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Power Optimization and Prioritization in an Island Supplied by a Rotating Machine Based Distributed Generator Using Artificial Bee Colony Algorithm

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Currently the greatest threat to the power systems reliability and security is the cascading of electric system failures thus causing power blackouts. For quite some time now, the world has been encountering many power blackouts as a result of these cascading failures. The cascading power failure instances pose great risks towards the integrity of power system network. This may finally lead to the splitting of the power system into various small unintentional islands. Hence, intentional or controlled islanding is then utilized as a preventive measure to mitigate the losses caused by unintentional islanding of the power system. Thus, by doing this, the entire power system is split into controlled island regions for the purposes of easy handling and control. In such situation, each islanded region should have sufficient generation to supply its connected loads in order to remain operative and stable. It should also be pointed out that intentional islanding is very important as it can prevent the entire power system from collapsing. The distributed generators supplying the loads in these islands may not be able to maintain the voltage and frequency within desired limits in the distribution system when it is islanded within the micro grid. There may be a power deficit within the island. This eventually leads to shedding of some loads within the island for the sake of stability of the system. Hence the main challenge here is to determine the appropriate and reliable method to optimize the power supply and the load demand in the island and thus maintain the voltage and frequency within the desired limit. In this study we focused on the determination of the minimum load amount for shedding within the islanded region and the prioritization of the buses for shedding so that electricity supply to customers could be maximized using ABC algorithm. From the results obtained, the ABC algorithm can be successfully applied for solving the optimization and prioritization problems within the island being supplied by a DG. The ABC algorithm has several merits over other algorithms which makes it suitable in this application. These advantages include; it is easily implemented, flexible, has few control parameters, easily hybridized with other optimization algorithms and can be modified very easily to suit any application. This system was simulated in MATLAB and SIMULINK using IEEE fourteen bus systems.

DOI 10.11648/j.ijepe.20160501.13
Published in International Journal of Energy and Power Engineering (Volume 5, Issue 1, February 2016)
Page(s) 15-21
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ABC Algorithm, Islanding, Power Prioritization and Optimization

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