The research includes analyses of individual technologies for the production and storage of electricity and heat/cooling, as well as analyses of complex intelligent energy systems (Smart Energy Systems), such as energy systems such as CB KEZO in Jabłonno, companies and clusters of energy, micro generation units in co/trigeneration systems, photovoltaic farms with energy storage, storage of electricity in micronets, long-term heat storage processes and heat exchange processes in microchannel exchangers.
One of the main research activities is energy transformation planning, decarbonisation of the energy and heating sector, energy management technologies to optimise the production and storage of electricity and heat/cold in micro intelligent networks, and the implementation of clean transport.
Mainly infrastructure is used to achieve these objectives KEZO Research Centre (Energy and Renewable Sources Conversion) in Jablynna. The research team of the plant has developed facilities for the application of various energy management, storage and production technologies, including cogeneration and renewable energy sources.
KEZO-PAN Center in Jabłonno
KEZO laboratories are equipped with various technologies for generating electricity, heat and cooling using gaseous fuels and biomass. The system integrates several cogeneration systems (from 1kWe to 100kWe - Stirling engines, fuel cell, gas engines, microturbines), CHP gas device 30kWe, 80kWh; 2 absorption chillers for the production of ice water from solar energy and waste heat; solar collectors, various PV technologies (about 200kWe) and wind turbines. The KEZO is equipped with electric vehicle charging stations including a fast and two-way V2G (Vehicle to Grid) station. The use of V2G technology examines the possibility of using electric vehicles as mobile energy storage facilities. KEZO develops a micronetwork technology consisting of local energy sources and various types of electricity storage.
All above systems are connected and monitored by an energy management system that forms part of the local Intelligent Energy System. The Intelligent Energy System can be defined as a system where electricity, heat and fuel streams are analysed simultaneously, in order to identify synergies between them and achieve an optimal solution for each single sector and for the entire energy system. The work carried out at KEZO is aimed at research and development in the area of the Intelligent Energy System on a macro scale (country, municipality, town, village) and micro (public utility building, office building, hospital, residential house) including the integration of RES, EV and electricity and heat storage.
The work carried out at the plant is geared towards practical application in industry and the economy, as confirmed by the initiated and coordinated national and international projects financed by the EEA Funds and the H2020 programme in the fields of hybrid energy storage, decarbonisation of heating systems, energy management systems or the construction of local "energy islands" carried out by research groups from the plant.