Feasibility Study of Renewable Energy Generation Opportunities for a Dairy Farm
The current study investigated the feasibility of renewable energy harvesting to meet the energy need of a dairy farm in Shahroud, Iran. Therefore, considering the available renewable resources including solar, wind, and biomass in the site and the electrical demand of the farm, the techno-economic...
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| author | Ashkan Gholami Aryan Tajik Shahab Eslami Majid Zandi |
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| description | The current study investigated the feasibility of renewable energy harvesting to meet the energy need of a dairy farm in Shahroud, Iran. Therefore, considering the available renewable resources including solar, wind, and biomass in the site and the electrical demand of the farm, the techno-economic and environmental analyses were carried out. By using Homer software, the optimized system was selected. It was shown that although there was wind potential within the farm site, the most economical system would be a system consisting of a 100 kW biomass power plant and a 169 kW PV plant. Furthermore, by using RETScreen software, the economic and environmental analyses for the selected system were carried out. The simple and equity paybacks were 5.8 and 4.2 years for the proposed system, which confirmed the economic feasibility of the proposed system. Moreover, the gross annual GHG emission would be reduced by 91.5 %. The techno-economic and environmental analyses conducted in the current paper confirmed that the proposed system could be easily extended for other dairy farms, which resulted in a significant increase in the energy ratio of the dairy farms. |
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| spelling | doaj.art-a76d2ac062c64f779a7ed41c151da8072023-07-01T09:08:03ZengMaterials and Energy Research Center (MERC)Journal of Renewable Energy and Environment2423-55472423-74692019-04-016281410.30501/jree.2019.9594395943Feasibility Study of Renewable Energy Generation Opportunities for a Dairy FarmAshkan Gholami0Aryan Tajik1Shahab Eslami2Majid Zandi3Department of Animal Science, Faculty of Agricultural Sciences and Engineering, University of Tehran, Tehran, Iran.Faculty of Mechanical and Energy Engineering, Shahid Beheshti University, Tehran, Iran.Department of Renewable Energy and Environmental Engineering, Faculty of New Sciences and Technologies, University of Tehran, Tehran, Iran.Faculty of Mechanical and Energy Engineering, Shahid Beheshti University, Tehran, Iran.The current study investigated the feasibility of renewable energy harvesting to meet the energy need of a dairy farm in Shahroud, Iran. Therefore, considering the available renewable resources including solar, wind, and biomass in the site and the electrical demand of the farm, the techno-economic and environmental analyses were carried out. By using Homer software, the optimized system was selected. It was shown that although there was wind potential within the farm site, the most economical system would be a system consisting of a 100 kW biomass power plant and a 169 kW PV plant. Furthermore, by using RETScreen software, the economic and environmental analyses for the selected system were carried out. The simple and equity paybacks were 5.8 and 4.2 years for the proposed system, which confirmed the economic feasibility of the proposed system. Moreover, the gross annual GHG emission would be reduced by 91.5 %. The techno-economic and environmental analyses conducted in the current paper confirmed that the proposed system could be easily extended for other dairy farms, which resulted in a significant increase in the energy ratio of the dairy farms.https://www.jree.ir/article_95943_9c399085888a0c4b5d2e368f9373647e.pdfoptimizationrenewable energyhomerretscreenbiomass |
| spellingShingle | Ashkan Gholami Aryan Tajik Shahab Eslami Majid Zandi Feasibility Study of Renewable Energy Generation Opportunities for a Dairy Farm Journal of Renewable Energy and Environment optimization renewable energy homer retscreen biomass |
| title | Feasibility Study of Renewable Energy Generation Opportunities for a Dairy Farm |
| title_full | Feasibility Study of Renewable Energy Generation Opportunities for a Dairy Farm |
| title_fullStr | Feasibility Study of Renewable Energy Generation Opportunities for a Dairy Farm |
| title_full_unstemmed | Feasibility Study of Renewable Energy Generation Opportunities for a Dairy Farm |
| title_short | Feasibility Study of Renewable Energy Generation Opportunities for a Dairy Farm |
| title_sort | feasibility study of renewable energy generation opportunities for a dairy farm |
| topic | optimization renewable energy homer retscreen biomass |
| url | https://www.jree.ir/article_95943_9c399085888a0c4b5d2e368f9373647e.pdf |
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