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Tesi etd-03242015-171717


Tipo di tesi
Tesi di laurea magistrale
Autore
MALANDRINI, LORENZO
URN
etd-03242015-171717
Titolo
Analysis of the Impact of Multi-energy Systems on the Economy and Carbon Emissions
Dipartimento
INGEGNERIA DELL'ENERGIA, DEI SISTEMI, DEL TERRITORIO E DELLE COSTRUZIONI
Corso di studi
INGEGNERIA GESTIONALE
Relatori
relatore Prof. Dulmin, Riccardo
relatore Prof. Franco, Alessandro
Parole chiave
  • sensitivity analysis
  • planning
  • model
  • management
  • energy systems
Data inizio appello
29/04/2015
Consultabilità
Completa
Riassunto
The analysis of global energy context provides the problems related to the energy consumption as the fossil fuels supply and consumption, the increasing carbon emissions and costs of energy systems management. Diffusion of renewable sources have provided opportunities to face these problems, but also has increased the complexity turning the systems into multi-energy systems. Analysis of multi-energy systems provides several challenges for researchers due to the interaction of multiple parameters. The role of management and planning, the control of the many different parameters and the coordination of different systems, play a key role to set economic and environmental strategies. Thus the need of new methodological approaches for the analysis of systems. The present work allowed the selection of three available tools able to study energy systems issues and then to implement them on specific economic and environmental scenarios connected to the diffusion of renewables in Italy. The present work concerns an applied and quantitative research approach by simulation where the construction of computer modelling is used to generate data in a controlled environment and parameters can be manipulated to study their effects on other behaviours. This approach is useful to understand possible future conditions of systems.
The research is the result of a 5 months internship at the Nuclear, Plasma and Radiological Engineering Department (NPRE) at the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign. The internship is part of MoU with the University of Pisa. The research has been developed in the framework of the ‘Partnerships for International Research and Education (PIRE): Nuclear Energy Systems and Materials under Extreme Conditions’ funded by the USA National Science Foundation (NSF).
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