Paper Info
Title
Collaborative energy conservation in a microgrid
Abstract
KBFSC (Kuala Belalong Field Studies Centre) is a research centre located in a remote tropical evergreen rainforest in Brunei Darussalam in South East Asia. It is visited by biologists and ecologists from all over the world. Power is available at the centre for 8-10 hours per day from a diesel generator (DG). The diesel travels2-3 hours by road, by boat and on foot over harsh terrain to reach the centre from the closest gas station. This paper describes the software and hardware of a microgrid system that was designed and deployed at KBFSC to reduce the fuel consumption while improving duration of power availability. A key feature of the energy management software is a collaborative scheduler interface that provides visitors at the centre the choice of scheduling appliance usage. The system optimises generator active hours using a customised DG Optimiser technique, to ensure minimum diesel consumption. Simulations extrapolating from empirical data suggest that our system could reduce diesel consumption by a third, and total cost by 20%, while making power available 24 hours a day. In addition, a user study with 8 visitors and 4 administrators showed that the collaborative scheduler interface is effective and usable.
Year
DOI
Venue
2014
10.1145/2674061.2674079
BuildSys@SenSys
Keywords
Field
DocType
microgrid,design,scheduling,experimentation,special-purpose and application-based systems,dynamic programming,performance
Diesel fuel,Energy conservation,Scheduling (computing),Transport engineering,Real-time computing,Energy management software,Fuel efficiency,Engineering,Diesel generator,Total cost,Microgrid
Conference
Citations 
PageRank 
References 
0
0.34
3
Authors
8
Name
Order
Citations
PageRank
Mohit Jain110616.16
Harshad Khadilkar2309.77
Neha Sengupta300.34
Zainul Charbiwala415012.93
Kushan U. Tennakoon500.34
Rodzay bin Haji Abdul Wahab600.34
Liyanage Chandratilake De Silva700.34
Deva P. Seetharam818320.37