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Montatge experimental de un Ballard, auto-humidificador, d'una pila de combustible PEM refrigerat per aire, es part del projecte: Micro Reactor Supported Fuel Re-synthesis from CO2, projecte dirigit per el Prof. Toshko Zhelev i Padraig Mac Suibhne. La configuració d'un Ballard, auto-humidificador, d' una pila de combustible PEM refrigerat per aire, s'ha fet a Barcelona per Pádraig Mac Suibhne i Núria Parera Sallent amb la supervisió del Dr. Moisès Graells i el Prof. Josep M. Guerrero i la colaboració de Prof. María Serra i el professor Jordi Riera del laboratori d' IRII (el Instituto de Robótica i Informàtica Industrial).

A microgrid (MG) is a local energy system consisting of a number of energy sources, energy storage units and loads that operate connected to the main electrical grid or autonomously. MGs include wind, solar or other renewable energy sources. MGs provide flexibility, reduce the main electricity grid dependence and contribute to change the large centralized production paradigm to local and distributed generation. However, such energy systems require complex management, advanced control and optimization. Interest on MGs hierarchical control has increased due to the availability of cheap online measurements. Similarly to any process system, MG hierarchical control is divided into three levels. However, an additional control algorithm is required to manage power transmission between sources and loads, maximizing efficiency and minimizing transmission losses. This real-time optimization problem is addressed to locally readjust converters operation to attain global efficiency. An algorithm is presented by formulating and solving the power sharing optimization problem in a two-level approach. The objective function is the sum of the apparent power transferred, whose minimization reduces total power losses and energy costs. The performance of the approach proposed is validated on a simulated case study. Different scenarios are tested and the performance of the algorithm is compared and discussed. The power losses reduction obtained with the proposed approach are compared with those obtained by standard procedures (Equal Power Sharing - EPS), showing enhanced performance.

A new optimization model is presented for the short-term management of the energy supply and demand in smart grids. The detailed model includes a flexible demand profile in order to manage the energy requirements by incorporating penalizations in the economic objective function for delays in satisfying energy demand. The MILP model for the optimization of deterministic scenarios is reformulated in order to incorporate discrete and hybrid time representations. This approach allows considering a different granularity of the problem. Finally, the improved performance of the hybrid approach introduced is shown by comparing the performance of these two time representations.

En aquest projecte es realitza l'estudi del procés foto-Fenton a partir de la implementació del model proposat per Cabrera Reina et. al. (2012) mitjançant el software Matlab. Posteriorment, es porten a terme un seguit d'experiments en una planta pilot i , a partir dels resultats obtinguts, s'estudien diferents procediments per tal d'ajustar els paràmetres del model implementat.

Aquest treball presenta una sèrie de eines que permetran al experimentador fer un estudi de les dades experimental . El procediment estudiat serà photo-Fenton seguint un model prèviament desenvolupat (Cabrera Reina et. al. (2012))el qual aporta beneficis a l'hora de treballar amb aquest procés. El software utilitzat ser Python i Modelica ja que com ha objectius secundari es vol demostrar el poder del software lliure. Aquestes eines creades poden realitzar tasques de simulació, calibració i control òptim del nostre model. Un cop obtingut això se ha realitzat una connexió amb OPC.