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

0128168 Laufenberg这个小型企业创新研究(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。无论是在这个国家，还是在寻求打造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，对燃烧富碳物质的环境影响的担忧正在加剧，特别是在温室气体和酸雨的排放方面。尽管使用更清洁的能源和技术可以帮助缓解发电量增加对环境的影响，但此类替代能源需要更大的初始投资，这使得它们的采用很难推销。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，并以前所未有的轻松方式试验各种传输拓扑。该一揽子计划将使用综合应急分析工具评估系统可靠性。它将通过核算与各种发电和输电设备相关的启动和建设成本，并使用经济调度计算预计的运营成本，来评估设计的财务影响。最后，它将根据用户定义的排放经验公式，通过计算其动力源排放的污染物量来评估设计的环境影响。PowerWorld公司试图开拓的细分市场是开发高质量但极其用户友好的电力系统可视化软件，以帮助回答以下问题：如何以可靠、清洁和经济的方式满足日益增长的电力需求？通过将可靠性、经济性和环境分析集成到一个包中，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高效和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.