Application of a Hybrid Renewable Underwater Compressed Air Energy Storage System for an Offshore Platform in Egypt | ||||
| Port-Said Engineering Research Journal | ||||
| Articles in Press, Accepted Manuscript, Available Online from 07 July 2025 | ||||
| Document Type: Original Article | ||||
| DOI: 10.21608/pserj.2025.373016.1401 | ||||
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| Authors | ||||
Haidy Ahmed soliman  1; Ameen Bassam2; Adel Tawfik2; El-Sayed Hegazy2
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| 1Department of Naval Architecture and Marine Engineering , Faculty of Engineering, Port Said university, Port Fouad, Egypt | ||||
| 2Department of Naval Architecture and Marine Engineering, Faculty of Engineering, Port Said University, Port Fouad, Egypt | ||||
| Abstract | ||||
| For more sustainable and efficient offshore operation, renewable energy utilization has gained traction as an effective tool towards sustainability in the Oil & Gas (O&G) industry. This issue is of growing interest in Egypt owing to the enormous potentials of petroleum exploration as well as renewable energy resources. Therefore, Egypt intensifies the efforts of exploring O&G besides increasing the production of renewable energy to become a regional hub of renewable energy. The potential of renewable energy systems can be further promoted by hybridizing these systems with energy storage. Due to their high energy capacity, long lifetime, and low environmental impact and operational costs, compressed air energy storage (CAES) systems are increasing in popularity for energy storage. The CAES system relies on storing energy in the form of compressed air inside a vessel. In this study, a specific type of CAES is proposed with an underwater vessel. This type is known as underwater compressed air energy storage (UW-CAES). The aim of this research is to introduce the conceptual design of an UW-CAES system hybridized with wind turbine and gas turbines for an O&G offshore Platform in Egypt. It follows that the proposed hybrid system is mathematically modeled, and MATLAB/Simulink environment is used to simulate its performance. Considering one year of operation, the results indicate that the proposed hybrid system has lower fuel consumption and emissions by 14% compared with the conventional power system of the platform. Therefore, detailed and comprehensive operational and economic study are required for optimal operation and decision-making. | ||||
| Keywords | ||||
| Underwater Compressed Air Energy Storage; Wind Energy; Oil &; Gas Offshore Platform; Egypt; MATLAB/Simulink | ||||
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