Introducing a Novel Hybrid Mobile Energy Storage System for Vulnerable Community Resilience Support

Using state of the art, which is Solar trailer, a cost-effective and efficient way to provide microgrid power for reducing shortages of the vulnerable population is presented. In this paper, the optimal design for a portable solar trailer is discussed in detail. Indeed, the energy is stored in a solar trailer employing some solar photovoltaic (PV) modules as well as diesel generator which can then be exploited to supply the required power in Battery energy storage (BES) to be used in providing medicines refrigeration, water treatment, and connecting to the web network. Employing HOMER software, the optimum system has been achieved and designed. Once the optimized system obtained in HOMER the interested solar trailer was designed in CATIA and prepared for production, based optimization results. It is worth mentioning that this optimum system is based on climatic conditions as well as the basic needs of the vulnerable community. The final proposed solar trailer in this paper incorporates one refrigerator, a water treatment device, eight solar panels of 400 W type, 12 batteries, a 4-kW generator.