Pandapipes: An Open-Source Piping Grid Calculation Package for Multi-Energy Grid Simulations

Daniel Lohmeier, Dennis Cronbach, Simon Ruben Drauz, Martin Braun and Tanja Manuela Kneiske
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Daniel Lohmeier: Department of Grid Planning and Grid Operation, Fraunhofer Institute for Energy Economics and Energy System Technology IEE, 34119 Kassel, Germany
Dennis Cronbach: Department of Grid Planning and Grid Operation, Fraunhofer Institute for Energy Economics and Energy System Technology IEE, 34119 Kassel, Germany
Simon Ruben Drauz: Department of Grid Planning and Grid Operation, Fraunhofer Institute for Energy Economics and Energy System Technology IEE, 34119 Kassel, Germany
Martin Braun: Department of Grid Planning and Grid Operation, Fraunhofer Institute for Energy Economics and Energy System Technology IEE, 34119 Kassel, Germany
Tanja Manuela Kneiske: Department of Grid Planning and Grid Operation, Fraunhofer Institute for Energy Economics and Energy System Technology IEE, 34119 Kassel, Germany

Sustainability, 2020, vol. 12, issue 23, 1-39

Abstract: The increasing complexity of the design and operation evaluation process of multi-energy grids (MEGs) requires tools for the coupled simulation of power, gas and district heating grids. In this work, we analyze a number of applicable tools and find that most of them do not allow coupling of infrastructures, oversimplify the grid model or are based on inaccessible source code. We introduce the open source piping grid simulation tool pandapipes that—in interaction with pandapower—addresses three crucial criteria: clear data structure, adaptable MEG model setup and performance. In an introduction to pandapipes, we illustrate how it fulfills these criteria through its internal structure and demonstrate how it performs in comparison to STANET ® . Then, we show two case studies that have been performed with pandapipes already. The first case study demonstrates a peak shaving strategy as an interaction of a local electricity and district heating grid in a small neighborhood. The second case study analyzes the potential of a power-to-gas device to provide flexibility in a power grid while considering gas grid constraints. These cases show the importance of performing coupled simulations for the design and analysis of future energy infrastructures, as well as why the software should fulfill the three criteria.

Keywords: sector coupling; gas grid; district heating grid; grid simulation; network analysis; grid operation; open source; multi-energy grids; multi-vector model; hydrogen infrastructure (search for similar items in EconPapers)
JEL-codes: O13 Q Q0 Q2 Q3 Q5 Q56 (search for similar items in EconPapers)
Date: 2020
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