Today resource adequacy is most often maintained by installing natural gas plants to meet the peak load. In California, the current risk of inadequate electricity supply is highest around sunset in late summer. In a zero-carbon grid, resource…
Hybrid energies interest many companies and countries. No form of electricity production is optimal in all situations. The wind and the sun are intermittent but do not consume fuel and do not emit greenhouse gases. Natural gas electricity production…
The optimization of the generation cost function allows for the minimization of cost subject to constraints. In this paper, the constraints are load, generation limits, and system inertia. It is assumed that battery storage and solar have no…
Hybrid power systems are technically suitable for providing continuous and quality power to remotely located dwellings and have the potential of reducing the greenhouse gases emissions. The present study aims at finding an optimal hybrid power system…
A cogeneration solar system for a building located in Sabzevar (Iran) is investigated in this study. In this system, a combination of a solar evacuated tube collector field and an auxiliary natural gas burner drive a single effect absorption chiller.…
Fuels that are environment-friendly resources play a vital role in the development of economies. Each fuel resource has intensive, however, inadequate specifications in terms of security, sustainability, capacity to compete with other sources.…
There is an increasing demand for clean water as the population of the earth is exponentially increasing. Many countries are facing water shortage problems, which are bound to become more prevalent in upcoming years. Therefore, it is necessary to…
Texas and the US energy sectors rank near the top of countries in the world in the production and consumption of the major energy sources (oil, gas, coal, and wind). Texas is also first among the states for refinery output and near the top producer…