Abstract
It has become desirable to develop energy control technologies for environmental issues such as global warming and exhaustion of fossil fuel. Power fluctuations in large power consumer facilities may cause instability of electric power systems and increase the cost of the electric power facilities and electricity charges. Developing electric power leveling systems (EPLS) to compensate power fluctuations is necessary for future electric power systems. EPLS with an SMES has been proposed as one countermeasure for use in electric power quality improvement. SMES is superior to other energy storage devices in response and storage efficiency. The authors have proposed EPLS based on fuzzy control with SMES. For this practical implementation, optimizing the control gain and SMES capacity is an important issue. This paper proposes a new method for optimization of the EPLS. The proposed algorithm is a novel particle swarm optimization based on taper-off reflectance (TRPSO). The proposed TRPSO optimizes the design variables of the EPLS efficiently and effectively.
| Original language | English |
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| Pages (from-to) | 10-18 |
| Number of pages | 9 |
| Journal | Electrical Engineering in Japan (English translation of Denki Gakkai Ronbunshi) |
| Volume | 186 |
| Issue number | 3 |
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| Publication status | Published - Feb 2014 |
Keywords
- SMES
- fuzzy control
- optimization
- particle swarm optimization
- vector reflection
ASJC Scopus subject areas
- Energy Engineering and Power Technology
- Electrical and Electronic Engineering