Paper Info
Title
Real-time monitoring of energy infrastructure.
Abstract
Many legacy infrastructures are reaching the end of their service life. The necessary replacement of this infrastructure creates an opportunity to replace them with environmental and innovative systems. In this paper, a Smart Energy Micro Grid (SEMG) simulator is developed to model thermal energy alternatives for a large Canadian university. The simulator allows real-time resource management using hourly historical operational data. To meet the campus thermal requirements, SEMG system considers heat pumps, cogeneration powered by bio-fuels and excess to offset traditional natural gas fuel sources. All technologies take advantage of real-time management of electricity to reduce Green House Gas (GHG) emissions. Three modeling scenarios are constructed, showing that fuel costs can be reduced by 43%, GHG emissions reduced by 68% and overall energy consumption reduced by 29%. The simulator is a first step in integrating all critical infrastructures into a SEMG paradigm.
Year
DOI
Venue
2011
10.1109/CCECE.2011.6030718
CCECE
Keywords
Field
DocType
biofuel,cogeneration,distributed power generation,energy consumption,greenhouses,heat pumps,real-time systems,Canadian university,SEMG simulator,bio-fuels,campus thermal requirements,cogeneration,electricity,energy consumption,energy infrastructure,green house gas emission reduction,heat pumps,legacy infrastructures,real-time monitoring,real-time resource management,smart energy microgrid,thermal energy,Energy management,Energy resources,Modeling,Real time systems,Smart grids,Waste heat
Resource management,Energy management,Waste heat,Automotive engineering,Thermal energy,Smart grid,Electricity,Computer science,Control engineering,Cogeneration,Energy consumption,Environmental engineering
Conference
ISSN
Citations 
PageRank 
0840-7789
0
0.34
References 
Authors
1
3
Name
Order
Citations
PageRank
Cesar Lopez101.69
Paul Lusina201.01
José R. Martí3479.13