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Title: Simulation-based design of energy management system with storage battery for a refugee shelter in Japan

Journal Article · · AIP Conference Proceedings
DOI:https://doi.org/10.1063/1.4848097· OSTI ID:22261746
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  1. Department of Technology Management for Innovation, Graduate School of Engineering, The University of Tokyo (Japan)
  2. Korea Advanced Institute of Science and Technology (Korea, Republic of)

Since the massive earthquake hit eastern Japan in March, 2011, our team has participated in the recovery planning for Kesen Association, which is a group of cities in northeastern Japan. As one of our proposals for the recovery planning for the community, we are designing energy management system with renewable energy (RE) and storage batteries. Some public facilities in the area have been used as refugee shelters, but refugees had to put up with life without electricity for a while after the disaster. If RE generator and storage batteries are introduced into the facilities, it is possible to provide refugees with electricity. In this study, the sizes of photovoltaic (PV) appliances and storage batteries to be introduced into one public facility are optimized. The optimization is based on simulation, in which electric energy is managed by charge and discharge of storage battery.

OSTI ID:
22261746
Journal Information:
AIP Conference Proceedings, Vol. 1568, Issue 1; Conference: International workshop on solar-chemical energy storage (SolChES), Sendai (Japan), 23-28 Jul 2012; Other Information: (c) 2013 AIP Publishing LLC; Country of input: International Atomic Energy Agency (IAEA); ISSN 0094-243X
Country of Publication:
United States
Language:
English