Electric Power ›› 2022, Vol. 55 ›› Issue (6): 154-160,171.DOI: 10.11930/j.issn.1004-9649.202104079

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Load Reduction Potential of Tea Production Energy System Based on Transcritical CO2 Heat Pump

ZHOU Anren1, WANG Jianrong1, MA Zhiquan2, LI Weilin3   

  1. 1. State Grid Power Supply Co., Ltd. of Zhejiang Changxing, Huzhou 313100, China;
    2. Electric Power Research Institute of State Grid Zhejiang Electric Power Co., Ltd., Hangzhou 310014, China;
    3. School of Civil Engineering, Zhengzhou University, Zhengzhou 450001, China
  • Received:2021-01-05 Revised:2022-03-04 Online:2022-06-28 Published:2022-06-18
  • Supported by:
    This work is supported by Science and Technology Project of SGCC (Integrated Optimization Methodology Research and Demonstration Project Construction of Rural Electrification, No.5400-202025208A-0-0-00).

Abstract: The fossil energy equipment in rural industry has been gradually replaced by electric energy technologies, which, however, causes increasing fluctuation of rural power load and concentrated high load in some periods. In order to solve the above-said problem, the low-grade clean energy has been applied to tea production in rural areas, and the transcritical CO2 heat pump tea drying technology is proposed according to the technical requirements of the whole-process tea drying. Taking a tea production village for a case study, an analysis is made on the annual daily power consumption and the daily load for tea production in its representative village. The results show that the load can be reduced to 39.6%~46.8% of the original load after using CO2 heat pump tea drying, and the ratio of peak load to normal load can decrease from 13.6 to 5.4~6.2. The application of transcritical CO2 heat pump in production of farm produce can effectively relieve the power supply pressure in rural areas.

Key words: rural power grid, clean energy utilization, load reduction, heat pump tea drying technology, case study