolchanova

The continuous growth of renewable energy sources has drastically changed the paradigm of electric energy generation and distribution. Flywheel energy storage systems are a clean and efficient method to level supply and demand in energy grids, including those incorporating renewable energy generation. Environmental safety, resilience, high power capacity and quality make flywheel energy storage very promising. This paper contains a review of flywheel energy storage systems, already being in operation, and applications of flywheel energy storage in general.


2021 ◽  
Vol 4 (2) ◽  
pp. 135-138
Author(s):  
Vahid Vahidinasab ◽  
Charalampos (Haris) Patsios ◽  
Damian Giaouris ◽  
Phil Taylor

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