A demand response strategy for air compressors network with optimal production and energy utilisation

11 October 2022, Version 1
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Abstract

The approach of integrating demand response strategy with operational scheduling is used to investigate the flexibility in the operational performance under time-sensitive electricity tariffs and to provide cost benefits analysis to the industrial consumers. The proposed approach focused on implementing a demand response strategy in a case study of scheduling for an industrial network of compressors for Time of Use and Enhanced Time of Use tariffs for heavy industries. The optimisation framework was developed as a mixed integer linear programming model. The percentage of total cost reduction is around 5% to 13% by implementing a demand response program. A considerable percentage of cost saving is possible to achieve for the Enhanced Time of use tariff since it offers an extensive off-peak time zone during the night hours and on the weekend. It is concluded that the study highlights the operational performance goal of achieving cost savings by implementing a demand response strategy for energy industries.

Keywords

compressor network
industrial process
scheduling
electricity
demand response
time-sensitive electricity tarif
time of use

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