Distributed Generation (DG) plays an important role in current power systems with high demand growth. DG provides an alternative to the traditional electricity sources like oil, gas, coal, water, etc. and can also be used to enhance the current electrical system. DG distribution is likely to improve the reliability of a power distribution system by at least partially minimizing unplanned power ...

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In this paper, optimal generation expansion planning (GEP) is investigated considering purchase prices, profits of independent power producers (IPPs) and reliability criteria using a new method based on hybrid coded Genetic Algorithm (GA) and Particle Swarm Optimization (PSO). In this approach, optimal purchase price of each IPP is obtained by HCGA and reliability criteria are calculated by PSO...

The utilization of renewable energy sources in electric power systems is increasing quickly because of public apprehensions for unpleasant environmental impacts and increase in the energy costs involved with the use of conventional energy sources. Despite the application of these energy sources can considerably diminish the system fuel costs, they can also have significant influence on the syst...

As the United States (U.S.) Army transforms into a lighter, more lethal, and more agile force, the technologies embedded in both legacy and emerging weapon systems must decrease in size while increasing in intelligence. Micro-electromechanical systems (MEMS) are one such technology that the Army as well as entire Department of Defense (DOD). Even though the DOD plans to increase the usage of ME...

The redundancy allocation problem is formulated minimizing the design cost for a series-parallel system with multiple component choices while ensuring a given system reliability level. The obtained model is a nonlinear integer programming problem with a nonlinear, nonseparable constraint. We propose a method based on the construction of a test set of an integer linear problem, which allows us t...

A reliable routing protocol for wireless sensor networks (WSN) should be capable of adjusting to constantly varying network conditions while conserving maximum power. Existing Routing protocols provide reliability at the cost of high energy consumption. In this paper, we propose to develop an Adaptive Energy Efficient Reliable Routing Protocol (AEERRP) with the aim of keeping the energy consump...

This paper presents a method of fault prognostics and reliability estimation for DC motor using time series modeling procedure based on DC motor performance degradation data. DC motor performance degradation data are treated as a time series data and stochastic process are utilized to describe the degradation process for predicting long-term trend. A degradation test is processed for DC motor u...

Simulation-based system reliability prediction may require significant computations, particularly when the expected value of the system failure probability is relatively low. A methodology is presented for variance reduction of sampling-based series system reliability predictions based on optimal allocation of Monte Carlo samples to the individual failure modes. An algorithm is presented for ad...

The series system means that both components must work for systems success. From probability concepts (independent events), the reliability (system success) of the above system (RAB) is given as: RAB = RA RB and the system unreliability (system failure), designated as Q is given as: QAB = 1 RAB = 1 RA RB considering that, Q + R = 1 or R = 1 Q, therefore, QAB = 1 (1 QA) (1 QB) = QA + QB QA QB Fo...