Role of LNG in an optimized hybrid energy network

Juliana Montoya Cardona, Jacques Dam, Marietta de Rooij

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    The future energy system could benefit from the integration of independent gas, heat and electricity infrastructures. Such a hybrid energy network could support the increase of intermittent renewable energy sources by offering increased operational flexibility. Nowadays, the expectations on Natural Gas resources forecast an increase in the application of Liquefied Natural Gas (LNG), as a means of storage and transportation, which has a high exergy value. Therefore, we analyzed the integration of decentralized LNG regasification with a Waste-to-Energy (W2E) plant for a practice-based case to get an idea on how it might affect the balancing of supply and demand, under optimized exergy efficient conditions. We compared an independent system with an integrated system that consists of the use of the LNG cold to cool the condenser of the W2E plant, as well as the expansion of the regasified LNG in an expander, using a simplified deterministic model based on the energy hub concept. We use the hourly measured electricity and heat demand patterns for 200 households with 35% of the households producing electricity from PV according to a typical measured solar insolation pattern in The Netherlands. The results indicate that the integration affects the imbalance for electricity and heat compared to the independent system. If the electricity demand is met, both the total yearly heat shortage and heat excess are reduced for the integrated system. If the heat demand is met, the total yearly electricity shortage is also reduced (with 100 MWh). However, the total yearly electricity excess is then increased (with 300 MWh). We observed that these changes are solely due to the increase in exergy efficiencies for heat and electricity of the W2E Rankine cycle. The efficiency of the expander is too low to offer a significant contribution to the electricity demand. Therefore, future research should focus on the affect that can be obtained by to other means of integration (e.g. Organic Rankine Cycle and Stirling Cycle).
    Original languageEnglish
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    Publication statusPublished - 18 Aug 2017
    Event6th International Youth Conference on Energy - Budapest, Hungary
    Duration: 21 Jun 201724 Jun 2017
    Conference number: 6
    http://www.iyce-conf.org/

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    Conference6th International Youth Conference on Energy
    Abbreviated titleIYCE2017
    Country/TerritoryHungary
    CityBudapest
    Period21/06/1724/06/17
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    Keywords

    • lng
    • renewable energy
    • hybrid networks
    • waste to energy

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