Climate change is a pressing issue faced by modern society, with decarbonisation a necessary initiative in transitioning to a more sustainable future. Decarbonisation of the industrial sector can be achieved through demand flexibility, where plant operation is controlled relative to electricity market spot prices. This allows for the use of cheaper power as well as providing wider benefits to the grid as a whole. With large enough scale this can encourage uptake of variable renewable energy sources and reduce reliance upon stored water and dispatchable fossil fuel plants.
The project will focus on the modelling of industrial processes to explore potential for grid following operation to provide demand flexibility. You will work closely with PhD students to model relevant processes and explore dynamic operation. Students interested in this project should have an appetite for learning mathematical modelling approaches and coding languages.
This will consist of:
Two separate industrial processes will be examined (with one for each student): dairy production and hydrogen electrolysis. The demand flexibility is shared by both students.
Undergraduate
1) Industrial process models with an appropriate level of fidelity will be built.
2) Investigation of the proposed process flexibility under various demand conditions
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No lab has been assigned to this project