Simulation-Based Investigation for the Application of Microgrid with Renewable Sources in Manufacturing Systems Towards Sustainability

Abstract

Existing research on the application of the microgrid with renewable sources mainly focused on the residential buildings and critical facilities, while largely neglecting the industrial manufacturing sector. Indeed, manufacturing industry contributes a large portion of energy consumption and greenhouse gas emissions to the environment. In addition, the manufacturing industry is also affected the most by power outages. The utilization of Microgrid technology can reduce the environmental impacts and improve the resilience of the manufacturing activities. In this paper, a simulation model including both a manufacturing system module and a microgrid module will be established to investigate the feasibility of the application of microgrid technology in manufacturing. A real auto component manufacturing system will be simulated. Different renewable resources with different sizes serving as onsite generation sources to provide the energy to the manufacturing system will be examined regarding their financial performance and energy generation capability.

Meeting Name

2016 International Annual Conference of the American Society for Engineering Management, ASEM 2016 (2016: Oct. 26-29, Charlotte, NC)

Department(s)

Engineering Management and Systems Engineering

Research Center/Lab(s)

Intelligent Systems Center

Keywords and Phrases

Microgrid; Onsite; Renewable; Sustainable Manufacturing

Document Type

Article - Conference proceedings

Document Version

Citation

File Type

text

Language(s)

English

Rights

© 2016 American Society for Engineering Management (ASEM), All rights reserved.

Publication Date

01 Oct 2016

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