Publication Date:
2024-04-26
Description:
For the purpose of attaining the highest performance of energy supply systems, it is important to design the systems optimally in consideration of their operational strategies for seasonal and hourly variations in energy demands. An ap- proach to solve such an optimal design problem with a large number of periods efficiently is to derive an approximate optimal design solution by aggregating periods with a clustering method. However, such an approach does not provide any information on the accuracy for the optimal value of the objective function. The purpose of this paper is to provide a time aggregation method for deriving aprroximate optimal design solutions and evaluting their values of the objective function. Especially, a method of evaluating design solutions is presented here using both methods of evaluating the robustness under uncertain energy demands and solving optimal design problems by a hierarchical approach. A case study is conducted for a cogeneration system with a practical configuration, and it turns out that the proposed approach enables one to evaluate effective lower bounds for the optimal value of the objective function as compared with those obtained by a conventional approach.
Language:
Japanese
Type:
article
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