Economic Aspect of Fuel Cell Power as Distributed Generation

According to importance and security of energy in recent years, too many research about renweable energy have been done. Among renewable energy sources, fuel cell has far attention, because theefficiency of fuel cells is always higher as compared with other distributed generation systems. Fuelcell has a lot of advantages such as: high efficiency (35% - 60%), low to zero emissions, quiet operation, high reliability due to the limited number of moving parts and the ability to be placed at any site in a distribution system without geographic limitations. Management in supplying residential loadwith fuel cell power plant (FCPP) connected to grid is the aim of this paper. Economical fuel cell model includes Operational cost, startup cost and different tariffs on electricity during the day hour is discussed. In the present research, reformer is used to produce hydrogen for FCPP. Genetic algorithm(GA) is used to determine optimal operation of FCPP with six-minute change in load pattern. Theresults are discussed in conclusion

کلیدواژه ها:

Distributed Generation ، Energy Management ، Fuel Cell Power Plant ، Genetic Algorithm ،