Voltage dip and long duration interruption (LDI) are among the most costly power quality phenomena. In this study, a Monte-Carlo based approach is proposed to consider the cost of sensitive loads disruption caused by ...
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Voltage dip and long duration interruption (LDI) are among the most costly power quality phenomena. In this study, a Monte-Carlo based approach is proposed to consider the cost of sensitive loads disruption caused by dip and LDI in the optimal planning of synchronous distributed generations (SDGs). The idea is to link between trip probability due to dip and LDI and their yearly costs by employing Monte-Carlo simulation and acquiring their total costs during the planning horizon. The addition of disruption cost along with the traditional planning objectives like network upgrade cost and loss cost allows utilities to include the customer's perception during planning. A formula for the probability of disruption due to dip is derived and a modified Monte-Carlo approach is proposed. The methodology is illustrated on the distribution level of the IEEE 30-bus system and the optimisation problem is solved by particle swarm optimisation algorithm. The results demonstrate that the sensitive loads performance is improved from the dip standpoint in the presence of SDGs. However, the LDI cost is either not affected or aggravated by the presence of SDGs depending on the protection model. The total disruption cost is decreased.
Ligand-protected gold clusters are widely used in biosensors and catalysis. Understanding the structural evolution of these kinds of nanoclusters is important for experimental synthesis. Herein, based on the particle ...
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Ligand-protected gold clusters are widely used in biosensors and catalysis. Understanding the structural evolution of these kinds of nanoclusters is important for experimental synthesis. Herein, based on the particle swarm optimisation algorithm and density functional theory method, we use [Au-1(SH)(2)](n), [Au-2(SH)(3)](n), [Au-3(SH)(4)](n) (n=1-3) as basic units to research the structural evolution relationships from building blocks to the final whole structures. Results show that there is a line-ring-core' structural evolution pattern in the growth process of the nanoclusters. The core structures of the ligand-protected gold clusters consist of Au-3, Au-4, Au-6 and Au-7 atoms. The electronics and optics analysis reflects that stability and optical properties gradually enhance with increase in size. These results can be used to understand the initial growth stage and design new ligand-protected nanoclusters. [GRAPHICS] .
This study proposes a new application of micro-phasor measurement units (mu PMUs) for adaptive coordination of overcurrent relays in microgrids. Mis-coordination of overcurrent relays usually arising from the variatio...
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This study proposes a new application of micro-phasor measurement units (mu PMUs) for adaptive coordination of overcurrent relays in microgrids. Mis-coordination of overcurrent relays usually arising from the variation of relays fault current and it can cause damage to equipment of network and raise operating costs. Fault current injection and direction to microgrid are highly dependent on network uncertainties;therefore, fault current is affected by line and power plant outages. This study proposes an algorithm to detect these uncertainties in online operation. Then, microgrid overcurrent relays coordination is optimised again. Uncertainties are line and power plant outages in transmission network and microgrid side and two distinct methods are used for each. For online detection of uncertainties in the transmission side, it is assumed that a mu PMU is installed between transmission network and microgrid point of common coupling;so, the topology changes such as line outage is detected by monitoring of Thevenin impedance estimation that is obtained by mu PMU measurements. Uncertainties detection in a microgrid is done by signals that are sent by mu PMUs and installed all over the microgrid. All data are gathered and analysed in phasor data concentrators and then overcurrent relays coordination is updated with such changes.
Supercapacitors present an attractive energy storage alternative for high-performance applications due to their compact size and high-power density. Therefore, the supercapacitors have broad prospects for the developm...
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Supercapacitors present an attractive energy storage alternative for high-performance applications due to their compact size and high-power density. Therefore, the supercapacitors have broad prospects for the development in the field of electric vehicles and renewable energy. To describe the output characteristics of the supercapacitors with high accuracy for the simulation research and practical application, a dynamic modelling method is proposed for the supercapacitors based on support vector machine (SVM) and particleswarmoptimisation (PSO) algorithm. In this study, the SVM is used to predict the output voltage of the supercapacitors with the key parameters (temperature, current and initial voltage). The PSO algorithm is adopted to optimise the parameters of the SVM to improve the performance of the dynamic modelling. An experimental platform is established, where an electric machine drive system powered by the supercapacitors is controlled to operate at frequent acceleration and deceleration modes, thus leading to the frequent charging and discharging of the supercapacitors. The experimental data is collected to validate the effectiveness of the proposed method. The results show that the proposed method can effectively predict the output voltage of the supercapacitors.
Clearing power grid faults swiftly and selectively offers higher security, reliability and sustainability. Accomplishing this aim by deploying directional overcurrent relays (DOCRs) is one of the major challenges in m...
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Clearing power grid faults swiftly and selectively offers higher security, reliability and sustainability. Accomplishing this aim by deploying directional overcurrent relays (DOCRs) is one of the major challenges in meshed and multisource distribution networks. To overcome this challenge, the current study elaborates a new coordination strategy which concentrates on minimising overall operation time of relays. In this strategy, an auxiliary variable is added to classical operation time model of each DOCR. All the auxiliary variables are considered as coordination constraints which help to yield new and well-defined time current characteristics (TCCs). In other words, more flexibility is attained in adjusting relay's characteristic which helps to alleviate clearing time of faults. The obtained TCCs can be easily performed by numerical relays. In addition, a new objective function is defined to steer the relay settings towards optimal solutions conveniently. It was shown that the proposed approach not only reduces the operation time of relays, but also prevents miscoordinations. This approach demonstrates a non-linear programming model tackled by particle swarm optimisation algorithm. The effectiveness of the proposed approach is verified via 8-bus and IEEE 14-bus test systems and results are discussed in depth.
Piezoelectric actuators (PEAs) are widely applied in various nanopositioning equipment. However, the strong hysteresis nonlinearity compromises the positioning accuracy. In this work, a novel modified Bouc-Wen (MBW) m...
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Piezoelectric actuators (PEAs) are widely applied in various nanopositioning equipment. However, the strong hysteresis nonlinearity compromises the positioning accuracy. In this work, a novel modified Bouc-Wen (MBW) model with a polynomial function of the differential of the input is established for modelling the hysteresis nonlinearity of the PEA-actuated nanopositioning stages. The particle swarm optimisation algorithm is adopted to identify the parameters of the MBW model with a set of input-output experimental data. The obtained model with the corresponding identification parameters matches well the experimental data with 0.31% relative error. A feedforward compensator based on the obtained model is also applied to compensate the hysteresis nonlinearity. Experiments are conducted to validate the effectiveness of this approach, and the results show the great improvement of positioning accuracy of the stage.
With the rapid implementation and expansion of the Internet of things (IoT) technologies in smart cities, network congestion control and energy-efficient routing in wireless sensor and actuator networks (WSANs) for vi...
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With the rapid implementation and expansion of the Internet of things (IoT) technologies in smart cities, network congestion control and energy-efficient routing in wireless sensor and actuator networks (WSANs) for virtualising IoT have emerged as a crucial area of research in recent years. This study implements the particleswarmoptimisation (PSO) algorithm to realise network congestion control and energy-efficient routing in the transport layer of WSANs. This algorithm is based on the flocking behaviour of birds. The simulation results show that the proposed PSO-based approach provides better performance in terms of network lifetime and packet drop ratio compared with the ant colony optimisation and the artificial bee colony algorithm.
This study introduces the mathematical model of a new type of power system stabiliser PSS4B-W. The concept of crossbreed in genetic algorithm is introduced to particle swarm optimisation algorithm and applied to PSS4B...
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This study introduces the mathematical model of a new type of power system stabiliser PSS4B-W. The concept of crossbreed in genetic algorithm is introduced to particle swarm optimisation algorithm and applied to PSS4B-W parameter optimisation. With a PCS-9410 excitation regulator, the semi-physical simulation system is constituted on a real time digital simulator (RTDS) platform. By measuring the excitation system phase frequency characteristic without compensation, the PSS4B-W parameter optimisation is converted to a set of parameters optimisation process with inequality constraint. In the RTDS platform, the time-domain dynamic response of without PSS, adding PSS2B and PSS4B-W, is compared and analysed. Simulation results show that the optimised PSS4B-W can provide effective damping in different frequency bands, and have good inverse-regulation suppression effect.
This study focuses on optimisation design of permanent magnet linear synchronous motors that are applied in laser engraving machines with no cutting force. Traditional analytical optimisation method based on magnetic ...
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This study focuses on optimisation design of permanent magnet linear synchronous motors that are applied in laser engraving machines with no cutting force. Traditional analytical optimisation method based on magnetic field with particle swarm optimisation algorithm was introduced to obtain the best combination of motor structure parameters. By contrast, the novel optimisation design method - Taguchi method based on orthogonal array was proposed to optimise the thrust and thrust ripple. After the design of experiments using finite-element analysis, the relative importance of each design parameter was estimated in detail. Experimental results of prototype can certify the superiority and validity of Taguchi optimisation method.
This study considers the sparse linear array (SLA) design problem of coherent unambiguous transmit for the distributed aperture coherence-synthetic radar, accounting for the antenna size constraint and geography const...
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This study considers the sparse linear array (SLA) design problem of coherent unambiguous transmit for the distributed aperture coherence-synthetic radar, accounting for the antenna size constraint and geography constraint where the elements cannot be placed in a given region. The authors develop an objective function considering the sum of the peak sidelobe level (PSL) for different beam shifting directions. Then, based on a processing strategy for considered constraints, they derive the antenna element locations by minimising the objective function through particle swarm optimisation algorithm. Finally, several numerical simulations verify the effectiveness of the proposed SLA design method.
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