EFRI-RESIN: The Interface of Infrastructures, Markets, and Natural Cycles - Innovative Modeling and Control Mechanisms for Managing Electricity, Water and Air Quality in Texas

PI姓名：大卫艾伦机构：德克萨斯大学奥斯汀分校提案编号：0835414该奖项是作为研究和创新新兴前沿（NSF 07-579）征集子主题弹性和可持续建筑结构（树脂）的一部分的竞争结果。 该项目的目标是证明，通过将空气质量和水供应评估纳入发电调度决策，可以使发电和供水基础设施的运营更具弹性和可持续性。该项目建议：1）利用得克萨斯州作为数据来源和地理和时间试验台，建立综合基础设施/市场/自然循环模型; 2）评估综合系统对一系列挑战或“冲击”的复原力，以测试复原力和可持续性; 3）评估替代技术、经济和体制机制，将空气质量和水供应评估纳入发电系统的运作;这些改变将包括对现有批发电力市场、空气质量监管和排放市场的改变，以及水市场的潜在发展。这项研究的结果将为提高电力和水基础设施的弹性提供新的方法。这项工作的一个主要成果将是通过将先进的气象信息与发电、空气质量管理和水供应方面的现有和潜在市场发展相结合，为下一代管理发电对排放和用水影响的框架提供原则证明。该框架还将有助于理解综合系统中扰动的更广泛影响，通过展示下一代空气质量、用水和发电综合管理框架，该项目将为案例研究区域的决策者提供替代方案。此外，该项目产生的信息将用于开发教育模块，用于UT和MIT的能源系统，空气污染控制和环境法规和政策课程。此外，项目人员还将参加介绍项目成果的科学和政策会议/讲习班，包括麻省理工学院的“骑士科学新闻研究员”等论坛，记者将在麻省理工学院学习一年。最后，该项目将用于继续德克萨斯大学对女学生的宣传，特别是通过让UT的妇女参与工程计划（WEP）的参与者作为项目实习生。

PI name: David AllenInstitution: University of Texas at AustinProposal Number: 0835414This award is an outcome of the competition as part of the Emerging Frontiers in Research and Innovation (NSF 07-579) solicitation under the subtopic Resilient and Sustainable Infrastructures (RESIN). The goal of this project is to demonstrate that the operation of electricity generation and water supply infrastructures can be made more resilient and sustainable by integrating assessments of air quality and water availability into electricity generation dispatching decisions. The project proposes to:1) Create integrated infrastructure/markets/natural cycles models using the state of Texas as a source of data and as a geographic and temporal test-bed.2) Evaluate the resiliency of the integrated system to a series of challenges or "shocks" to test resiliency and sustainability3) Assess alternative technical, economic and institutional mechanisms for incorporating assessments of air quality and water availability into the operation of electricity generating systems; these alterations will include changes to existing wholesale power markets, air quality regulation, and emissions markets, as well as potential developments in water markets.The results of this research would provide new methods for improving the resilience of electrical and water infrastructures. A major outcome of the work will be the proof of principle for a next-generation framework for managing the impact on emissions and water use of electricity generation by integrating advanced meteorological information with existing and potential market developments in electricity generation, air quality management, and water availability. This framework will also help in understanding a broader set of impacts from perturbations in the integrated system.By demonstrating a next-generation framework for the integrated management of air quality, water use, and electricity generation, the project will provide alternatives for policy-makers in the case study region. In addition, the information generated by this project will be used to develop educational modules that will be used in classes in energy systems, air pollution control and environmental regulation and policy at both UT and MIT. Further, project personnel will participate in scientific and policy meetings/workshops at which project results will be presented, including forums such as MIT's "Knight Science Journalism Fellows", in which journalists spend a year at MIT. Finally, the project will be used to continue the University of Texas' outreach to female students, specifically by engaging participants in UT's Women in Engineering Program (WEP) as project interns.