Advanced Energy Systems Based on Energy Hub Concept

Energy systems in the past alone were providing consumer's needs, and their management did independently. By industrialization of the lifestyle and high dependence of human societies into energy and on the other hand, a lack of fossil resources, system exploitation seeks to use multi-carrier energy to meet the needs of their consumer's needs. Therefore, the use of multi-carrier systems with the advancement of technology became possible to increase the reliability of the system in the presence of different energy sources. Of course, the critical and challenging issue in it is the way of managing these systems on a large scale. The concept of an energy hub, which is like a virtual box including production, conversion, storage, and consumption of various carriers, has been introduced and the high potential for the operation of multi-carrier systems and optimal management of them possess. This chapter aims to introduce a comprehensive energy hub and its application in the management of multi-carrier systems and express its advantages in preserving the existing resources for posterity alongside the increasing demand for consumers with the lowest cost of operation without limitation its size. Energy hub is used in various sectors such as commercial, industrial, and even agricultural, and can integrate with the integration of these small network hubs from Micro Hub, which are called Macro hub. Moreover, the management of these hubs has dealt with detail.