Christopher Ripp

M.Sc. Christopher Ripp

Industrial energy management

Research Interest

Field of Research: Industrial energy management, CO2 intensity

Keywords: mulit-modal energy system modelling, carbon intensity of energy, energy conversion, energy storages

Our research goal is the development of methods for further increase the flexibilization of the energy demand, which is one of the most important keys to a successful Energiewende. Therefore, we are focusing on the enhancement of transparency of multi-modal energy systems. We concentrate on the development and optimization of detailed digital replica of complex multi-modal energy related industrial systems and processes. Besides this, we aim for a renewable as possible supply, use and conversion of energy and thereby as climaneutral as possible at minimal costs.

To achieve this we simplify energy systems in such a way that we can solve it by mixed-integer linear programming (MILP) or linear programming (LP). Our whole system analysis is done in our own system modelling and optimization tool (similar to OSeMOSYS or oemof)

Our main research goals can be summarized as followed:

  • Establish the method of the “digital twin“ in context of digitization of energy systems
  • Optimizing the system setup to minimize cost and emissions by adding new technologies or rearrange the use of available ones
  • Uncertainty quantification (to obtain ±XX% cost and/or CO2 emission)
  • Development of a sensitivity analysis for small system constraint changes

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Short Bio

  • Since 2017: PhD student at EINS
  • 2014 - 2017 KONEXUS Consulting Group GmbH, Senior Consultant

    • Leading Projectmanager of strategy and management consulting projects for several german and austrian energy providers

    • Development of dynamic customer, energy consumption and sales models

    • Several other business projects in the energy domain, such as energy procurement, controlling, businessplan development for spin-offs, etc.

  • 2013 Master thesis "Analysis of the electrical energy requirements of the GSI facility" at the TU Darmstadt in cooperation with GSI (Helmholtzentrum für Schwerionenforschung)

  • 2011 - 2013 Master degree in technical physics at the TU Darmstadt

  • 2005 - 2011 Bachelor degree in physics at the TU Darmstadt

Publications

Accessible Modeling of the German Energy Transition: An Open, Compact, and Validated Model

[Journal]
Julia Barbosa; Christopher Ripp; Florian Steinke :
Accessible Modeling of the German Energy Transition: An Open, Compact, and Validated Model.
In: MDPI Energies 14 (23), 2021

Operational Carbon Mitigation Potential of Flexible Multi-Energy Systems: A Case Study

[Conference]
Christopher Ripp; Julia Barbosa; Florian Steinke :
Operational Carbon Mitigation Potential of Flexible Multi-Energy Systems: A Case Study.
In: 2021 IEEE PES Innovative Smart Grid Technologies Conference Europe (ISGT-Europe 2021), virtual Conference, 2021

Multi-modales Echtzeit Energiemonitoring - Multi-modales echtzeit Energiemonitoring als Basis eines digitalen Zwillings des Energiesystems des Campus Lichtwiese der Technischen Universität Darmstadt

[Conference]
Christopher Ripp; Mario Beykirch; Johannes Oltmanns; Florian Steinke :
Multi-modales Echtzeit Energiemonitoring - Multi-modales echtzeit Energiemonitoring als Basis eines digitalen Zwillings des Energiesystems des Campus Lichtwiese der Technischen Universität Darmstadt.
In: Digitalisieren - Sektoren koppeln - Flexibilisieren. Systemische Integration der Bioenergie und weiterer erneuerbarer Energien in Gebäuden & Quartieren, virtual Conference, 2020

Efficient Sensitivity Analysis for MPC Controlled Multimodal Energy Systems

[Conference]
Florian Steinke; Christopher Ripp :
Efficient Sensitivity Analysis for MPC Controlled Multimodal Energy Systems.
In: GMA-Fachausschuss 1.50 "Grundlagen vernetzter Systeme", 2019

Balancing power potential of pools of small-scale units

[Conference]
Jonas Hülsmann; Christopher Ripp; Florian Steinke :
Balancing power potential of pools of small-scale units.
In: 16th International Conference on the European Energy Market, Ljubljana, Slovenia, 2019

Sensitivity analysis of linear programming economic dispatch models

[Conference]
Christopher Ripp; Florian Steinke :
Sensitivity analysis of linear programming economic dispatch models.
In: ETG-Kongress 2019 - Das Gesamtsystem im Fokus der Energiewende, Esslingen am Neckar, Germany, 2019

CO2 reduzieren mit Power-to-Heat: Woher weiß ich wann?

[Conference]
Florian Steinke; Christopher Ripp :
CO2 reduzieren mit Power-to-Heat: Woher weiß ich wann?.
In: 4. Dialogplattform Power-to-Heat (VDE), Berlin, Deutschland, 2018

Modeling Time-dependent CO_2 Intensities in Multi-modal Energy Systems with Storage

[Journal]
Christopher Ripp; Florian Steinke :
Modeling Time-dependent CO_2 Intensities in Multi-modal Energy Systems with Storage.
In: ArXiv e-prints , 2018

A First Shot at Time-Dependent CO2 Intensities in Multi-Modal Energy Systems

[Conference]
Christopher Ripp; Florian Steinke :
A First Shot at Time-Dependent CO2 Intensities in Multi-Modal Energy Systems.
In: 2018 15th International Conference on the European Energy Market (EEM), Lodz, Poland, 2018