Optimization of food-energy-water infrastructure in remote microgrids
Abstract/Contents
- Abstract
- Over a billion people in the world lack access to clean, reliable, and affordable electricity. Microgrids with renewable energy, or renewable microgrids, can reduce operating costs by decreasing dependence on diesel fuel and its expensive supply lines, and by reducing air pollution health damage and its associated costs. However, high penetrations of renewable energy, if not integrated properly, can affect microgrid stability. The goal of this dissertation is to inform remote communities that are food-energy-water (FEW) insecure how to optimally integrate FEW infrastructures with renewable energy. A new modeling framework is developed to optimize energy supply and demand in three remote microgrids in the Arctic and sub-Artic. Findings demonstrate that demand-side management (DSM) of FEW infrastructures can decrease dependence on battery energy storage, improve utilization of intermittent renewables in remote microgrids, and reduce diesel fuel consumption. Modeling and site validation in the sub-Arctic have demonstrated potential diesel fuel savings of up to 55% while operating at 100% renewable energy for several days at a time.
Description
| Type of resource | text |
|---|---|
| Form | electronic resource; remote; computer; online resource |
| Extent | 1 online resource. |
| Place | California |
| Place | [Stanford, California] |
| Publisher | [Stanford University] |
| Copyright date | 2022; ©2022 |
| Publication date | 2022; 2022 |
| Issuance | monographic |
| Language | English |
Creators/Contributors
| Author | Sambor, Daniel Joseph |
|---|---|
| Degree supervisor | Jacobson, Mark Z. (Mark Zachary) |
| Thesis advisor | Jacobson, Mark Z. (Mark Zachary) |
| Thesis advisor | Jain, Rishee |
| Thesis advisor | Wies, Richard |
| Degree committee member | Jain, Rishee |
| Degree committee member | Wies, Richard |
| Associated with | Stanford University, Civil & Environmental Engineering Department |
Subjects
| Genre | Theses |
|---|---|
| Genre | Text |
Bibliographic information
| Statement of responsibility | Daniel Joseph Sambor. |
|---|---|
| Note | Submitted to the Civil & Environmental Engineering Department. |
| Thesis | Thesis Ph.D. Stanford University 2022. |
| Location | https://purl.stanford.edu/wc969jr0091 |
Access conditions
- Copyright
- © 2022 by Daniel Joseph Sambor
- License
- This work is licensed under a Creative Commons Attribution Non Commercial 3.0 Unported license (CC BY-NC).
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