microgrids are nowadays used to produce electric energy with more efficiency and advantage. however, the use of microgrids presents some challenges. one of the main problems of the microgrids widely used in electrical power systems is the control of voltage, frequency and load sharing balance among inverter- based distributed generators (dgs) in islanded mode. droop method performance degrades ...

power system blackouts have become a serious problem for electric utilities especially in recent years. different forms of system instability have emerged in recent blackouts, such as voltage instability and frequency instability. to counteract each form of system instability, special algorithms have been designed in the protection system, e.g. under frequency load shedding (ufls) and under vol...

3 Introduction Introduction This paper presents a hybrid intelligent system for This paper presents a hybrid intelligent system for electrical load forecast, named by PREVER. electrical load forecast, named by PREVER. Artificial Neural Networks (ANN) were combined with Artificial Neural Networks (ANN) were combined with Heuristic Rules to create the system. Heuristic Rules to create the system....

Actual applications of the energy absorbers showed that actual loads are not applied in the form of pure axial compression, pure bending or pure torsion. In reality, an energy absorber component may be subjected to combined loading of compression, bending and torsion. A number of previous articles have investigated the behavior of energy absorbers under oblique loading. In such cases, the obliq...

Proper planning of assembly lines is one of the production managers’ concerns at the tactical level so that it would be possible to use the machine capacity, reduce operating costs and deliver customer orders on time. The lack of an efficient method in balancing assembly line can create threatening problems for manufacturing organizations. The use of assembly line balancing methods cannot balan...

Issues of load combinations of earthquakes and heavy trucks are important contents in multihazards bridge design. Current load resistance factor design (LRFD) specifications usually treat extreme hazards alone and have no probabilistic basis in extreme load combinations. Earthquake load and heavy truck load are considered as random processes with respective characteristics, and the maximum comb...

This paper combined artificial neural network and regression modeling methods to predict electrical load. We propose an approach for specific day, week and/or month load forecasting for electrical companies taking into account the historical load. Therefore, a modified technique, based on artificial neural network (ANN) combined with linear regression, is applied on the KSA electrical network d...