Smart Load Management with Energy Storage for Power Quality Enhancement in Wind-Powered Oil and Gas Applications

Erick Alves, Santiago Sanchez, Danilo Brandao and Elisabetta Tedeschi
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Erick Alves: Department of Electric Power Engineering, Norwegian University of Science and Technology (NTNU), 7034 Trondheim, Norway
Santiago Sanchez: Department of Electric Power Engineering, Norwegian University of Science and Technology (NTNU), 7034 Trondheim, Norway
Danilo Brandao: Graduate Program in Electrical Engineering, Universidade Federal de Minas Gerais (UFMG), Belo Horizonte 31270-901, Brazil
Elisabetta Tedeschi: Department of Electric Power Engineering, Norwegian University of Science and Technology (NTNU), 7034 Trondheim, Norway

Energies, 2019, vol. 12, issue 15, 1-15

Abstract: This paper investigates power quality issues in a wind-powered offshore oil and gas platform operating in island mode. Topics of interest are the negative effects that load and wind power variability have on the electrical system frequency and voltage; and how those influence the gas turbine operation. The authors discuss how smart load management together with energy storage can mitigate those effects, and propose a control algorithm for that. Simulations in MATLAB/Simulink demonstrate that the proposed energy storage controller reduces frequency and voltage variations in a case study. Moreover, the paper presents a methodology to derive a simplified model of the hybrid energy system that reduces simulation time in at least two orders of magnitude. The latter can be a useful tool for optimization algorithms evaluating a huge number of scenarios, especially those dealing with economical dispatch of generators or sizing of energy storage systems.

Keywords: smart grids; hybrid energy systems; energy management; load management; power quality; oil and gas platforms; energy storage (search for similar items in EconPapers)
JEL-codes: Q Q0 Q4 Q40 Q41 Q42 Q43 Q47 Q48 Q49 (search for similar items in EconPapers)
Date: 2019
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