The European Conference on Sustainability, Energy & the Environment 2016
Official Conference Proceedings

The European Conference on Sustainability, Energy & the Environment 2016
Official Conference Proceedings

The European Conference on Sustainability, Energy & the Environment 2016
Official Conference Proceedings

Depletion of fossil fuels and oncoming impacts of global warming reveal the vitality
of utilizing renewable power generation systems for future generations of humanity.
Investing in those systems also has several incentives in Europe for domestic
equipment usage or selling produced electricity to the grid with advantageous tariffs
in recent years. Reciprocating internal combustion engine based biogas cogeneration
provides simultaneous heat and electricity with respect to a single fuel input that is
obtained by the anaerobic digestion of renewable energy resources such as animal
manures and regenerative raw materials. A biogas cogeneration plant with a
photovoltaic (PV) system that transforms inexhaustible sunlight into electricity is an
energy efficient and reliable alternative in order to produce heat and electrical energy
at the same time for both on-grid systems in urban areas and off-grid systems in rural
areas.
In this study, techno-economic analysis of a grid-connected hybrid biogas/PV power
generation system settled in the Mediterranean Region is performed by investigating
the scenario of selling the produced electricity to the national grid with the
advantageous tariff price and evaluating heat energy within the plant.
Keywords: Hybrid, Biogas, Cogeneration, Photovoltaic, Power Generation.

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