Reuse of wasted thermal energy in power plants for agricultural crops by means of multi-agent approach

There is a wide variety of industrial processes that waste a great deal of energy. These processes have been optimized to a large extent and work is continuing to prevent this energy from being wasted. One of the activities in which the greatest amount of energy is wasted occurs in power plants during power generation processes. This energy can be used to cover the energy needs of other activities, so that there is no additional expense in obtaining this energy. In order to be able to reuse this energy, it is necessary to deploy an infrastructure that allows the energy to be channeled to the target location, while monitoring and managing the amount of energy to be reused according to the needs of the secondary activity at any given time. Agricultural activities in greenhouses often require large amounts of energy to recreate the climatic conditions that crops need. An agent based system has been developed that manages energy and allows its reuse. This paper presents the results obtained from the simulation of a system that allows a power plant to reuse energy and how the agents that make up the system use communication with sensors and actuators and the use of data analysis algorithms to allow this energy to be used in greenhouses, providing a reduction in the energy they need without the system.