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Using TRNSYS software, the proposed Parabolic Trough Collector (PTC)-based solar heating system paired with the boiler is modelled. Sensible thermal energy storage (TES) system is integrated into the refinery's process heating to handle the intermittent nature of solar energy.
Conclusion The present study investigates the feasibility of solar hybrid system to generate steam in the oil refinery to maintain the temperature of heavy crude oil products before despatching from storage tanks. Due to the intermittent behaviour of solar energy, the solar hybrid system is integrated with a sensible heat storage tank.
Most of the steam is to be used for the atmospheric distillation process, which is one of the most energy-intensive processes of a refinery. Furthermore, the exergy balance is shown in Fig. 12 c, which attests to an exergy efficiency of the plant of 55.5%. The energy efficiency determined from the energy balance is 82.4%.
Other studies in the literature considered coupling solar energy systems to oil refineries to decarbonize their operation. The applicability and feasibility of introducing a concentrated solar power (CSP) system to reduce partial reliance on process heaters of a crude oil refinery was studied by Danish et al. .
Therefore, around the production, transmission and consumption process of photovoltaic power generation, a Photovoltaics energy storage system (PVESS) containing photovoltaic power generation subsystem and energy storage subsystem, and energy utilization subsystem is formed.
Although hybrid PV energy storage systems have been studied and their optimization has been explored. However, with the goal of value co-creation of PVESS and reduction of abandoned photovoltaics, there are few researches on collaborative management and collaborative decision model construction.
Firstly, a value co-creation analysis framework for promoting capacity allocation of PVESS under the Energy Internet is analyzed. Secondly, the basic model of hybrid energy storage system (HESS) combining battery energy storage system (BESS) and superconducting magnetic energy storage system (SMES) is constructed.
The collaborative management of the subsystems is the key path to value co-creation of the PVESS. Energy storage technology can improve the stability of the electricity supply and is an important way to achieve the consumption of photovoltaic resources.
Literature first proposed the reconfigurable topology of the battery, in which the system reconfiguration could be achieved through five control switches per cell. In the series topology, each battery cell had only two controllable switches, which were used to connect other cells in series or bypass .
As increasement of the clean energy capacity, lithium-ion battery energy storage systems (BESS) play a crucial role in addressing the volatility of renewable energy sources. However, the efficient operation of these systems relies on optimized system topology, effective power allocation strategies, and accurate state of charge (SOC) estimation.
First, a new type of BS topology is proposed, which can greatly improve the reliability and economy of the system when single or multiple battery cells fail. Compared with the conventional topology, the maximum number of faulty battery cells that the new topology can bear and the economic gains will increase.
Assuming that there are four clusters of batteries in parallel, when the centralized PCS topology is adopted, BS is connected to the power grid through a PCS, and the system operating reliability is 0.9986.
