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This paper discusses the problem of powering a remote rural mobile base station using a standalone hybrid renewable energy system. A wind turbine and photovoltaic system ...Show MoreMetadata
Abstract:
This paper discusses the problem of powering a remote rural mobile base station using a standalone hybrid renewable energy system. A wind turbine and photovoltaic system are employed as the complementary power generation technologies, while the diesel generator serves as a backup power supply. A battery is required to reduce the impact of intermittency of renewable sources. On the consumption side, along with telecommunication electronic equipment, the consumption of cooling devices as a result of the ambient temperature, is also taken into account. The behavior of the base station in electrical and thermal terms is tested using the sequential Monte Carlo simulation. Adequate models have been used to generate wind, irradiance, and temperature input series, using the monthly averages for calibration, as the statistic information that is widely available in meteorological atlases, even for remote rural locations. The developed software provides all the variables of interest either in the form of chronological diagrams or probability histograms. The simulation platform can also be incorporated as a module of an algorithm for selection of optimal capacity of the generating system elements and for the optimal control of the cooling devices.
Published in: 2020 International Conference on Probabilistic Methods Applied to Power Systems (PMAPS)
Date of Conference: 18-21 August 2020
Date Added to IEEE Xplore: 01 September 2020
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