due to the increasing interest on renewable sources in recent years, the studies on integration of distributed generation to the power grid have rapidly increased. in order to minimize line losses of power systems, it is crucially important to define the size and location of local generation to be placed. minimizing the losses in the system would bring two types of saving, in real life, one is ...

In this paper, we present a new method to determine the optimal location and parameter settings of UnifiedPower Flow Controller (UPFC) for removing voltage violations and transmission lines overloading. UPFC isconsidered as the most powerful member of the FACTS devices, that it can control shunt and series power flow.This option gives to UPFC the power to control the voltage profile and transmi...

a r t i c l e i n f o a b s t r a c t Keywords: heat flow heat flux hydrothermal circulation oceanic heat loss sedimentation Using an updated global heat flow dataset with >14 000 oceanic measurements, we revise the estimated global power deficit due to ventilated hydrothermal circulation. This study differs from previous estimates by taking into account (1) non-Gaussian statistics, (2) an impr...

flexible ac transmission systems (facts) controllers with its ability to directly control the power flow can offer great opportunities in modern power system, allowing better and safer operation of transmission network. in this paper, in order to find type, size and location of facts devices in a power system a dedicated improved particle swarm optimization (dipso) algorithm is developed for de...

This paper considers the hydrothermal unit commitment problem of power systems with high proportion of hydraulic generation. In this sense, a large-scale mixed-integer nonlinear programming problem for the two day cost-optimal generation of system is developed. The model involves a large number of mixed-integer decision variables and constraints linking time periods and operation units. A Lagra...

In this paper, hybrid particle swarm optimization and gravitational search algorithm is proposed to find the optimal solution for the optimal power flow problem including three wind farms connected to the isolated Adrar Algerian power system. In order to get the cost model, the economic problem is converted into a single objective function considering the fuel cost and cost of wind generation b...

In this document we develop a non-linear, stochastic and integer model for the problem of determining the optimal hourly schedule of power generation in a hydrothermal power system. We consider a power generation system comprising thermal and hydro units and the problem concerns the scheduling of operation levels for all power units and considering the hydro constrains, such that the operation ...