dc.contributor.author | Muralidhar, Anirudh | |
dc.date.accessioned | 2011-01-06T18:50:04Z | |
dc.date.available | 2011-01-06T18:50:04Z | |
dc.date.issued | 2011-01-06 | |
dc.identifier.uri | http://hdl.handle.net/10222/13181 | |
dc.description.abstract | The world faces two major energy-related challenges: reducing greenhouse-gas emissions and improving energy security. Wind-electricity, a clean and environmentally sustainable energy source, appears promising. However, its intermittency is problematic when used as a supply for on-demand electricity.
Wind-electricity can be used for space heating when combined with thermal-storage systems; although its intermittency can result in periods of excess electricity. To reduce the excess, this thesis proposes using wind-electricity for thermal-storage and electric-vehicles. Four charging procedures are designed and developed. Data from an eastern Canadian wind-farm is used to demonstrate the procedures.
The results are compared and discussed in terms of the supply of wind-electricity and its ability to meet the energy requirements of these services. Depending on the procedure, wind-electricity displaced between 20 and 26 GWh of energy previously required for space-heating and transportation, demonstrating that wind-electricity, with intermittently-chargeable loads using storage, is a solution to the intermittency problem. | en_US |
dc.language.iso | en | en_US |
dc.subject | Energy security, Greenhouse gas emissions, Transportation, Thermal storage, Batteries | en_US |
dc.title | INTEGRATING WIND GENERATED ELECTRICITY WITH SPACE HEATING AND STORAGE BATTERIES | en_US |
dc.date.defence | 2010-12-20 | |
dc.contributor.department | Department of Electrical & Computer Engineering | en_US |
dc.contributor.degree | Master of Applied Science | en_US |
dc.contributor.external-examiner | N/A | en_US |
dc.contributor.graduate-coordinator | Dr. Michael Cada | en_US |
dc.contributor.thesis-reader | Dr. Jason Gu | en_US |
dc.contributor.thesis-reader | Dr. Robert Bauer | en_US |
dc.contributor.thesis-supervisor | Dr. Larry Hughes | en_US |
dc.contributor.ethics-approval | Not Applicable | en_US |
dc.contributor.manuscripts | Not Applicable | en_US |
dc.contributor.copyright-release | Not Applicable | en_US |