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The Pahlev Reliability Index: A measurement for the resilience of power generation technologies versus climate change

  • Norouzi, Nima (Department of Energy Engineering and Physics, Amirkabir University of Technology (Tehran Polytechnic))
  • Received : 2020.07.31
  • Accepted : 2020.10.20
  • Published : 2021.05.25
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Abstract

Research on climate change and global warming on the power generation systems are rapidly increasing because of the Importance of the sustainable energy supply, thus the electricity supply since its growing share, in the end, uses energy supply. However, some researchers conducted this field, but many research gaps are not mentioned and filled in this field's literature since the lack of general statements and the quantitative models and formulation of the issue. In this research, an exergy-based model is implemented to model a set of six power generation technologies (combined cycle, gas turbine, nuclear plant, solar PV, and wind turbine) and use this model to simulate each technology's responses to climate change impacts. Finally, using these responses to define and calculate a formulation for the relationship between the system's energy performance in different environmental situations and a dimensionless index to quantize each power technology's reliability against the climate change impacts called the Pahlev reliability index (P-index) of the power technology. The results have shown that solar and nuclear technologies are the most, and wind turbines are the least reliable power generation technologies.

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The Author(s) announce that no funding used for this research in its conducting process, but we thank the Korean Nuclear Society for supporting the Open-access publish of this paper in the Nuclear Engineering and Technology Journal.

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