Abstract
In the landscape of Korea, having numerous industrial complexes and densely populated residential areas and showing evident seasonal changes, district heating systems (DHS) with large-scale combined heat and power plants (L-CHP) are widely utilized. L-CHP is a combined system consisting of a backpressure turbine and an extraction-condensing turbine. It can transition the operation mode according to the heat and electric load situation, unlike small-scale CHP (S-CHP), which has a single operation mode. This paper defines the physical constraints and the outputs of heat and electricity for L-CHP’s operation modes and intermediate modes, which are the transition processes between operation modes. In addition, a novel optimal scheduling model of DHS based on mixed integer linear programming (MILP) is presented. The DHS comprises L-CHP and auxiliary facilities such as a peak load boiler and electric/thermal storage systems. To demonstrate the proposed optimization model, case studies are conducted with a sample DHS responding to the seasonal heat demands and Korean electricity market prices. The simulations are performed using IBM’s CPLEX Studio IDE 12.8.0.
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This work was supported by the Human Resources Program in Energy Technology of the Korea Institute of Energy Technology Evaluation and Planning(KETEP) and the Ministry of Trade, Industry & Energy(MOTIE) of the Republic of Korea (No. 20204010600220).
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Appendix
A Objective Function
B Constraints
1.1 B.1 Constraints on Heat Balance
1.2 B.2 Constraints on the Status of L-CHP’s Operation Mode
1.3 B.3 Constraints on the Direction of L-CHP’s Mode Transition
1.4 B.4 Constraints on the Production Limits of L-CHP and PLB
1.5 B.5 Constraints on ACC
1.6 B.6 Constraints on ESS
1.7 B.7 The other Technical Constraints of L-CHP
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Song, HY., Lee, DH., Roh, J.H. et al. Optimal Operation Strategy of Large-scale CHP in District Heating System. J. Electr. Eng. Technol. (2024). https://doi.org/10.1007/s42835-024-01909-5
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