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Optimal Short-Term Scheduling of Photovoltaic Powered Multi-chiller Plants in the Presence of Demand Response Programs

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As we know, total cooling demand directly depends on solar irradiations in a way that when solar irradiance increases, the value of building cooling demand in different residential, commercial, and industrial sectors will be increased. Hence, use of solar energy for supplying total electricity requirement of chillers will be a cost-effective way in comparison with other energy resources. If solar photovoltaic panels are employed to produce electricity for driving chiller equipment, higher coefficient of performance for chillers will be attained and lower electricity cost will be paid while increasing the amount of cooling demand. In this chapter, short-term optimal scheduling of solar powered multi-chiller plants is presented. Moreover, real time demand response programs are introduced as a cooling-demand side management strategy in reducing total electricity consumptions of compression chillers by shifting a part of cooling load from on-peak hours to off-peak periods.

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    Farkhondeh Jabari & Behnam Mohammadi-Ivatloo

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α i , β i , γ i , ζ i :

Coefficients related to the operating characteristic of chiller i

η :

Conversion coefficient of a photovoltaic panel

Φ t :

Solar irradiance

CL t :

Cooling demand after implementation of DRPs at time horizon t

\( {\mathrm{CL}}_t^0 \) :

Initial demand which participates in time-of-use DRPs

N :

Number of chillers

N pv :

Number of photovoltaic panels

\( {P}_t^{\mathrm{ch}} \) :

Total electrical power consumed by all centrifugal chillers at time t

\( {P}_t^{\mathrm{pv}} \) :

Power output of a photovoltaic panel

\( {P}_t^{\mathrm{grid}} \) :

Purchased electrical power from upstream grid

\( {\mathrm{PLR}}_i^t \) :

Partial load ratio (PLR) of chiller i at time horizon t

RT i :

Capacity of chiller i

S :

Array area of a photovoltaic module

\( {U}_i^t \) :

A binary decision variable that will be equal to 1, if ith chiller is on; otherwise it will be 0

\( {T}_t^a \) :

Ambient temperature at time t

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Jabari, F., Mohammadi-Ivatloo, B. (2018). Optimal Short-Term Scheduling of Photovoltaic Powered Multi-chiller Plants in the Presence of Demand Response Programs. In: Mohammadi-Ivatloo, B., Jabari, F. (eds) Operation, Planning, and Analysis of Energy Storage Systems in Smart Energy Hubs. Springer, Cham. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-319-75097-2_5

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