Distributed hydrokinetic power generation for remote community applications in cold climates

寒冷气候下偏远社区应用的分布式水力发电

• 批准号: RGPIN-2016-05902
• 负责人: Bibeau, Eric
• 金额: $ 2.77万
• 依托单位: University of Manitoba
• 依托单位国家: 加拿大
• 项目类别: Discovery Grants Program - Individual
• 财政年份: 2019
• 资助国家: 加拿大
• 起止时间: 2019-01-01 至 2020-12-31
• 项目状态: 已结题
• 来源: https://www.nserc-crsng.gc.ca/ase-oro/Details-Detailles_eng.asp?id=687101
• 关键词: Distributed; hydrokinetic; power; generation; remote

In Canada 84% of our energy for electricity, heat and transportation comes from fossil fuels; for remote communities, energy needs are mainly supplied by fossil fuels. Energy drivers---greenhouse gases that lead to climate change, peak oil, environmental emissions, long term energy security and sustainability---require our society to develop a portfolio of technologies that are cost effective in order to harness renewable energy and increase the percentage of renewable energy used in our communities. The activities proposed in this Discovery Grant renewal are directed towards developing novel technologies that are required by the marine industry to achieve lower levelized costs and to address practical requirements needed by the industry to provide sustainable communities with river and tidal hydrokinetic turbines. A new, rugged instrument will be developed to measure velocities for up to 2 years at potential river turbine sites to predict power production. This new instrument will be tested in-situ at the Canadian Hydrokinetic Turbine Testing Center (CHTTC) and the data will be used to develop expressions to predict velocity distribution, capacity factors and cumulative distribution of water velocities (2 MSc). The CHTTC flow channel will be characterized by simultaneously measuring velocities in 2-D planes, by traversing the water column with acoustic Doppler anemometry, and by using a microstructure profiler. This will be the first time such detailed velocity and turbulence measurements are made in a high velocity river location (2 MSc). A new 1-kW deployment system for hydrokinetic river applications in cold climates will be modeled, manufactured and tested to simplify deployment and achieve turbine stability in the flow. Its purpose is to significantly decrease the levelized cost of electricity when operating year round marine turbines in sustainable communities in cold climates (1 PhD). Numerical modeling and experimental testing of Darrieus turbines at the CHTTC will be performed to understand how to optimally position turbines to maximize power production (1 PhD). The value of the proposed research program is to allow communities living in cold climates to become self-reliant and sustainable by operating hydrokinetic turbines at levelized costs that is lower than alternatives.**

在加拿大，84%的电力、热能和交通能源来自化石燃料;对于偏远社区，能源需求主要由化石燃料提供。能源驱动因素--导致气候变化的温室气体、石油峰值、环境排放、长期能源安全和可持续性--要求我们的社会开发一系列具有成本效益的技术，以利用可再生能源，并增加可再生能源在我们社区的使用比例。本次发现补助金更新中提出的活动旨在开发海洋工业所需的新技术，以降低平准化成本，并满足该行业为可持续社区提供河流和潮汐水力涡轮机所需的实际要求。将开发一种新的坚固耐用的仪器，用于在潜在的河流涡轮机现场测量长达2年的速度，以预测发电量。这一新仪器将在加拿大流体动力涡轮机测试中心（CHTTC）进行现场测试，数据将用于开发预测流速分布、容量系数和水流速累积分布的表达式（2 MSc）。CHTTC流动通道的特点是同时测量2-D平面中的速度，通过用声学多普勒风速仪穿越水柱，并通过使用微结构剖面仪。这将是第一次在高速河流位置（2 MSc）进行如此详细的速度和湍流测量。一个新的1千瓦部署系统的水力河流应用在寒冷的气候将建模，制造和测试，以简化部署和实现涡轮机稳定的流动。其目的是显着降低电力的平准化成本时，全年运行的海洋涡轮机在可持续发展的社区在寒冷的气候（1博士）。将在CHTTC进行Darrieus涡轮机的数值建模和实验测试，以了解如何最佳定位涡轮机，以最大限度地提高发电量（1博士学位）。拟议的研究计划的价值是让生活在寒冷气候中的社区通过以低于替代品的平准化成本运行水力涡轮机来实现自力更生和可持续发展。**