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Optimal Sizing of an Islanded Micro-Grid for an Area in North-West Iran Using Particle Swarm Optimization Based on Reliability Concept

H. Hassanzadehfard
Faculty of Electrical Engineering, Khajeh Nasir Toosi University, IranFaculty of Electrical Engineering, Khajeh Nasir Toosi University, Iran

S. M. Moghaddas-Tafreshi
Faculty of Electrical Engineering, Khajeh Nasir Toosi University, IranFaculty of Electrical Engineering, Khajeh Nasir Toosi University, Iran

S. M. Hakimi
Faculty of Electrical Engineering, Khajeh Nasir Toosi University, IranFaculty of Electrical Engineering, Khajeh Nasir Toosi University, Iran

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Published in: World Renewable Energy Congress - Sweden; 8-13 May; 2011; Linköping; Sweden

Linköping Electronic Conference Proceedings 57:37, p. 2969-2976

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Published: 2011-11-03

ISBN: 978-91-7393-070-3

ISSN: 1650-3686 (print), 1650-3740 (online)

Abstract

In islanded micro-grid design; a proper Distributed Energy Resource (DER) selection; sizing and effective coordination between resources are important and challenging optimization tasks. The types and sizes of renewable energy sources such as wind turbines; photovoltaic panels; fuel cell and the capacities of battery bank and the other distributed generators must be optimized in islanded micro-grid design. In this paper; the problem is formulated as a nonlinear integer minimization problem which minimizes the sum of the total capital; operational and maintenance and replacement cost of DERs; subject to constraints such as energy limits of each DER. This paper proposes Particle Swarm Optimization (PSO) for solving this minimization problem. The proposed methodology was used to design micro-grid for northwest of Iran. The simulation studies have shown that the proposed methodology provides excellent convergence and feasible optimum solution for sizing of islanded micro-grids using particle swarm optimization. In this paper some notions of reliability are considered for micro-grid; and the effect of reliability on total cost of micro-grid is evaluated.

Keywords

Micro-grid; Optimal sizing; Particle swarm optimization; Reliability

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