ABSTRACT

Biomass energy is clean and environment-friendly resource among other renewable

energy options. But neither a standalone biomass energy system nor a wind energy
system can provide a continuous supply of energy due to seasonal and periodic
variations. Therefore, in order to satisfy the load demand, grid connected biomass
power plant are now being implemented.
The objective of this work is to study of energy storage on a micro-grid system
consisting of a very small power producer of a biomass type. The energy storage used
in this dissertation is a battery bank. It comprises a combination between shunt and
series battery cells in order to implement a sufficient battery storage system.
To simulate and optimize the performance using !"#$%hybrid optimization
model for electrical renewable& software in order to support and also to balance
the energy e'change between the generation %drawn from both substation and
renewable energy plants& and the power demand of the entire system. (ith the
energy storage plant of battery banks, a simple )-bus test system with a total power
generation of *+, -( from biomass power plant and *),-( grid substation is taken
for test.
.onsidering of *,, batteries of bus voltage /0 each battery, string in parallel
are *,, with string size one. Total nominal capacity of battery is 12,-(h.
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