{"title":"An adaptive technique based modeling of optimal bidding strategies for competitive electricity market","authors":"V. M. S. Reddy, B. Subramanyam, M. Kalavathi","doi":"10.1109/PESTSE.2014.6805251","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1109/PESTSE.2014.6805251","url":null,"abstract":"In this paper, an adaptive technique based modeling of the optimal bidding strategies for competitive electricity market is proposed. Here, Artificial Bees Colony (ABC) is an optimization tool, which is used in two phases, the employee bee and the onlooker bee to optimize the bidding parameters. From the optimized parameters the exact solution is predicted by the Cuckoo Search (CS) algorithm, which is replaced by the scout bee phase of the ABC. In the CS algorithm prediction function is based on the levy flight search. It is used to discover the exact parameters from more complicated problems with the use of probability. This action makes the ABC as an adaptive technique. The required demand of every period is identified by the learning and testing algorithm Neural Network (NN). Then the proposed adaptive technique maximizes the profit levels and meets the demand at minimum pricing levels. Finally the proposed method is implemented in the MATLAB/simulink platform and effectiveness is analyzed by using the comparison of different techniques like ABC, PSO, ABC_PSO. The comparison results are demonstrating the superiority of the proposed approach and confirm its potential to solve the problem.","PeriodicalId":352711,"journal":{"name":"2014 POWER AND ENERGY SYSTEMS: TOWARDS SUSTAINABLE ENERGY","volume":"1 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2014-03-13","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"129108370","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
Md. Jahangir Alam, Sk Md Ali Zaker Shawon, M. Sultana, Md. Wasikur Rahman, M. R. Rahman Khan
{"title":"Kinetic study of biodiesel production from soybean oil","authors":"Md. Jahangir Alam, Sk Md Ali Zaker Shawon, M. Sultana, Md. Wasikur Rahman, M. R. Rahman Khan","doi":"10.1109/PESTSE.2014.6805328","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1109/PESTSE.2014.6805328","url":null,"abstract":"Biodiesel production from soybean oil can play an important role as an alternative source of energy for automobile applications. In this paper an attempt has been made to generate biodiesel from soybean oil using transesterification and three step method. The kinetics of transesterification reaction heterogeneously catalyzed by calcium oxide was studied in order to understand the reaction mechanism of the system. The three step method comprises with saponification of oil, acidification of the soap and finally esterification of free fatty acid (FFA). Both the techniques go through a number of parameters like reaction conditions, catalyst selection, reaction time, temperature and molar ratio of oil to intermediate products and additives required to be optimized. The results showed that transesterification reaction obeyed pseudo first-order kinetics with a reaction rate constant k=0.023 min.-1 for 5 wt.% CaO and yield obtained ~95% within 120 min with a viscosity of 4.10 mm2/s. In the three step method, conversion of biodiesel was found ~98% with molar ratio of methanol to FFA 5:1. Conversion of soybean oil into its subsequent biodiesel was verified and the results are comparable to commercial diesel. Consequently, biodiesel from this potential source can be a suitable pathway to commit our present and future fuel demand in the world.","PeriodicalId":352711,"journal":{"name":"2014 POWER AND ENERGY SYSTEMS: TOWARDS SUSTAINABLE ENERGY","volume":"1 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2014-03-13","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"115800373","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"Microgrid: Prospects and challenges in Nepal","authors":"S. Jha, P. Stoa, K. Uhlen","doi":"10.1109/PESTSE.2014.6805289","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1109/PESTSE.2014.6805289","url":null,"abstract":"The objective of this paper is to present the current status and possibilities of microgrid in Nepal. There are many possibilities of microgrid implementation, interconnecting micro hydro power plants (MHPs). Hybrid microgrids could also be formed interconnecting MHPs with wind turbines or photovoltaic systems. The challenges and benefits of implementing a microgrid are presented in this paper. The paper also presents the case of first pilot microgrid installed in Nepal.","PeriodicalId":352711,"journal":{"name":"2014 POWER AND ENERGY SYSTEMS: TOWARDS SUSTAINABLE ENERGY","volume":"44 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2014-03-13","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"126967768","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"Power processor for microbial fuel cells","authors":"P. Kanakasabapathy, Akash Gopinathan Pillai","doi":"10.1109/PESTSE.2014.6805327","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1109/PESTSE.2014.6805327","url":null,"abstract":"This paper presents a novel power processor topology to be utilized for deriving power from the microbial fuel cells. The power thus derived will be of sustained for long time with constant voltage and enhanced output power. This topology is concentrated in use of low power consuming Digital Integrated Circuits (IC), which improves the efficiency of system and being compact in nature, these stacked ICs can be used for accommodating multiple numbers of microbial fuel cells. The simulation results of the proposed system are presented to show the validity and sustainability of system.","PeriodicalId":352711,"journal":{"name":"2014 POWER AND ENERGY SYSTEMS: TOWARDS SUSTAINABLE ENERGY","volume":"49 3","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2014-03-13","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"121014584","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"STATCOM for enhancement of voltage stability of a DFIG driven wind turbine","authors":"K. Latha, M. Kumar","doi":"10.1109/PESTSE.2014.6805262","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1109/PESTSE.2014.6805262","url":null,"abstract":"Wind farms are introduced in larger and larger quantities in power systems all over the world. Hence, it becomes more and more vital to be able to perform power system studies, including wind farm behavior, and it demands modeling of wind farms. This paper deals with the implementation of FACTS controller called static synchronous compensator STATCOM to improve the performance of the grid connected wind farms. The essential feature of the STATCOM is that it has the ability to absorb or inject fastly the reactive power with power grid. Therefore the voltage regulation of the power grid with STATCOM FACTS device is achieved. Moreover restoring the system stability after severe disturbance is achieved by using the STATCOM. to validate the usage of STATCOM a simulated model is designed when subjected to sudden load variation. The results prove the effectiveness of the controller in restoring the system stability.","PeriodicalId":352711,"journal":{"name":"2014 POWER AND ENERGY SYSTEMS: TOWARDS SUSTAINABLE ENERGY","volume":"27 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2014-03-13","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"122445156","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"Sustainable grid for 21st century based on IEC automation: An comprehensive analysis","authors":"P. Balakrishna, K. Swarup, R. Kommu","doi":"10.1109/PESTSE.2014.6805288","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1109/PESTSE.2014.6805288","url":null,"abstract":"Power System or grid is a legacy system with collection of wide-variety of components, processes and equipments that make a physical system for generation, transmission, distribution and utilization of electricity. Over the years complexity of the system has grown in a multifold fashion, posing tremendous challenges during its operation. In order to meet the needs of 21st century grid challenges, Smart Grid has evolved which uses advanced computational intelligence based technologies and infrastructure for better, efficient management of the grid. Automation is one such technology which has become a vision of a smart grid that uses communication and IT based systems for automatically managing and controlling the operations of the grid. In this paper, we present an overview of grid automation and its standardization from generation to utilization systems and discuss some of the challenges.","PeriodicalId":352711,"journal":{"name":"2014 POWER AND ENERGY SYSTEMS: TOWARDS SUSTAINABLE ENERGY","volume":"6 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2014-03-13","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"122574569","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"An analysis of economic load dispatch with prohibited zone and ramp-rate limit constraints using different algorithms","authors":"Koustav Dasgupta, Sumit Banerjee","doi":"10.1109/PESTSE.2014.6805298","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1109/PESTSE.2014.6805298","url":null,"abstract":"The economic load dispatch (ELD) plays an important role in power system operation and control. Different techniques have been used to solve these problems. Recently, the soft computing techniques have widely used in practical applications. This paper shows successful implementation of four evolutionary algorithms, namely particle swarm optimization (PSO), particle swarm optimization with constriction factor approach (PSOCFA), particle swarm optimization with inertia weight factor approach (PSOIWA) and particle swarm optimization with constriction factor and inertia weight factor approach (PSOCFIWA) algorithms are used to economic load dispatch problem. Here prohibited zone and ramp-rate limit constraints are considered to solve this problem. Power output of each generating unit and optimum fuel cost obtained using all four algorithms have been compared.","PeriodicalId":352711,"journal":{"name":"2014 POWER AND ENERGY SYSTEMS: TOWARDS SUSTAINABLE ENERGY","volume":"3 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2014-03-13","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"125234956","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"SmartPark as Shunt Active Filter using modified ICosφ controller","authors":"Visal Raveendran, M. Nair","doi":"10.1109/PESTSE.2014.6805318","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1109/PESTSE.2014.6805318","url":null,"abstract":"This paper describes the use of Electric Vehicle Charging Stations (SmartParks) as Shunt Active Filters (SAF) to provide Vehicle-to-Grid (V2G) services to the grid such as reactive power compensation and harmonic elimination. The bidirectional converters used in these parks are used to charge the batteries during off-peak hours, support the grid by providing compensation when demanded and also supply the stored renewable energy to the grid if the parks use solar energy for charging. The complete simulation of the hysteresis current controlled voltage source converter (VSC) acting as SmartPark is presented using modified ICosΦ controller. Simulations are performed in MATLAB for inductive and non-linear loads under steady state as well as transient conditions. Simulation results demonstrate the viability of this simple and efficient controller to be used as SAF.","PeriodicalId":352711,"journal":{"name":"2014 POWER AND ENERGY SYSTEMS: TOWARDS SUSTAINABLE ENERGY","volume":"C-28 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2014-03-13","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"126482722","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"Smart grid technology & applications","authors":"S. Lakshminarayana, Anjul","doi":"10.1109/PESTSE.2014.6805268","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1109/PESTSE.2014.6805268","url":null,"abstract":"The relatively static, slow-changing power transmission and distribution market is finding itself at the confluence of energy, telecommunications and information technology (IT) markets, driving necessary change and innovation in support of a 21st century intelligent utility network, a “Smart Grid.” This paper serves to provide clarification of what the Smart Grid is, from end-to-end, and where it's going as the infrastructure is built out and the applications are ultimately defined and delivered. It does so by explaining the market drivers, benefits and challenges; walking through the many market segments and technologies; laying out the current and future applications.","PeriodicalId":352711,"journal":{"name":"2014 POWER AND ENERGY SYSTEMS: TOWARDS SUSTAINABLE ENERGY","volume":"163 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2014-03-13","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"132317946","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"Performance improvement of dynamic voltage restorer using proportional - Resonant controller","authors":"V. Surendran, V. Srikanth, Subhash Joshi","doi":"10.1109/PESTSE.2014.6805257","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1109/PESTSE.2014.6805257","url":null,"abstract":"The tripping of drive systems in process industries are caused due to voltage sag or swell, which results in heavy economic losses. As a solution to this, DVR is reported. By using PI-controller for the control of DVR, a noticeable steady state error is found. But the analysis shows that there is a limitation in giving higher value of gain for the PI-controller, as it magnifies the resonant frequency components. This paper deals with the performance improvement in DVR operation by using PR-controller. Simulation results of the DVR output voltage with PI and PR controllers are depicted and experimental validation of the proposed PR controller is done.","PeriodicalId":352711,"journal":{"name":"2014 POWER AND ENERGY SYSTEMS: TOWARDS SUSTAINABLE ENERGY","volume":"1 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2014-03-13","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"130073425","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}