Khan, Zafar A., Imran, Muhammad, Altamimi, Abdullah, Diemuodeke, Ogheneruona E. and Abdelatif, Amged Osman (2021). Assessment of Wind and Solar Hybrid Energy for Agricultural Applications in Sudan. Energies, 15 (1),
Abstract
In addition to zero-carbon generation, the plummeting cost of renewable energy sources (RES) is enabling the increased use of distributed-generation sources. Although the RES appear to be a cheaper source of energy, without the appropriate design of the RES with a true understanding of the nature of the load, they can be an unreliable and expensive source of energy. Limited research has been aimed at designing small-scale hybrid energy systems for irrigation pumping systems, and these studies did not quantify the water requirement, or in turn the energy required to supply the irrigation water. This paper provides a comprehensive feasibility analysis of an off-grid hybrid renewable energy system for the design of a water-pumping system for irrigation applications in Sudan. A systematic and holistic framework combined with a techno-economic optimization analysis for the planning and design of hybrid renewable energy systems for small-scale irrigation water-pumping systems is presented. Different hybridization cases of solar photovoltaic, wind turbine and battery storage at 12 different sites in Sudan are simulated, evaluated, and compared, considering the crop water requirement for different crops, the borehole depth, and the stochasticity of renewable energy resources. Soil, weather, and climatic data from 12 different sites in Sudan were used for the case studies, with the key aim to find the most robust and reliable solution with the lowest system cost. The results of the case studies suggest that the selection of the system is highly dependent on the cost, the volatility of the wind speed, solar radiation, and the size of the system; at present, hybridization is not the primary option at most of sites, with the exception of two. However, with the reduction in price of wind technology, the possibility of hybrid generation will rise.
Publication DOI: | https://doi.org/10.3390/en15010005 |
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Divisions: | College of Engineering & Physical Sciences > School of Engineering and Technology > Mechanical, Biomedical & Design College of Engineering & Physical Sciences |
Additional Information: | © 2021 by the authors. Licensee MDPI, Basel, Switzerland. This article is an open access article distributed under the terms and conditions of the Creative Commons Attribution (CC BY) license (https:// creativecommons.org/licenses/by/ 4.0/) |
Uncontrolled Keywords: | HOMER Pro®,Hybrid renewable energy,Net present cost,Techno-economic optimization,Renewable Energy, Sustainability and the Environment,Fuel Technology,Energy Engineering and Power Technology,Energy (miscellaneous),Control and Optimization,Electrical and Electronic Engineering |
Publication ISSN: | 1996-1073 |
Last Modified: | 16 Dec 2024 17:22 |
Date Deposited: | 04 Jan 2022 14:11 |
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Published Date: | 2021-12-21 |
Accepted Date: | 2021-12-17 |
Authors: |
Khan, Zafar A.
Imran, Muhammad ( 0000-0002-3057-1301) Altamimi, Abdullah Diemuodeke, Ogheneruona E. Abdelatif, Amged Osman |