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SENIOR DESIGN REVIEW

Modeling Energy System Investment Planning Infrastructure

for the State of Iowa

Advisor / Clients: Dr. James McCalley Venkat Krishnan Joseph Slegers

Team Members: Michael Healy, Deogratius Mpinge, Spenser Mussmann, and Abdelmagid Yousif

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PROJECT GOAL

Our final product will be an interactive public website

which will allow the user to view various aspects of our

current and future infrastructure. The website interaction

will be simple and easy to use for the general public, but

the implementation and results will give detailed and

accurate investment planning for the next 40 years.

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ALTERNATIVE ANALYSIS SOFTWARE

Electric Sectoro NEMSo MARKAL/TIMES

Transportation Sectoro CARVER2 o TRAGIS

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MARKET SURVEY

Investment Planning for State of Iowa for Next Forty Years

Demonstrates Interdependency of Transportation and Electric Generation Sectors

Utilizes Analysis Software Available Only at Iowa State University

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FUNCTIONAL REQUIREMENTS

Obtaining Datao Energy generationo Consumptiono Transportation

Visualization of the Datao Publicly shown on our websiteo Gives visualization of current energy and

transportation infrastructure

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FUNCTIONAL REQUIREMENTS

Visualization of the Data cont.o Will extend the previous groups datao Shown on Iowa map with colored lines, coordinate

locations, and pop out information for each point of interest

Future Analysiso Creates a long term infrastructure plan for the state of

Iowao Uses past and current information including predicted

trends.o Shows a 40 year plan with constraints and input variables

specified by the user

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NON-FUNCTIONAL REQUIREMENTS

Budget limitation o All data collection efforts are limited by a $12,050

budget Must be usable on any computer for a user of any skill

levelo This is done by simple input specifications the user

can manipulate

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INPUT FILE DESCRIPTION

Electric Generationo Coal, Natural Gas, Nuclear, Hydro, Solar, Wind etc.

Electric Transmissiono 115KV, 161KV, 230KV, and 345KV

Transportationo Passenger, Commodity, Railroad, River

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FILE LIST

NETPLAN files include o Capacityo Node Listo Emissionso Life Spano Investment Costso Arc Listo Fuel Type

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ELECTRIC GENERATION

Generation sites of 20MW and up will be modeled

Each power plant will be denoted by a node Nodes are connected with arcs to

transmission nodes and transportation nodes Excel files were created with the necessary

information to run NETPLAN

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CONSTRAINTS/CONSIDERATIONS

Uses GoogleEarth for part of the visualization for input and output fileso GoogleEarth allows easy modeling of Iowa

infrastructure and is free for all users Generation and Transportation Cutoffs

o Unable to include every generation plant, transmission line, or highway

o Generation cutoff – 20MWo Transmission cutoff – 115kV

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CONCEPT SKETCH

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DESIGN PROCESS

.csv data files

Nodes map Created Iowa Data

Our senior design team will collect data of Iowa’s energy infrastructure and transportation. The data will be as points were formatted in Excel spreadsheets.

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DESIGN PROCESS

KML files stored in ISU server

NETPLAN

KML files will stored on ISU’s server ready to read by the Google Earth implementation in our project’s website. Transmissions lines will not display as point, but will mapped out with Photoshop and save as KML file on ISU’s server as well.

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DESIGN PROCESS

NETPLANWebsite

The output will be mainly from NETPLAN and will be in three difference formsVisual in Google Earth, graphic in chart area relationship, and Data table in excel.

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INPUT SPECIFICATION

Input menu will appear from design’s website will allow users to choose different energy Investment scenarios also to run NETPLAN software

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DESIGN SPECIFICATION Languages: Java, HTML, and C++

Software: CPLEX and NETPLAN

Technologies: Google Earth and Graphic User Interface (GUI)

Server: ISU Linux server

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NETPLAN RESULTS

Once NETPLAN runs it will show the projected investment o Displays the resiliency of the system

These are influenced by the users initial specifications

o Displays investment planning and emissionso Output displayed by events

Such as load increases

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TEST PLAN

Create Base Case for Iowa Infrastructureo Current Generation and Transportation

Simulate Investment Strategy for Iowa with Specified Parameters Using NETPLANo Parameters Changeable by User

Load Growth, Emissions, etc.

Display Results on Website

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POTENTIAL RISKS AND MITIGATIONS

Using multiple software and computer language Google Earth map requires Google Earth plug-in to be embedded in the website Finding most recent data Restricted data Working with NESCORE21 research group Using newly developed software NETPLAN

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RESOURSCES AND COST ESTIMATE The software license will cost approximately $4,000 If it include labor hours, there almost 400 hours of work in $20/hour rate that will total of $8,000 Poster $50

Total cost $12,050 ≅ “including Labor”

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PROJECT SCHEDULESpring Semester

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PROJECT SCHEDULEFall Semester

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CURRENT PROJECT STATUS

Base Case/NETPLANo Transmission, Generation, and Transportation files have been

completedo Natural Gas, Generation Investment, and Transportation

Investments are in progresso Passenger Transportation modeling is currently being adapted

into NETPLAN Website Construction

o General website has been createdo GUI for public interaction will be started once base case is

successfully demonstrated

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TASK RESPOSIBILITY AND CONTRIBUTION

Name Task Total Hours

Michael Healy Data development, analysis, and documentation

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Deogratius Mpinge Software design and documentation

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Spenser Mussmann Data development, analysis, and develop investment decision

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Abdelmagid Yousif Software design and develop investment decision

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Total 210

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PLAN FOR NEXT SEMESTER

Writing the codes to run NETPLAN form the website Improve Google Earth map view Proposed solution for long-term (40+ years) energy investment Deliverable: website, documents, and poster

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QUESTIONS?

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REFERENCESSenior design team Dec10_12http://seniord.ece.iastate.edu/dec1012/ Wind picturehttp://www.conserve-energy-future.com/Images/Wind_Energy.jpg Transmission lines picturehttp://www.exponent.com/files/Uploads/Images/Energy/utilities.jpg Plug in car picturehttp://www.ecoautoninja.com/wp-content/uploads/2011/03/plug-in-electric-car-technology.jpg Highway picturehttp://www.faqs.org/photo-dict/photofiles/list/4592/6074highway.jpg Electric train picturehttp://blog.nj.com/njv_editorial_page/2009/04/large_high-speed-train.jpg Power plant picturehttp://coloradoindependent.com/wp-content/uploads/2008/11/south-platte-river-power-plant.jpg

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