FEDER HN0005657 - UNIVERSITY OF ROUEN NORMANDY - AMED
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UNIVERSITE DE ROUEN-NORMANDIE
AMED (Multidisciplinary Analysis of Domino Effects) is a structuring project at the regional level which develops a prospective multidisciplinary approach consistent with energy issues and future industrial developments in Normandy. The coupling of renewable electrical energy (ENR) from wind turbines (off and on shore) with nuclear production and the different fossil sources (coal, gas, oil) constitutes a complex whole with very varied dynamics and constraints to which are added the numerous sources of production by cogeneration and others energy recovery. It appears that power cuts due to random phenomena (natural causes, accidents, loss of control, etc.) can have cascading consequences on Norman industrial parks as well as on electricity transmission. The overall analysis of the operation of such a system in degraded mode, in non-operability, or even in phases of resilience, is crucial. It is necessary to measure the impact of these events, in particular on industrial parks and to study different scenarios causing the ungovernability or loss of control of sensitive systems. With the help of a specialist in domino effects, Professor Valerio Cozzani (DICAM from Bologna [Italy] world-renowned expert, more than 185 articles of rank A, Hirsch index higher 29), the AMED project was initiated. It concerns the study of domino effects in the context of mixed electricity supply (fossil and renewable). This theme emerged as a subject of interest, especially when considering the vulnerability of regional industrial parks after the multiple incidents of July 2015, depriving more than 150,000 homes of electricity and forcing 1,000 Renault employees into confinement. To develop the tools and methods, target processes were chosen in relation to future industrial developments in Normandy. The first target concerns processes using biomass as raw materials. Indeed, the reduction of fossil resources, environmental problems, global warming and the desire for independence from countries exporting fossil or nuclear energies are the various factors which favor the development of these processes. The second (linked to the first) is the chemical storage of electrical overproduction which in a context of decarbonation of human activities is a promising route.
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