SBIR Phase I: A Platform for Designing and Evaluating Electric Power System Generation Sources

小型企业创新研究（SBIR）第一阶段项目提出了一个新的软件平台，用于设计和模拟发电和输电网络。无论是在我国还是在寻求建立可持续工业化经济的发展中国家，对可靠电力的需求都在急剧增长。与此同时，人们对燃烧富含碳的物质对环境的影响，特别是温室气体和酸雨的排放的担忧正在加剧。虽然使用更清洁的能源和技术可以帮助减轻电力生产增加对环境的影响，但这些替代方案需要更大的初始投资，因此很难采用。该软件将使系统架构师能够以图形方式设计系统，并使用考虑可靠性、财务成本和环境影响的综合方法来评估和比较其优点。用户将能够在整个系统中分配发电资源，改变发电机燃料和技术类型，并以前所未有的容易试验各种传输拓扑。该软件包将使用综合应急分析工具评估系统可靠性。它将通过计算与各种发电和输电设备有关的启动和建造费用以及使用经济调度计算预计的运行费用来评估设计所涉财务问题。最后，它将根据用户定义的排放经验公式，通过计算其电源排放的污染物量来评估设计的环境影响。PowerWorld公司正试图开拓的利基市场是开发高质量、用户友好的电力系统可视化软件，以帮助回答以下问题：如何可靠、清洁、经济地满足不断增长的电力需求？通过将可靠性、经济性和环境分析整合到一个软件包中，该工具将使开发人员、工程师、经济学家和政策制定者能够开发出高效、清洁的电力系统设计。

0128168Laufenberg This Small Business Innovation Research (SBIR) Phase I project proposes a new software platform for designing and simulating electric power generation and delivery networks. The demand for reliable electric power, both in this country and in developing nations seeking to forge a sustainable industrialized economy, is growing dramatically. At the same time, fears over the environmental repercussions of burning carbon-rich matter, particularly in regards to the emission of greenhouse gases and acid rain, are intensifying. While using cleaner energy sources and technologies could help mitigate the environmental impact of increased power production, the larger initial investment required by such alternatives has made their adoption a tough sell. The software will enable system architects to design a system graphically and to assess and compare its merits using an integrated approach that considers reliability, financial cost, and environmental impact. Users will be able to distribute generation resources throughout a system, change generator fuel and technology types, and experiment with various transmission topologies with unprecedented ease. The package will assess system reliability using an integrated contingency analysis tool. It will evaluate the financial implications of a design by accounting for start-up and construction costs associated with various generating and transmission equipment and calculating projected operating costs using economic dispatch. Finally, it will assess the environmental impact of a design by calculating the amount of pollutants emitted by its power sources based on empirical formulas for emissions defined by the user. The market niche that PowerWorld Corporation is attempting to exploit is the development of high-quality, yet extremely user-friendly power system visualization software to help answer the question: how can increased demand for electric power be met reliably, cleanly, and economically? By integrating reliability, economic, and environmental analyses into a single package, the tool will enable developers, engineers, economists, and policy makers to develop efficient and clean power system designs.