OPTIMAL ALLOCATION AND DESIGN OF GRID CONNECTED HYBRID DISTRIBUTED GENERATION SYSTEMS | ||
| ERJ. Engineering Research Journal | ||
| Article 8, Volume 35, Issue 4, October 2012, Pages 349-358 PDF (414.15 K) | ||
| Document Type: Original Article | ||
| DOI: 10.21608/erjm.2012.67192 | ||
| Author | ||
| Amany El-Zonkoly | ||
| Department of Electrical Power & Control Engineering, Collage of Eng. & Tech, Arab Academy for Science & Technology, Alexandria, Egypt | ||
| Abstract | ||
| This paper presents an artificial bee colony (ABC) based algorithm to optimally allocate, design and schedule hybrid photovoltaic-diesel distributed generation in distribution systems. The objective of the proposed algorithm is to minimize the overall investment, replacement and operation and maintenance costs of each component of the hybrid photovoltaic-diesel systems (HPVDS). The algorithm considers also the minimization of the distribution system power loss, the amount of un-served load and the imported power from the transmission grid. Meanwhile, the algorithm aims to maximize the excess generated power by the HPVDS that may be injected into the distribution network. These objectives are to be achieved while satisfying the operational constraints of the system. The proposed algorithm is applied to two test systems to validate its effectiveness. | ||
| Keywords | ||
| Hybrid photovoltaic-diesel systems (HPVDS); Artificial bee colony (ABC); Distributed generation (DG); Load shedding | ||
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