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Technical and Economical Investigation of Renewable Energy Sources for Supplying Offshore Oil production Facilities at Gulf of Suez Area

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Last updated: 23 Jan 2023

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Electrical

Abstract

The Gulf of Suez is highly susceptible to economic and energy security due to the heavy need for imported fossil fuels. The energy produced from fossil fuels causes serious environmental pollution. So, it is important to find other clean sources of energy for stabilizing the released amount of carbon dioxide. Gulf of Suez has the potential to develop clean Solar Photovoltaic (PV) and wind systems to improve economic and environmental performance. This paper proposes a combination of floating solar panels (FSP) and offshore wind turbines to solve the main critical issues, such as the land area required for a large number of cells and the space required for wind turbines. In addition to their good economical and environmental benefits. A simplified model is provided to investigate the replacement of traditional generating units (Diesel and Gas operated) supplying offshore oil production field facilities at the Gulf of Suez area with a mix of renewable resources. The load flow analysis is carried out for the model and the cost is calculated and compared for four schemas, the traditional generating, Wind-Gas, PV-Gas, and PV-Wind-Gas hybrid system. From the techno-economic analysis and comparing environmental benefits, floating solar systems and offshore wind turbines can provide a good solution to the existing problems of energy needs with environmental impacts considered.

DOI

10.21608/erjeng.2021.73618.1010

Keywords

solar energy, Floating Solar Panels, Techno-economic analysis, Offshore wind turbine, Gulf of Suez

Authors

First Name

Mohamed

Last Name

El-Nemr

MiddleName

K.

Affiliation

Electrical Power and Machines Engineering, Faculty of Engineering, Tanta University

Email

melnemr@f-eng.tanta.edu.eg

City

Tanta

Orcid

0000-0001-7103-6666

First Name

Belal

Last Name

Farrag

MiddleName

S.

Affiliation

Offshore Operations Engineer, Offshore Oil and Gas fields, Cairo, EGYPT

Email

belal.farrag@yahoo.com

City

Tanta

Orcid

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First Name

Sameer

Last Name

Dawood

MiddleName

M.

Affiliation

Electrical Power and Machines Engineering Department, Faculty of Engineering, Tanta University

Email

sameer_dawood@f-eng.tanta.edu.eg

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Tanta

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Volume

5

Article Issue

2

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24404

Issue Date

2021-06-01

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2021-05-04

Publish Date

2021-06-01

Page Start

18

Page End

25

Print ISSN

2356-9441

Online ISSN

2735-4873

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1,605

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Publication Title

Journal of Engineering Research

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https://erjeng.journals.ekb.eg/

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23 Jan 2023