Be-Safe - Reliable design of industrial power systems with uncertain input data

To ensure a reliable energy supply, high safety margins are added to the expected maximum loads during the design phase of industrial energy supply systems and individual plants are planned redundantly. A particularly high requirement applies to energy systems with thermal demand (heating, cooling, steam), since the supply cannot be provided by external sources such as the power grid. The resulting conservative design variant is rarely efficient and leads to unnecessary costs and CO2 emissions. Nevertheless, it is used in practice because suitable tools for an individual and detailed design are missing, or because such a planning process does not pay off, especially for medium-sized companies.

The aim of the Be-Safe project is to develop methods for the optimal design of energy supply systems for industrial processes with high thermal loads based on uncertain input data and unpredictable plant failures. The methods are to generate valid thermal load profiles for a power system individually from small and incomplete data sets. Based on these load profiles, the methods can be used to evaluate and mathematically optimize the supply reliability of a power system.