Biomethane Microturbines as a Storage-Free Dispatchable Solution for Resilient Critical Buildings
Climate-change-related events are increasing the costs of power outages, including losses of product, revenue, and productivity. Given the increase in meteorological disasters in recent years related to climate change effects, the number of costly blackouts, from an economic perspective, has increas...
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| author | Enrique Rosales-Asensio Iker de Loma-Osorio Emin Açıkkalp David Borge-Diez |
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| description | Climate-change-related events are increasing the costs of power outages, including losses of product, revenue, and productivity. Given the increase in meteorological disasters in recent years related to climate change effects, the number of costly blackouts, from an economic perspective, has increased in a directly proportional manner. As a result, there is increasing interest in the use of alternators to supply dependable, instantaneous, and uninterruptible electricity. Traditional research has focused on the installation of diesel backup systems to ensure power requirements without deeply considering the resilience capabilities of systems, which is the ability of a system to recover or survive adversity, such as a power outage. This research presents a novel approach focusing on the resiliency impact of backup systems’ storage-free dispatchable solutions on buildings and compares the advantages and disadvantages of biomethane microturbines, natural gas engines, and diesel engines backup systems, discussing the revenue resulting from the resilience provided by emergency generators. The results show that, for several diesel fuel and natural gas safety assumptions, natural gas alternators have a lower probability of failure at the time of a blackout than diesel generators, and therefore, resilience increases. |
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| spelling | doaj.art-abf6ebede8f04d7eb2e37d2c09ad78ae2023-11-19T15:55:28ZengMDPI AGBuildings2075-53092023-10-011310251610.3390/buildings13102516Biomethane Microturbines as a Storage-Free Dispatchable Solution for Resilient Critical BuildingsEnrique Rosales-Asensio0Iker de Loma-Osorio1Emin Açıkkalp2David Borge-Diez3Department of Electrical Engineering, University of Las Palmas de Gran Canaria, Campus de Tafira S/n, 35017 Las Palmas de Gran Canaria, SpainDepartment of Electrical, Systems and Automation Engineering, University of León, Campus de Vegazana S/n, 24071 León, SpainDepartment of Mechanical Engineering, Engineering Faculty, Eskisehir Technical University, 26470 Eskisehir, TurkeyDepartment of Electrical, Systems and Automation Engineering, University of León, Campus de Vegazana S/n, 24071 León, SpainClimate-change-related events are increasing the costs of power outages, including losses of product, revenue, and productivity. Given the increase in meteorological disasters in recent years related to climate change effects, the number of costly blackouts, from an economic perspective, has increased in a directly proportional manner. As a result, there is increasing interest in the use of alternators to supply dependable, instantaneous, and uninterruptible electricity. Traditional research has focused on the installation of diesel backup systems to ensure power requirements without deeply considering the resilience capabilities of systems, which is the ability of a system to recover or survive adversity, such as a power outage. This research presents a novel approach focusing on the resiliency impact of backup systems’ storage-free dispatchable solutions on buildings and compares the advantages and disadvantages of biomethane microturbines, natural gas engines, and diesel engines backup systems, discussing the revenue resulting from the resilience provided by emergency generators. The results show that, for several diesel fuel and natural gas safety assumptions, natural gas alternators have a lower probability of failure at the time of a blackout than diesel generators, and therefore, resilience increases.https://www.mdpi.com/2075-5309/13/10/2516energy resiliencebackup generatorsbiomethane microturbineseconomic analysisresiliency analysis |
| spellingShingle | Enrique Rosales-Asensio Iker de Loma-Osorio Emin Açıkkalp David Borge-Diez Biomethane Microturbines as a Storage-Free Dispatchable Solution for Resilient Critical Buildings Buildings energy resilience backup generators biomethane microturbines economic analysis resiliency analysis |
| title | Biomethane Microturbines as a Storage-Free Dispatchable Solution for Resilient Critical Buildings |
| title_full | Biomethane Microturbines as a Storage-Free Dispatchable Solution for Resilient Critical Buildings |
| title_fullStr | Biomethane Microturbines as a Storage-Free Dispatchable Solution for Resilient Critical Buildings |
| title_full_unstemmed | Biomethane Microturbines as a Storage-Free Dispatchable Solution for Resilient Critical Buildings |
| title_short | Biomethane Microturbines as a Storage-Free Dispatchable Solution for Resilient Critical Buildings |
| title_sort | biomethane microturbines as a storage free dispatchable solution for resilient critical buildings |
| topic | energy resilience backup generators biomethane microturbines economic analysis resiliency analysis |
| url | https://www.mdpi.com/2075-5309/13/10/2516 |
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