Optimal Distributed Energy Resource Management System
AssigneeInternational Business Machines Corporation
InventorsKhalid Abdulla, Julia Baldauf, Julian de Hoog, Benjamin S. Mashford
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Abstract
A method comprises generating power at a solar photovoltaic cell; receiving, at a controller, one or more input parameters pertaining to a power output of the solar photovoltaic cell; introducing liquid to the solar photovoltaic cell in response to the power output of the solar photovoltaic cell to increase the efficiency of the solar photovoltaic cell; recovering heat from the liquid introduced to the solar photovoltaic cell; and selecting an appropriate distribution of the power output of the solar photovoltaic cell to one or more power-drawing components in a way that maximizes a chosen objective for the whole of system.
Claims18
A system for managing the distribution of energy among multiple components, the system comprising:
- a solar photovoltaic generation system configured to generate power;
- an energy storage system;
- a cold storage system;
- a heat bank;
- an end user;
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- a computer that controls operations of the solar photovoltaic generation system;
- wherein the computer is configured to receive one or more input parameters pertaining to a power output of the solar photovoltaic generation system and one or more input parameters pertaining to power requirements of the energy storage system, the cold storage system, the heat bank, and the end user;
- wherein the computer is configured to cause the introduction of liquid to the solar photovoltaic generation system in response to the power output of the solar photovoltaic generation system to increase the efficiency of the solar photovoltaic generation system;
- wherein the computer is configured to predict, using one or more of the input parameters, an energy consumption pattern;
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- wherein the computer is configured to select an appropriate distribution of the power output of the solar photovoltaic cell to one or more of the energy storage system, the cold storage system, the heat bank, and the end user, based on the predicted energy consumption pattern, to achieve a user-defined objective.
A method, comprising:
- generating power at a solar photovoltaic cell;
- receiving, at a controller, one or more input parameters pertaining to a power output of the solar photovoltaic cell;
- introducing, from a cold storage system, liquid cooling and cleaning to the solar photovoltaic cell in response to the power output of the solar photovoltaic cell to increase the efficiency of the solar photovoltaic cell;
- recovering heat from the liquid introduced to the solar photovoltaic cell;
- compiling a dataset of the one or more input parameters and amounts of recovered heat from the liquid introduced to the solar photovoltaic cell;
- predicting, from the compiled dataset of the one or more input parameters and the amounts of heat recovered, an energy consumption pattern;
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- selecting an appropriate distribution of the power output of the photovoltaic cell to one or more power-drawing components;
- wherein selecting an appropriate distribution of the power output of the solar photovoltaic cell to one or more power-drawing components comprises distributing outputs to one or more of the cold storage system, an energy storage system, and a building based on the predicted energy consumption pattern.
Dependencies are inferred from the claim text.