M. Mohammadi, Y. Noorollahi, B. Mohammadi-ivatloo, M. Hosseinzadeh, H. Yousefi, and S. T. Khorasani, Renewable and Sustainable Energy Reviews, vol. 89, pp. 33-50, 2018..
The increase of environmental concerns, scarcity of fossil fuel resources, uncontrolled growth of demand, along with the development of efficient multi-generation systems have made the restructuring of current energy systems inevitable. Future energy systems will be in the form of sustainable multi-energy systems. The optimal operation of such systems requires an integrated energy management system for optimal planning, control and management. Energy Hub (EH) is a new and promising concept for optimal management of systems with multiple energy carriers. EH has a large potential for realization of energy system models and moving towards sustainable multi-energy systems. Keywords
Energy Hub, Multi-energy systems, Distributed energy resources, Demand side management, Smart energy hubs, Sustainable energy systems.
This paper provides a comprehensive overview of the concepts and different applications of energy hubs in various energy consumption sectors including residential, commercial, industrial, agricultural, and the integration of these systems. The potentials of energy hub is evaluated to solve the main challenges in these consumption sectors with a focus on the benefits earned by integration of the options such as demand side management, distributed energy resources, renewable energy resources, multi-generation systems, storage systems as well as using the smart technologies by introducing the smart energy hubs concept..
Paper Content
Section 2 provides an introduction to the concepts and definition of the energy hub. Section 3 discusses the features and challenges of energy systems in residential, commercial, industrial, and agricultural sectors and evaluates the applications of energy hub as an integrated energy management system in solving challenges in each sector. Section 4 assesses the various issues related to the integration of energy systems in the form of macro energy hubs. Section 5 provides a comprehensive review of the concepts of smart energy systems and smart energy hubs. Section 6 contains the concluding remarks.