The mushrooming of distributed energy resources turns end-users from passive price-takers to active market-participants. To manage massive proactive efficiently, virtual power plant (VPP) as an innovative concept emerges. It can provide some necessary information help consumers improve their profits and trade with the electricity market on behalf them. One important desired by is prediction ren...

Virtual power plant (VPP) is an effective approach to aggregate distributed generation resources under a central control. This paper introduces a mixed-integer linear programming model for optimal scheduling of the internal resources of a large scale VPP in order to maximize its profit. The proposed model studies the effect of a demand response (DR) program on the scheduling of the VPP. The pro...

Power plants require continuous monitoring and inspection at frequent intervals. In the recent times, thermal power generation has under gone long process of modification right from its conventional working principles to automation using technology in the form of DCS, PLC, SCADA (Supervisory Control and Data Acquisition) etc. An automated system improves the system efficiency, plant monitoring,...

In this paper a ”hardware in the loop” design concept as an experimental part of power electronics courses is considered. Hardware in the loop method utilizes plant simulation model in connection with real standard target controller. An low cost virtual test bed for educational purposes is developed and tested. The used general purpose equipment can be utilized for controller implementation as ...

Realistic modelling and interactive rendering of forestry and landscape is a challenge in computer graphics and virtual reality. Recent new developments in plant growth modelling and simulation lead to plant models faithful to botanical structure and development, not only representing the complex architecture of a real plant but also its functioning in interaction with its environment. Complex ...