An energy management system employing Direct Supply Strategy for the hybrid cogeneration application

Abstract

Cogeneration needs an efficient energy management system to ensure their components able to work with minimum cost and at the same time have the maximum efficient. Due to that, the planning on the energy operation is important part whereas the study on energy management system has been discussed widely. Hence, this article presents the Direct Supply Strategy (DiSS) with the application of Harmony Search Algorithms (HSA) to cater the energy management system optimization issue for hybrid FC-PV cogeneration. The component of hybrid FC-PV is including PEMFC, photovoltaic integrated with battery storage to meet a demand from the medical block in Hospital Temerloh. The recognized input parameters needed in the simulation is solved in MATLAB environment whereby the finding from the HSA is then benchmarked with the Genetic Algorithms in order to observe the efficiency of proposed HSA to solve the DiSS. In addition, the proposed operation mode of DiSS also presented. As a results, the total profits obtained from this strategy were estimated to be RM167 per day or RM6095.50 per year.