Canada-China Clean Energy Initiative & Annual Workshop

Canada-China Clean Energy Initiative & Annual Workshop

Institute for Integrated Energy Systems

(IESVic)

Dr. Jay Sui 隋邦傑 on behalf of Professor Peter Wild, IESVic Director

Oct. 16, 2012 at Canada-Taiwan Conference for Higher Education

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Vancouver Island: ~0.7 million population Victoria: Capital of BC UVic: ~ 20,000 students & employees

Victoria

15 Faculty, 6 Disciplines

2 Support Staff

5 Research Associates/PDFs

40 Graduate Students

3 Undergraduate students Founded in 1989 by Dr. David Scott

Presentation outline

• Research capabilities in energy-related topics at IESVic/UVic

• A case study of collaboration on energy research

Research Themes

• Hydrogen and fuel cells

• Renewable energy

• Techno-economics

• Carbon management

• Transportation

Impacts

• Highly cited archival publications

– 5th most influential institution worldwide in energy and fuels research (2008 Science Watch survey*)

• Industrial collaborations

• Policy

• Graduates

Worley-Parsons Komex Sandia National Laboratories Plug Power BC Transit Westport Innovations Ballard Power Systems Carnegie Mellon University National Research Council Angstrom Power University of British Columbia BC Ministry of Energy, Mines and Petroleum resources

BC Ministry of Environment Vestas Queen's University GENIVAR Wind BC Transmission Corp. University of Colorado SES Environmental University of Toronto Aalborg University Simon Fraser University

*Based on citations per paper, among those institutions that published at least 100 papers 1998-2008.

The First IESVic Alumni Workshop, April 23, 2010

Highlight of Research Activities

• Hydrogen and fuel cells

• Renewable energy

• Techno-economics

• Carbon management

• Transportation

(X,Y)=X to Y Thermal Mechanical Chemical ElectroChem Solar Electrical Nuclear Biomass

Thermal * Combustion * Solar thermal Heating * Combustion

Mechanical Turbine * * *

Flywheel, pump water,

compress gas

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Chemical * * HC cracking

for H2 *

Solar fuel, photocatalysis

Electrolysis Hydrogen

generation Bio fuel

ElectroChem * * * ? Battery

charging * *

Solar * * * * * * *

Electrical Thermionics,

Thermal electrical

Wind, hydro, wave

Fuel cell Battery

discharging PV

Super capacitor

Nuclear power

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Nuclear * * * * * * *

Biomass * * * * * * *

Energy Conversion

IESVic research

Computational modelling of fuel cells - Multiscale simulations - Multiphase transport

Hydrogen & Fuel Cells

Renewable Energy

Techno-Economics

Carbon Management

Transportation

Profs. Ned Djilali, Peter Wild, Dave Sinton, David Harrington, Drs.Jay Sui, Kyle Lange

Micro-scale and microfluidic fuel cells

Air in

Air out

FBG1

FBG2

FBG3

FBG4

FBG

Thermocouple

Characterization & modelling of materials - Pore scale model - HR SEM/FIB, STEHM

In-situ fuel cell diagnostic - Impedance spectroscopy - Fibre optic sensors for T& RH

Hydrogen safety -Particle image velocimetry -Laser induced fluorescence -CFD

Hydrogen & Fuel Cells

Renewable Energy

Techno-Economics

Carbon Management

Transportation

Profs. Ned Djilali, Peter Wild, Zuomin Dong, Andrew Rowe, Peter Oshkai,

Metal hydride hydrogen storage systems - Thermal coupling of MH storage with fuel cell waste heat

Magnetic cycles for refrigeration & liquefaction - Low-temp. applications hydrogen liquefaction - Superconducting test apparatus

Ocean Wave Energy Converters (WEC) - Wave climate

characterisation - WEC design - Dynamic analysis &

optimisation - Implementation & testing

Hydrogen & Fuel Cells

Renewable

Energy

Techno-Economics

Carbon Management Transportation

Profs. Brad Buckham, Peter Wild, Andrew Rowe, Afzal Suleman, Peter Oshkai, Curran Crawford, Alex Brolo

Wind and ocean tidal current turbine design - Blade aerodynamics

and hydrodynamics - Blade structure design

Enhancing solar cell performance - Metallic nanostructures

on surface of PV cell - Improve absorption in

IR and NIR

Integration of renewable energy into large-scale and isolated grids - Impacts of significant

penetration - Wind, wave, tidal and solar - Complementary generation

mixes - Smart grid technology

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Climate data- Temperature- Humidity- Radiation

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Thermostatically Controlled Appliances

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Non-Thermostatically

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Residential House Model

ThermostatSetpoints sequence

Control Signals:- Fixed Schedule response- Schedule price response- Ancillary response- Fast-acting emergency load response

House Integration

Hydrogen & Fuel Cells

Renewable Energy

Techno-Economics

Carbon Management Transportation

Profs. Ned Djilali, Peter Wild, Kees van Kooten, Kara Shaw, Andrew Rowe, Curran Crawford

Quantifying CO2 transport and reactivity in carbon sequestration

- Reactivity in porous carbonate formations (i.e. limestone)

- Chip-based microfluidic models

Hydrogen & Fuel Cells

Renewable Energy

Techno-Economics

Carbon Management

Transportation

Prof. David Sinton

Integration of electric vehicles into distribution & transmission networks

- Impacts on peak loads

- Charging strategies

- Vehicle to grid (V2G)

- Integration of renewables

Hydrogen & Fuel Cells

Renewable Energy

Techno-Economics

Carbon Management Transportation

Profs. Peter Wild, Kees van Kooten, Andrew Rowe, Curran Crawford

Government Partners

Energy, Mines & Petroleum Resources

Natural Sciences and Engineering Research Council of Canada

Western Economic Diversification Canada

Natural Resources Canada

Industrial Partners

Academic Partners

• First annual workshop – Beijing, June 2010

• 6 IESVic researchers & 18 researchers 9 Chinese Universities

• Outcomes

• Research collaborations seeded

• Joint fund-raising

• Commitment to a long term initiative

• May 2011 – 2nd Symposium in Victoria

Canada-China Clean Energy Initiative

2nd Canada-China Clean Energy Research & Training Workshop

• May 13‐14, 2011, Victoria BC, Canada

• Organized by IESVic

• 25 participants from China, 29 from Canada

• Scope:

– Renewable Energy Technology: • Wind, solar, biomass, wave, tidal, biofuel, run‐of‐the‐River hydroelectricity

– Green Vehicles, Electric Drives & Battery Technology: • Hybrid vehicle, plug‐in hybrid electric vehicle, Li‐ion battery

– Smart Grid Technology: • Techno‐economic system modelling, demand control, demand response, smart

meter, security analysis of power system

– Hydrogen & Fuel Cell Technology: • Fuel cell component, stack and system, hydrogen production and storage, system

integration.

http://www.iesvic.uvic.ca/events/certc2011

3rd Canada-China Clean Energy Research & Training Symposium

• April 28‐29, 2012, Beijing, China

• Organized by Institute of Electrical Engineering, Chinese Academy of Sciences

• 28 participants from Canada, 50 from China

• 8 collaborative projects proposed

How do we collaborate? A case study of UVic-TJU collaboration on smart grid

A Framework for Automatic Resources Commitment & Economic Dispatch (ARC & AED)

Grid Integration for Various Ancillary Service

(Upper-level optimization)

Demand Response (Lower-level optimization)

Device Control (Lower-level control)

• Thematically controlled Loads • PHEV/EV/FCV • Electrolyzers (Hydrogen station) • Energy Storages • …

ConventionalPower Plant

RenewablePower Plant

Virtual Power plant

Virtual Generator Model (VGM)

Participatingresponsive load states

Direct controlconveying

system-level objective

Feasible Optimaldispatchobjective

Comfort-constraints

Offset the variability

Alleviate the need

OPF-basedResourceDispatch

ResourceControl

(Aggregated Demand

Response)

Load Aggregator

(PHEV)

Operating-constraints

ActivePowerSupply

OPF-based Model(Environment, Market...)

Load Community

(LC2)

Load Community

(LC1)

Load Community

(LCm)

Load Aggregator

(Heat pump)

Load Aggregator

(Electrolyzers)

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Optimal Power Flow

• Voltage and active power stability • Frequency Regulation • Spinning reserve • …

Statement of Collaboration

Dividing tasks and integrating

Distributed ResourceModels

DetailedEnd-uses

Load Model

demand/supply

supply

Transmission System Level

Wholesales Market

(e.g. Day ahead)

Load ServingEntity

operational parameters

energy schedule

control signals

Distribution System Level

energy schedule

Economics/Market Level

ComponentsSimulation

Distribution Systems

Simulation

IESVic

TJU

Collaboration

Climate data-Solar radiation-Wind speed-Temperature-Humidity

– Distributed Resources – Storage (LEAP, BCHP Screening Tool, EnergyPRO, Solar Advisor,

Model(SAM), TRNSYS16)

Smart Building Model(DOE-2, BLAST, TRNSYS,

ELCAP)

Smart Distribution

System Simualtion

Tool

Equivalent DistributionFeeder Load Model/Data

Interaction simulation

DTS/OTS Simulator

(Power Flow/Dynamics)

System variables

Demand Response

Control

CustomerBehaviors

operational parameters

Three-phaseDistribution

Feeder

Distribution Network Structure &Parameters

(Automated mapping [AM]/facilities management [FM]/

GIS systems)

system voltage

/frequency

contracts(price signals)

operational parameters

energy schedule

Distribution system

operators Generation company

Transmission system operators

energy schedule

energy schedule

energy schedule

Renewable ResourcesIntegration

(Wind Park, Solar Plant)&

Storage Devices

Security Region, Optimization

(SVSR, OPF, etc.)

TransmissionSystems

Simulation

Collaboration

Data Collection

Level

Collaboration

Seed fund works • Project 3

Interactive distribution system considering communication system constraints

• Project 4 A smart micro-grid integrated Complementary Energy Sources and Massive Adoption of PHEV/EREV/EVs

1st CCCERT Workshop June 2010, Tianjin/Beijing

• Drs. Ned Djilali and Jay Sui visited School of Electrical Engineering and Automation, Tianjin University

• Meeting with Drs. Yixin Yu and Hongjie Jia, researchers and students

• Lab tours and initial discussion on possible collaboration work

• Drs. Peng Li and Guo Li, on Dr. Chengshan Wang’s behalf, attended the 1st CCCERT Workshop at PKU

2nd CCCERT Workshops May 2011, Victoria

• Participants from TJU:

– Drs. Jingli Zhao, Wei Wei, Shouxiang Wang

Smart Grid and Energy Systems Workshop Oct. 2011, Tianjin

• Participants from UVIC, TJU, BJTU,PNNL

• Lectures and lab tours

• Objective: to solidify collaborative relationship among participating institutes since the 2nd Workshop

Smart Grid with Advanced Communication

System Workshop Victoria, February 2012

• Participants from UVIC, TJU, BC Hydro, PNNL

• Seminar talks and technical meetings

• Objective: to discuss possible avenues of enhancing communication technology to existing 863 projects

Publications [J1] S. Parkinson, D. Wang, C. Crawford, N. Djilali, 2011. Comfort-constrained distributed heat

pump management. Energy Procedia, 2012, 849–855.

[J2] D. Wang, S. Parkinson, W. Miao, H. Jia, C. Crawford, N. Djilali, Online voltage security assessment considering comfort-constrained demand response control of distributed heat pump systems. Applied Energy (2012), doi:10.1016/j.apenergy.2011.12.005

[J3] W. Miao, H. Jia, D. Wang, S. Parkinson, C. Crawford and N. Djilali, Active Power Regulation of Wind Power System through demand response, Accepted: Science China (Technological Sciences), 2011.

[J4] S. Parkinson, D. Wang, C. Crawford, N. Djilali, Wind integration in self-regulating electric load distributions. Accepted: Energy Systems, 2012.

[C1] D. Wang, T. Broeer, N. Djilali, A. Rowe, W. Miao, Static Voltage Stability Analysis of Power Systems Using a Market-Driven Feeder-level Model with Wind Power Integration, Annual Conference & Exhibition of Canadian Wind Energy Association (CANWEA), Montreal, 2010

[C2] D. Wang, W. Miao, T. Broeer, H. Jia, N. Djilali, Probabilistic total transfer capability based on static voltage stability region analysis and uncertainties of aggregated feeder-level load data, 21st International Conference on Electricity Distribution (CIRED), Frankfurt, 2011 .

[C3] D. Wang, B. de Wit, S. Parkinson, J. Fuller, D. Chassin, C. Crawford, N. Djilali, A test bed for self-regulating distribution systems: Modeling integrated renewable energy and demand response in the GridLAB-D/MATLAB environment. IEEE PES Conference on Innovative Smart Grid Technologies, Washington DC, 2012.

Future work • Papers [J5] D. Wang, S. Parkinson, W. Miao, H. Jia, C. Crawford and N. Djilali, Hierarchal electricity

market-integration of disparate responsive load groups using comfort-constrained load aggregation as spinning reserve, Applied Energy (in review).

[J6] T. Williams, D. Wang, C. Crawford, N. Djilali, Integrating Renewable Energy Using a Smart Distribution System: Potential of Self-regulating Demand Response. To be submitted to Renewable Energy.

• ISGT (Keynote speech) [C4] N. Djilali, Heading Towards Low Carbon Energy Systems: Wind Power, the Electricity Grid

and Demand Response, Accepted: IEEE PES Conference on Innovative Smart Grid Technologies, Tianjin, China, May 21-24, 2012.

Key elements for successful collaboration

• Research topic: same big picture with complementary capabilities from both parties

• People: vision, talents, team work

• Communication: common ground, time zones

• Money: NSERC, NSFC, CSC, 973, 863, ISTP, in-kind, etc.

Acknowledgements • Canada Research Chair: Prof. Ned Djilali

• Tianjin University: – CAE Academician Yixin Yu, Profs. Chengshan Wang, Hongjie Jia, Xiangyu Kong

– 863 program ‘灵活互动的智能用电关键技术研究’

• University of Victoria: – VP Research Dr. Howard Brunt

– IESVic, Director Prof. Peter Wild

• Pacific Institute for Climate Solutions (PICS)

• Pacific Northwest National Lab (PNNL) – Mr. David Chassin, Mr. Jason Fuller, Dr. Ning Lu

• Natural Science and Engineering Council (NSERC): – Wind Energy Strategic Network (WESNet),

– Hydrogen Canada (H₂CAN) Strategic Research Network

Acknowledgements

• Dr. Dan Wang (IESVic)

• UVIC faculty: – M.E.: Profs. Zuomin Dong, Curran Crawford, Andrew Rowe

– ECE: Profs. Hongchuan Yang, Lin Cai

– CS: Prof. Jianping Pan

• Students: – TJU: Weiwei Miao

– UVIC: Simon Parkinson, Trevor Williams, Lei Zheng, Braydon de Wit, Dr. Adel Younis, Torst

– en Broeer

• Dr. Wenpeng Luan (BC Hydro)

• April 29-30, 2013

• Organized and will take place at University of Victoria, Victoria BC

• Concurrent technical symposium with partners from industry

4th Canada-China Clean Energy Research & Training Workshop

Thank you!

To chart feasible paths to sustainable energy system