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Synthetic load profile generation for production chains in energy intensive industrial subsectors via a bottom-up approach
Paul Binderbauer, Thomas Kienberger, Thomas Staubmann - Publication in "Journal of Cleaner Production" (Volume 331), 10 January 2022
Iron & Steel, Pulp & Paper, Non-Metallic Minerals and Chemical & Petrochemical are the most energy intensive subsectors, even though they utilise only a limited range of production processes compared to other sectors like Machinery or Food & Beverages. To support future efforts for decarbonising the European industry, this study aims to develop a methodology to correctly and dynamically depict all relevant production processes of the mentioned subsectors and to generate synthetic load profiles (LP)1 based upon their consumption and generation behaviour...
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Development of a load profile generator for the iron and steel industry using discrete-event simulation
Thomas Staubmann, Thomas Kienberger, Paul Binderbauer - Master Thesis, 15 June 2021
This master thesis deals with the generation of realistic load profiles of user-defined process landscapes for the energy categories electricity, direct fuel and steam. With the help of a logistic model, a time-controlled process flow of material and energy flows through any process landscape is ensured in order to be able to output cumulative load profiles for the defined balance groups gross energy demand and total energy demand...
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