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Ziel des LiBaLu-Teilprojekts Modellierung und Simulation war die Unterstützung der Elektroden- und Zellentwicklung mit Hilfe umfangreicher Computersimulationen im Sinne des computergestützten Engineering (CAE). Zwei verschiedene Schwerpunkte standen im Mittelpunkt der Untersuchungen. Zum einen wurde das mechanistische Verständnis der komplexen Elektrochemie in Lithium-Luftbatterien durch mikrokinetische Modelle aufgeklärt. Auf Basis von postulierten Mehrschrittmechanismen wurden makroskopische Eigenschaften (Entlade-/Ladekennlinien, Zyklovoltammogramme) vorhergesagt und mit experimentellen Daten der Projektpartner verglichen. Zum anderen wurde das Design der Prototypzelle mit Hilfe numerischer Simulationen untersucht und optimiert. So konnten z. B. optimale Schichtdicken oder die Rolle von Gastransportlimitierungen identifiziert werden.
Ziel des Projekts STABIL war die Vorhersage der Alterung und Verbesserung der Lebensdauer von mobilen und stationären Lithium-Ionen-Batterien. Batterien sind zentrale Komponenten der Elektromobilität und der stationären Speicherung von regenerativem Strom. Die im Stand der Technik unzureichende Lebensdauer der Batterie ist heute wesentlicher Kostentreiber. Im Projekt wurde daher in einem skalenübergreifenden und interdisziplinären Ansatz das Verhalten von einzelnen Batteriezellen und ganzen Batteriesystemen unter zwei unterschiedlichen systemischen Randbedingungen untersucht.
The twin concept is increasingly used for optimization tasks in the context of Industry 4.0 and digitization. The twin concept can also help small and medium-sized enterprises (SME) to exploit their energy flexibility potential and to achieve added value by appropriate energy marketing. At the same time, this use of flexibility helps to realize a climate-neutral energy supply with high shares of renewable energies. The digital twin reflects real production, power flows and market influences as a computer model, which makes it possible to simulate and optimize on-site interventions and interactions with the energy market without disturbing the real production processes. This paper describes the development of a generic model library that maps flexibility-relevant components and processes of SME, thus simplifying the creation of a digital twin. The paper also includes the development of an experimental twin consisting of SME hardware components and a PLC-based SCADA system. The experimental twin provides a laboratory environment in which the digital twin can be tested, further developed and demonstrated on a laboratory scale. Concrete implementations of such a digital twin and experimental twin are described as examples.
Grey-box modelling combines physical and data-driven models to benefit from their respective advantages. Neural ordinary differential equations (NODEs) offer new possibilities for grey-box modelling, as differential equations given by physical laws and neural networks can be combined in a single modelling framework. This simplifies the simulation and optimization and allows to consider irregularly-sampled data during training and evaluation of the model. We demonstrate this approach using two levels of model complexity; first, a simple parallel resistor-capacitor circuit; and second, an equivalent circuit model of a lithium-ion battery cell, where the change of the voltage drop over the resistor-capacitor circuit including its dependence on current and State-of-Charge is implemented as NODE. After training, both models show good agreement with analytical solutions respectively with experimental data.
Active participation of industrial enterprises in electricity markets - a generic modeling approach
(2021)
Industrial enterprises represent a significant portion of electricity consumers with the potential of providing demand-side energy flexibility from their production processes and on-site energy assets. Methods are needed for the active and profitable participation of such enterprises in the electricity markets especially with variable prices, where the energy flexibility available in their manufacturing, utility and energy systems can be assessed and quantified. This paper presents a generic model library equipped with optimal control for energy flexibility purposes. The components in the model library represent the different technical units of an industrial enterprise on material, media, and energy flow levels with their process constraints. The paper also presents a case study simulation of a steel-powder manufacturing plant using the model library. Its energy flexibility was assessed when the plant procured its electrical energy at fixed and variable electricity prices. In the simulated case study, flexibility use at dynamic prices resulted in a 6% cost reduction compared to a fixed-price scenario, with battery storage and the manufacturing system making the largest contributions to flexibility.
The increasing number of prosumers and the accompanying greater use of decentralised energy resources (DERs) bring new opportunities and challenges for the traditional electricity systems and the electricity markets. Microgrids, virtual power plants (VPPs), peer-to-peer (P2P) trading and federated power plants (FPPs) propose different schemes for prosumer coordination and have the potential of becoming the new paradigm of electricity market and power system operation. This paper proposes a P2P trading scheme for energy communities that negotiates power flows between participating prosumers with insufficient renewable power supply and prosumers with surplus supply in such a way that the community welfare is maximized while avoiding critical grid conditions. For this purpose, the proposed scheme is based on an Optimal Power Flow (OPF) problem with a Multi-Bilateral Economic Dispatch (MBED) formulation as an objective function. The solution is realized in a fully decentralized manner on the basis of the Relaxed Consensus + Innovations (RCI) algorithm. Network security is ensured by a tariff-based system organized by a network agent that makes use of product differentiation capabilities of the RCI algorithm. It is found that the proposed mechanism accurately finds and prevents hazardous network operations, such as over-voltage in grid buses, while successfully providing economic value to prosumers’ renewable generation within the scope of a P2P, free market.
This paper shows the results of an in-depth techno-economic analysis of the public transport sector in a small to midsize city and its surrounding area. Public battery-electric and hydrogen fuel cell buses are comparatively evaluated by means of a total cost of ownership (TCO) model building on historical data and a projection of market prices. Additionally, a structural analysis of the public transport system of a specific city is performed, assessing best fitting bus lines for the use of electric or hydrogen busses, which is supported by a brief acceptance evaluation of the local citizens. The TCO results for electric buses show a strong cost decrease until the year 2030, reaching 23.5% lower TCOs compared to the conventional diesel bus. The optimal electric bus charging system will be the opportunity (pantograph) charging infrastructure. However, the opportunity charging method is applicable under the assumption that several buses share the same station and there is a “hotspot” where as many as possible bus lines converge. In the case of electric buses for the year 2020, the parameter which influenced the most on the TCO was the battery cost, opposite to the year 2030 in where the bus body cost and fuel cost parameters are the ones that dominate the TCO, due to the learning rate of the batteries. For H2 buses, finding a hotspot is not crucial because they have a similar range to the diesel ones as well as a similar refueling time. H2 buses until 2030 still have 15.4% higher TCO than the diesel bus system. Considering the benefits of a hypothetical scaling-up effect of hydrogen infrastructures in the region, the hydrogen cost could drop to 5 €/kg. In this case, the overall TCO of the hydrogen solution would drop to a slightly lower TCO than the diesel solution in 2030. Therefore, hydrogen buses can be competitive in small to midsize cities, even with limited routes. For hydrogen buses, the bus body and fuel cost make up a large part of the TCO. Reducing the fuel cost will be an important aspect to reduce the total TCO of the hydrogen bus.
With the increasing share of renewable energies and the nuclear phase-out, the energy transition is accelerating. From the perspective of building technology, there is great potential to support this transition given its large share in total energy consumption and the increasing number of flexible and controllable components and storages. However, a question often asked at the plant level is: "How do we use this flexibility to support the regional grid?". In this work, a grid-supportive controller of a real-world building energy plant was developed using mathematical optimisation methods and its technical feasibility was demonstrated. The results could convince actors from the energy industry and academia about the practicality of these methods and offer tools for their implementation.
This work presents the results of experimental operation of a solar-driven climate system using mixed-integer nonlinear model predictive control (MPC). The system is installed in a university building and consists of two solar thermal collector fields, an adsorption cooling machine with different operation modes, a stratified hot water storage with multiple inlets and outlets as well as a cold water storage. The system and the applied modeling approach is described and a parallelized algorithm for mixed-integer nonlinear MPC and a corresponding implementation for the system are presented. Finally, we show and discuss the results of experimental operation of the system and highlight the advantages of the mixed-integer nonlinear MPC application.
Bifaziale Photovoltaikmodule werden durch ihre höhere Leistung, bezogen auf den Flächenbedarf immer attraktiver. Die meisten der bislang hergestellten Photovoltaik Module sind Monofazial ausgeführtund schöpfen damit nicht ihr vollständiges Potential aus. Weiterhin bestehen die konventionell hergestelltenPhotovoltaik(PV) Module aus einem Verbund aus Glas und Kunststoff sowie verschiedenen Metallen, was die Entsorgung oder ein Recycling kostenaufwendig und kompliziert gestaltet. Die Firma Apollon greift diese Punkte auf und versucht, beides in dem NICE-Modul(Siehe Anhang 12.1)zu vereinen,nämlich ein bifaziales Modul, bei dem die PV-Zellen zwischen zwei Glasplatten, anstelle von zwei Kunststoffen eingespannt werden. Die Hochschule Offenburg ist F&E-Partner der Firma Apollon und betreibt ein kleines Labor zur Herstellung von NICE-Modulen. Zu Testzwecken werden diese der Witterung ausgesetzt und so der Energieertrag,sowie deren Lebensdauer unter geltenden Witterungsbedingungen ermittelt. In der Masterarbeit von Benjamin Smith[1]stellte sich heraus, dass sich bei den Modulen nach weniger als zwei Wochen im Freien die Klebefläche zwischen den Glasplatten löste. Somit fielen die Module beim Witterungstest unter realen Bedingungen durch.Im Anschluss an die Arbeit von Benjamin Smith besteht diese Arbeit darin,einen Außenteststand zu konzipieren und aufzubauen, um das in Zwischenzeit neu entworfene Klebe-konzept, welches einem TC 50 Test standhielt, auf die Lebensdauer im Freien und das PV Modul selbst auf den elektrischen Ertrag zu untersuchen. Für den elektrischen Ertrag werden Strom-und Spannungsverlauf aufgezeichnet. Außerdem musste für eine Charakterisierung der Module die Bestrahlungsstärke,der Temperaturverlauf, sowie die Inho-mogenität der Bestrahlungsstärke auf der Rückseite und die Windgeschwindigkeit ermittelt werden. Um eine Alterung des Modulwechselrichters auszuschließen, werden speziell dafür die Wechselspannung und Leistung auf der Ausgangsseite des Modulwechselrichters aufgezeichnet. Sämtliche modulrelevanten Messwerte werden im 3-5 s Intervall abgespeichert und sind auf einem Webserver sowie für eine spätere Datenanalyse als .csv Datei abrufbar. Somit eignet sich die Messeinrichtung lediglich für eine Bilanzierung,nicht aber für eine Leistungsmessung.
Für den Außenteststand musste eine Unterkonstruktion, geeignet für bifaziale Module entworfen und aufgebaut werden. Die Konstruktion ist vollständig aufgebaut. Das Messsystem wurde auf deren Funktion erfolgreich geprüft und steht bis auf die Strahlungsinhomogenitätsmessung im Technikum am Campus Nord der Hochschule Offenburg bereit zur Inbetriebnahme.