This paper investigates the matrix converter when working as the unified power flow controller which can regulate the active reactive power flowing in a transmission line. A conventional unified power flow controller usually has a DC capacitor; this is removed in the proposed controller. This reduces the volume, improves the efficiency and lifetime, and eliminates the DC voltage control. The de...

This paper puts forward the implementation of an intelligent type II fuzzy PID (T2-FPID) controller tweaked with a water cycle algorithm (WCA), subjected to error multiplied time area over integral (ITAE) objective index for regularizing variations in frequency and interline power flow interconnected system during load disturbances. The WCA-based T2-FPID is tested on multi-area (MA) comprising ...

Static Synchronous Series Compensator (SSSC) is a series compensating Flexible AC Transmission System (FACTS) controller for maintaining to the power flow control on a transmission line by injecting a voltage in quadrature with the line current and in series mode with the line. In this work, an Adaptive Network-based Fuzzy Inference System controller (ANFISC) has been proposed for controlling o...

In this paper, a supervisory controller is proposed to manage the power flow in a hybrid AC/DC micro-grid for both grid-connected and disconnected modes. When the hybrid AC/DC micro-grid is connected to the utility grid, power surplus or shortage leads to power trade between the micro-grid and the utility grid. In the grid-disconnected mode, the renewable power sources (wind and solar generatio...

Load Frequency Control (LFC); Generation Rate Constraint (GRC); Governor Dead Band (GDB); Differential Evolution (DE); Unified Power Flow Controller (UPFC); Redox Flow Battery (RFB) Abstract In this paper, a Modified Integral Derivative (MID) controller is proposed for Load Frequency Control (LFC) of multi-area multi-source power system in deregulated environment. The multi-source power system ...

This paper presents a method for designing of proportional-integral-derivative (PID) controller based on unified power flow controller (UPFC) using chaotic harmony search algorithm (CHS) for damping of low frequency oscillations (LFO) in a power system. The main aim of this paper, optimization of selected gains with the time domainbased objective function which is solved by chaotic harmony sear...

The boiler drum process is a nonlinear, complex and multivariable process which includes significant time delay. Therefore, the control on the water level in the drum is not easy and ideal. The first objective of this paper is to model the drum water level referring to 210 MW power unit for Nassiriyah thermal power plant. The second objective is to study the water level controller operation wit...