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Research on the state-of-the-art of efficient and ultra-clean ammonia combustion: From combustion kinetics to engine applications
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Applied Energy Pub Date : 2025-04-15 DOI: 10.1016/j.apenergy.2025.125886
Jinhe Zhang, Ahmed Mohammed Elbanna, Jizhen Zhu, Yong Qian, Xingcai Lu
{"title":"Research on the state-of-the-art of efficient and ultra-clean ammonia combustion: From combustion kinetics to engine applications","authors":"Jinhe Zhang,&nbsp;Ahmed Mohammed Elbanna,&nbsp;Jizhen Zhu,&nbsp;Yong Qian,&nbsp;Xingcai Lu","doi":"10.1016/j.apenergy.2025.125886","DOIUrl":"10.1016/j.apenergy.2025.125886","url":null,"abstract":"<div><div>In the context of a low-carbon economy, given the current technological landscape, relying only on direct electrification for the future energy system is both technically challenging and insufficient, particularly in the heavy transportation sector. This creates a significant demand for carbon-neutral alternatives fuels. Ammonia (NH<sub>3</sub>) represents itself as a potential option for decarbonization, attracting great attention of combustion community. Although ammonia is regarded as a promising zero-carbon fuel, its combustion characteristics still limit its practical application in energy transition. The objective of the current work is highlighting the current state-of-the-art as well as the challenges that still remain. The scope of this work spans from the fundamental characteristics and reaction kinetics of ammonia combustion, to its applications in internal combustion engines (ICEs). Current work is divided into four main parts. The first section proposes the potential of ammonia as a fuel and its current research status. The second part covers the fundamental combustion characteristics and reaction kinetics of ammonia co-combustion with other carbon-neutral fuels; The third part discusses its application in ICEs as a fuel, in which research on optical engines is highlighted, helping provide a deeper understanding of flame formation and propagation in cylinder. In the fourth section, as a highlight, the application of advanced artificial intelligence (AI) algorithms in combustion science has been emphasized. <em>Co</em>-combustion of ammonia and carbon-neutral fuels has the potential to achieve real zero-carbon emissions in the entire life cycle. At the fundamental combustion characteristics level, the addition of combustion enhancer can improve laminar flame speed (LFS) and ignition delay time (IDT), greatly promoting ammonia combustion. At the kinetics level, key reaction pathways, interactions between C<img>N components and mechanisms of NO<sub>x</sub>/soot formation have been revealed. At engine applications level, a deeper understanding of engine performances and emission characteristics can be obtained according to the fundamental research above. From micro-level combustion kinetics to macro-level engine applications, it is hoped that the current work contributes to a comprehensive understanding of key technologies of ammonia combustion and its applications in the transportation sector.</div></div>","PeriodicalId":246,"journal":{"name":"Applied Energy","volume":"391 ","pages":"Article 125886"},"PeriodicalIF":10.1,"publicationDate":"2025-04-15","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"143829080","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":1,"RegionCategory":"工程技术","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
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A review of recent Progress on social inequality impacts of low-carbon energy transitions 低碳能源转型对社会不平等影响的最新进展回顾
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Applied Energy Pub Date : 2025-04-15 DOI: 10.1016/j.apenergy.2025.125926
Elin May , Ruiyao Li , Jianxiang Shen , Wenjia Cai , Annela Anger-Kraavi
{"title":"A review of recent Progress on social inequality impacts of low-carbon energy transitions","authors":"Elin May ,&nbsp;Ruiyao Li ,&nbsp;Jianxiang Shen ,&nbsp;Wenjia Cai ,&nbsp;Annela Anger-Kraavi","doi":"10.1016/j.apenergy.2025.125926","DOIUrl":"10.1016/j.apenergy.2025.125926","url":null,"abstract":"<div><div>The Paris Agreement set, in response to the current climate crisis, a long-term temperature target to stimulate ambitious mitigative action across all countries. The need to ensure equality, or a just transition, throughout such unprecedented transformations towards low-carbon economies has been attracting increasing attention in recent years. However, there remains great uncertainty in the potential inequality impacts of transitioning to low-carbon energy sources (e.g., solar, wind, biofuels). This review examines academic literature on low-carbon energy transitions across five years (2019–2023) - focusing on employment, income, health, and gender inequalities - to identify common avenues through which inequalities arise, and understand how policy can be designed to avoid and/or mitigate negative outcomes. In addition, it explores how relevant literature into the inequality impacts of low-carbon energy transitions has evolved. The synthesis shows that recent literature has expanded in scope and granularity, with research increasingly focused on multiple dimensions of inequality at finer scales, providing a greater understanding of the underlying mechanisms stimulating negative outcomes, as well as on how different types of inequalities interact with one another and reinforce adverse side-effects. Despite inequality outcomes presenting in different ways, all inequalities reviewed stem from, and are dependent upon, a multitude of social, cultural, economic, political, geographical, and technological factors. Inequality outcomes frequently compound with pre-existing social inequalities, and risk undermining the possibility of achieving a just transition. However, enhanced disaggregated data is still required to understand the full range of potential inequality impacts and identify the best remediation strategies to guide a just energy transition.</div></div>","PeriodicalId":246,"journal":{"name":"Applied Energy","volume":"391 ","pages":"Article 125926"},"PeriodicalIF":10.1,"publicationDate":"2025-04-15","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"143828079","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":1,"RegionCategory":"工程技术","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
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Optimization of sail-hybrid electric power system for ships considering correlated environmental uncertainties 考虑相关环境不确定性的船舶风帆-混合动力电力系统的优化
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Applied Energy Pub Date : 2025-04-15 DOI: 10.1016/j.apenergy.2025.125862
Jianyun Zhu , Li Chen , Rui Miao
{"title":"Optimization of sail-hybrid electric power system for ships considering correlated environmental uncertainties","authors":"Jianyun Zhu ,&nbsp;Li Chen ,&nbsp;Rui Miao","doi":"10.1016/j.apenergy.2025.125862","DOIUrl":"10.1016/j.apenergy.2025.125862","url":null,"abstract":"<div><div>The sail-hybrid electric power system (sail-HEPS) has gained significant attention in the maritime industry as an eco-friendly solution to reduce greenhouse gas (GHG) emissions. The key to successful implementation of sail-HEPS lies in the integrated optimal sizing to effectively leverage the advantages of multiple energy sources. Considering sail-HEPS is constantly influenced by multiple uncertain and correlated factors in the environment, existing deterministic optimization methods based on single scenario are inadequate to ensure optimal performance of the system throughout its lifecycle. To address this issue, this study proposes a probabilistic optimization method that integrates multiple energy sources and considers correlated uncertainties. A vine copula method is employed to model the interdependencies among wave direction, significant wave height, wave period, wind direction, and wind speed. The design space exploration and multiple criteria decision making are performed with multi-objective particle swarm optimization (MOPSO) algorithm and the technique for order preference by similarity to an ideal solution (TOPSIS). A case study of a 20-m yacht in the South China Sea validates the proposed method, demonstrating its superiority over deterministic optimization and quasi-probabilistic optimization, which disregards the correlation among environmental variables. Furthermore, it is observed that there is no significant difference in the performance of the Pareto designs obtained from deterministic optimization and quasi-probabilistic optimization when correlated uncertainties are introduced, highlighting the importance of considering the correlation of the uncertainties.</div></div>","PeriodicalId":246,"journal":{"name":"Applied Energy","volume":"391 ","pages":"Article 125862"},"PeriodicalIF":10.1,"publicationDate":"2025-04-15","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"143828080","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":1,"RegionCategory":"工程技术","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
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Decision-making and cost models of generation company agents for supporting future electricity market mechanism design based on agent-based simulation 基于代理模拟的发电公司代理决策和成本模型,为未来电力市场机制设计提供支持
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Applied Energy Pub Date : 2025-04-14 DOI: 10.1016/j.apenergy.2025.125881
Zhanhua Pan, Zhaoxia Jing
{"title":"Decision-making and cost models of generation company agents for supporting future electricity market mechanism design based on agent-based simulation","authors":"Zhanhua Pan,&nbsp;Zhaoxia Jing","doi":"10.1016/j.apenergy.2025.125881","DOIUrl":"10.1016/j.apenergy.2025.125881","url":null,"abstract":"<div><div>The large-scale surge in renewable energy installations has transformed the capacity mix of power systems and the roles of generation companies (GENCOs). For example, some thermal generators are now operated at low output levels to ensure the generation capacity and ramping capability of the power system. As a result, the nonlinear characteristics of GENCOs’ marginal generation costs have gradually become prominent, rendering some previously linear assumption-based models obsolete. It is essential to reexamine the decision-making and cost models of GENCOs to support the equilibrium solution and mechanism design of the electricity market during this transition. This paper analyzes the impact of different cost model assumptions on GENCOs, thereby examining the relationship between GENCOs’ bidding models and cost models. We propose standardized expressions for GENCOs’ linear bidding models and piecewise step bidding models in multi-agent simulations of the electricity market. The applicability of different bidding models is analyzed. To address the issue of overly compressed decision space for GENCOs in previous studies, we propose a Multi-worker decision model based on (deep) reinforcement learning. This allows the decision space of GENCOs’ piecewise step bidding to fully cover the bidding space in actual market rules. Finally, various electricity market experiments based on multi-agent simulations are conducted. On the one hand, our proposed GENCOs decision model more effectively reproduces GENCOs’ behavior in actual electricity markets. On the other hand, using real mechanism design as an example, previous GENCOs models may lead to incorrect conclusions in simulations. The decision model proposed in this paper, employing piecewise step bidding and polynomial cost functions, makes the simulation results more consistent with actual rules, thereby effectively supporting future-proof market design.</div></div>","PeriodicalId":246,"journal":{"name":"Applied Energy","volume":"391 ","pages":""},"PeriodicalIF":10.1,"publicationDate":"2025-04-14","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"143825380","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":1,"RegionCategory":"工程技术","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
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Effects of novel nonlinear flow channels inspired by classical mathematical function on the output performance and low-grade heat recovery efficiency of thermally regenerative ammonia-based flow battery
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Applied Energy Pub Date : 2025-04-14 DOI: 10.1016/j.apenergy.2025.125917
Jiebo Yang , Qinghua Yu , Yu Lei , Sheng Chen , Yang Yu , Fuwu Yan
{"title":"Effects of novel nonlinear flow channels inspired by classical mathematical function on the output performance and low-grade heat recovery efficiency of thermally regenerative ammonia-based flow battery","authors":"Jiebo Yang ,&nbsp;Qinghua Yu ,&nbsp;Yu Lei ,&nbsp;Sheng Chen ,&nbsp;Yang Yu ,&nbsp;Fuwu Yan","doi":"10.1016/j.apenergy.2025.125917","DOIUrl":"10.1016/j.apenergy.2025.125917","url":null,"abstract":"<div><div>In addressing the challenges of enhancing the output performance and low-grade waste heat recovery efficiency of thermally regenerative ammonia-based flow battery (TRAFB), this study introduces four novel nonlinear flow channels: the Hyperbolic tangent function flow channel (HTF-FC), Elliptic function flow channel (EF-FC) Quadratic function flow channel (QF-FC), and Exponential function flow channel (ExF-FC). These flow channel designs are inspired by classical mathematical function curves, enabling more targeted mass transfer enhancement based on species distribution. Multiple quantitative metrics are employed to evaluate the effects of these nonlinear structures on cross-scale mass transfer, reactant distribution, power output, and thermoelectric conversion efficiency under both Forward Flow mode (FF mode) and Reverse Flow mode (RF mode). The findings reveal that optimizing mass transfer at the electrode interface of the channel end is more critical for enhancing performance in TRAFB. The overall performance of the nonlinear flow channels in FF mode is superior to that in RF mode, yet both outperform the conventional straight channel (S-FC), with the ExF-FC showing the best performance and the HTF-FC the least. The ExF-FC exhibits the highest overall mass transfer efficiency and uniformity of active species in the electrode region, and its nonlinear contraction zone at the channel tail induces a significant acceleration effect, increasing the Cu<sup>2+</sup> flux by ∼39.13 times in the reactant-starved region. When the inlet flow rate is 1 mL/min, the HTF-FC, QF-FC, EF-FC, and ExF-FC can enhance the peak power density by up to ∼1.30 %, ∼11.52 %, ∼54.67 %, and ∼ 80.65 %, respectively, compared to the S-FC, and when the inlet flow rate is increased to 3.8 mL/min, these enhancements reach ∼1.62 %, ∼42.60 %, ∼101.38 %, and ∼ 142.84 %, respectively. Moreover, the nonlinear channels significantly improve the energy storage capacity and waste heat recovery performance of TRAFB, particularly at high current densities. When the current density is 350 A/m<sup>2</sup>, at an inlet flow rate of 1 mL/min, the ExF-FC can enhance the electrical capacity and thermoelectric conversion efficiency by ∼2.81 times and ∼ 5.41 times, respectively, compared to the S-FC, and at an inlet flow rate of 3.8 mL/min, these increases are ∼1.11 times and ∼ 2.98 times, respectively.</div></div>","PeriodicalId":246,"journal":{"name":"Applied Energy","volume":"391 ","pages":"Article 125917"},"PeriodicalIF":10.1,"publicationDate":"2025-04-14","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"143825399","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":1,"RegionCategory":"工程技术","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
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Development of a physics-informed coarse-mesh method and applications to the thermohydraulic analysis of rod bundles with mixing vane spacers
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Applied Energy Pub Date : 2025-04-14 DOI: 10.1016/j.apenergy.2025.125847
Guanqun Ding , Yao Xiao , Hanyang Gu
{"title":"Development of a physics-informed coarse-mesh method and applications to the thermohydraulic analysis of rod bundles with mixing vane spacers","authors":"Guanqun Ding ,&nbsp;Yao Xiao ,&nbsp;Hanyang Gu","doi":"10.1016/j.apenergy.2025.125847","DOIUrl":"10.1016/j.apenergy.2025.125847","url":null,"abstract":"<div><div>The efficient and accurate analysis of fluid flow and heat transfer in large-scale complex tube bundle structures is of great significance for the optimal design of energy systems. To address this challenge, this paper proposes a physics-informed coarse-mesh method (PICM). In a representative application involving thermohydraulic analysis of reactor fuel rod bundles with mixing-vane spacers, this method reduces the computational time by approximately three orders of magnitude while maintaining accuracy. In detail, the PICM method avoids the explicit modeling of detailed structures such as spacers and employs coarse meshes to capture the main geometric features of tube bundles. The wall source terms are corrected by empirical correlations based on lumped parameters. The spacer-induced pressure loss and wall heat transfer enhancement are implicitly simulated by additional models. The virtual momentum source terms are adopted to reproduce the flow-sweeping effects. Experimental validation confirms that the PICM method exhibits excellent geometric adaptability, enabling efficient and accurate simulations for various tube bundle structures. This research offers an efficient numerical analysis method for large-scale complex tube bundles in energy systems and provides a new direction for the refinement development of reactor subchannel analysis.</div></div>","PeriodicalId":246,"journal":{"name":"Applied Energy","volume":"391 ","pages":""},"PeriodicalIF":10.1,"publicationDate":"2025-04-14","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"143825011","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":1,"RegionCategory":"工程技术","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
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Strategic bidding with price-quantity pairs based on deep reinforcement learning considering competitors' behaviors
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Applied Energy Pub Date : 2025-04-14 DOI: 10.1016/j.apenergy.2025.125874
Fei Hu , Yong Zhao , Yaowen Yu , Changshun Zhang , Yicheng Lian , Cheng Huang , Yuanzheng Li
{"title":"Strategic bidding with price-quantity pairs based on deep reinforcement learning considering competitors' behaviors","authors":"Fei Hu ,&nbsp;Yong Zhao ,&nbsp;Yaowen Yu ,&nbsp;Changshun Zhang ,&nbsp;Yicheng Lian ,&nbsp;Cheng Huang ,&nbsp;Yuanzheng Li","doi":"10.1016/j.apenergy.2025.125874","DOIUrl":"10.1016/j.apenergy.2025.125874","url":null,"abstract":"<div><div>In a smart electricity market, self-interested market participants may leverage a large amount of market data to bid strategically to maximize their profits. However, the existing studies in strategic bidding often ignore competitors' bidding behaviors and only consider strategic actions on prices without quantities. To bridge the gap, this paper develops a novel deep reinforcement learning-based framework to model and solve the strategic bidding problem of a producer. To capture competitors' historical bidding behaviors in the market environment, their demand-bid mappings are established based on a data-driven method combining K-medoids clustering and a deep neural network. To make full use of the bidding action space and increase the profit of the strategic producer, a bilevel optimization model considering bids in price-quantity pairs is formulated. To efficiently solve the problem with competitors' bidding behaviors, a twin delayed deep deterministic policy gradient-based algorithm is developed. Case studies on the IEEE 57-bus system show that the proposed framework obtains a 27.37 % higher expected value and a 47.60 % lower standard deviation of the profit compared to the existing approach, demonstrating its profitability and robustness under market dynamics. Another case on the IEEE 118-bus test system achieves a 33.34 % increase in the expected profit, further validating the advantages in profitability. These cases together demonstrate the effectiveness and scalability of our approach in systems of different sizes, as well as its potential application to strategic bidding in smart electricity markets.</div></div>","PeriodicalId":246,"journal":{"name":"Applied Energy","volume":"391 ","pages":""},"PeriodicalIF":10.1,"publicationDate":"2025-04-14","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"143825012","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":1,"RegionCategory":"工程技术","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
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Energy-efficient greenhouse climate control using Gaussian process-based stochastic model predictive control 利用基于高斯过程的随机模型预测控制实现节能温室气候控制
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Applied Energy Pub Date : 2025-04-14 DOI: 10.1016/j.apenergy.2025.125841
Jinsung Kim , Fengqi You
{"title":"Energy-efficient greenhouse climate control using Gaussian process-based stochastic model predictive control","authors":"Jinsung Kim ,&nbsp;Fengqi You","doi":"10.1016/j.apenergy.2025.125841","DOIUrl":"10.1016/j.apenergy.2025.125841","url":null,"abstract":"<div><div>This paper proposes a Gaussian process-based stochastic model predictive control (GP-SMPC) framework for energy-efficient greenhouse climate control. In greenhouse systems, uncertainties arise from variations in crop growth rates and fluctuations in outdoor weather conditions, leading to suboptimal energy usage and increased operational costs. By incorporating a Gaussian process regression (GPR) model, the framework probabilistically captures uncertainties arising from crop growth variations and fluctuating outdoor weather conditions, enhancing robustness and efficiency. An online learning algorithm further improves the generalizability of the GPR model by capturing real-time observations, preventing overfitting problems. Numerical experiments using real-world greenhouse data demonstrate the significant energy-saving potential of the proposed framework. Compared to nonlinear MPC, the GP-SMPC framework achieves tracking error reductions of up to 67 % during the winter and 48 % in spring. Moreover, it reduces energy and CO<sub>2</sub> costs by up to 51.4 % during the winter season and 40 % during the spring season, minimizing resource wastage and operational inefficiencies. By optimizing resource usage while maintaining optimal growing conditions, the GP-SMPC framework provides a robust and sustainable solution for greenhouse climate control. This enhances the economic viability of high-tech food production systems.</div></div>","PeriodicalId":246,"journal":{"name":"Applied Energy","volume":"391 ","pages":"Article 125841"},"PeriodicalIF":10.1,"publicationDate":"2025-04-14","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"143829076","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":1,"RegionCategory":"工程技术","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
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Mixed strategy Nash equilibrium analysis in real-time pricing and demand response for future smart retail market 未来智能零售市场实时定价和需求响应中的混合策略纳什均衡分析
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Applied Energy Pub Date : 2025-04-14 DOI: 10.1016/j.apenergy.2025.125815
Ze Hu , Ziqing Zhu , Xiang Wei , Ka Wing Chan , Siqi Bu
{"title":"Mixed strategy Nash equilibrium analysis in real-time pricing and demand response for future smart retail market","authors":"Ze Hu ,&nbsp;Ziqing Zhu ,&nbsp;Xiang Wei ,&nbsp;Ka Wing Chan ,&nbsp;Siqi Bu","doi":"10.1016/j.apenergy.2025.125815","DOIUrl":"10.1016/j.apenergy.2025.125815","url":null,"abstract":"<div><div>Real-time pricing and demand response (RTP-DR) is a key problem for profit-maximizing and policy-making in the deregulated retail electricity market (REM). However, previous studies overlooked the non-convexity and multi-equilibria caused by the network constraints and the temporally-related non-linear power consumption characteristics of end-users (EUs) in a privacy-protected environment. This paper employs mixed strategy Nash equilibrium (MSNE) to analyze the multiple equilibria in the non-convex game of the RTP-DR problem, providing a comprehensive view of the potential transaction results. A novel multi-agent Q-learning algorithm is developed to estimate subgame perfect equilibrium (SPE) in the proposed game. As a multi-agent reinforcement learning (MARL) algorithm, it enables players in the game to be rational “agents” that learn from “trial and error” to make optimal decisions across time periods. Moreover, the proposed algorithm has a bi-level structure and adopts probability distributions to denote Q-values, representing the belief in environmental response. Through validation on a Northern Illinois utility dataset, our proposed approach demonstrates notable advantages over benchmark algorithms. Specifically, it provides more profitable pricing decisions for monopoly retailers in REM, leading to strategic outcomes for EUs. The numerical results also find that multiple optimal pricing decisions over a day exist simultaneously by providing almost identical profits to the retailer, while leading to different energy consumption patterns and also significant differences in total energy usage on the demand side.</div></div>","PeriodicalId":246,"journal":{"name":"Applied Energy","volume":"391 ","pages":"Article 125815"},"PeriodicalIF":10.1,"publicationDate":"2025-04-14","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"143829077","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":1,"RegionCategory":"工程技术","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
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Feasibility assessment of e-methanol value chains: Temporal and regional renewable energy, costs, and climate impacts
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Applied Energy Pub Date : 2025-04-13 DOI: 10.1016/j.apenergy.2025.125887
Jani Sillman , Antti Ylä-Kujala , Jaakko Hyypiä , Timo Kärri , Mari Tuomaala , Risto Soukka
{"title":"Feasibility assessment of e-methanol value chains: Temporal and regional renewable energy, costs, and climate impacts","authors":"Jani Sillman ,&nbsp;Antti Ylä-Kujala ,&nbsp;Jaakko Hyypiä ,&nbsp;Timo Kärri ,&nbsp;Mari Tuomaala ,&nbsp;Risto Soukka","doi":"10.1016/j.apenergy.2025.125887","DOIUrl":"10.1016/j.apenergy.2025.125887","url":null,"abstract":"<div><div>A power-to-X economy can provide low-carbon alternatives to a fossil-based economy, thereby mitigating climate change. <em>E</em>-methanol is a potential alternative but is currently not economically feasible, mainly due to the cost of hydrogen production. Other factors impacting feasibility include the source of carbon dioxide, storage, investment time, capital cost and regulation. Furthermore, multiple industrial operators need to establish a power-to-X value chain, all seeking profitable business opportunities. A cross-disciplinary study was conducted to analyse the influence of these different factors on economic and environmental feasibility. Dynamic modelling was used to optimize e-methanol production based on variable renewable energy generation. Life cycle assessment and costing were used to compare the economic and environmental sustainability of the studied value chains. Over 30-years, the discounted net cash flow of a value chain can become profitable with sufficiently low electricity prices (less than 37€/MWh) and considerable investment subsidies for hydrogen producer. Similar profitability can be achieved with the electricity price given and without subsidies when the weighted average cost of capital is low (5 %). Therefore, hydrogen producers may face challenges in generating profit; highlighting the need for profit-sharing in the value chain and/or subsidies. As capital expenditure for certain technologies is predicted to decline, gradually increasing the production capacity with timed investments is preferable. However, trade-offs may arise in climate change mitigation if investments in cleaner alternatives are delayed.</div></div>","PeriodicalId":246,"journal":{"name":"Applied Energy","volume":"391 ","pages":"Article 125887"},"PeriodicalIF":10.1,"publicationDate":"2025-04-13","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"143823543","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":1,"RegionCategory":"工程技术","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
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