Day-Ahead Optimal Economic Dispatching of Integrated Port Energy Systems Considering Hydrogen

Ports are major energy consumers and carbon emission producers. Developing integrated port energy systems (IPES) is the key to solve this problem. The energy forms in an IPES include electricity, hydrogen, heat and natural gas. Hydrogen can be generated from surplus renewable energies via water electrolysis, and thus power the previously oil-fueled equipment. Meanwhile, the remaining hydrogen can be converted to natural gas by the methanation reaction. By using fuel cells, gas turbine, hydrogen boiler and gas boiler, hydrogen and natural gas can supply the electrical and heat loads in the port area, forming a closed-loop of energy flow. Based on the above energy coupling structure, a day-ahead optimal economic dispatching model for IPES is established. The model takes the energy conversion loss and carbon dioxide emissions into account. The second-order conic relaxation is used to deal with the nonlinear part of power flow calculation. The linearization model for connecting heat source and heat load is built. Numerical results demonstrate that the proposed economic dispatching model effectively reduces the total energy cost and carbon dioxide emissions of IPES.