This article proposes a two-stage reliability-based model for the economic dispatch (ED) of thermal units (TUs) and wind turbines (WTs) in the presence of a demand-side response program (DSRP). In the first stage, the well-being analysis (WBS) is performed to determine the power generation and spinning reserve (SR) of the TUs regarding the timely power generation of WTs. In the second stage, the adoption of the responsive load consumption with various conditions of the generation system in the power pool market is established using the cost of expected energy not served criterion. This optimization problem is solved at two stages using the genetic algorithm. To validate the proposed model, numerical studies have been applied to the generation part of 24-Bus IEEE standard test power system including 11 TUs, one wind farm, and 1000 EVs. It is found from simulation results that an 8%–10% shift and increase in the energy consumption with responsive loads (RLs) participation especially EVs during low-load and off-peak hours can lead to more than 53.83% saving in total reliability cost of power system. In addition, the daily smooth load profile causes to savings in total load ED on TUs in the presence of WTs due to removing the unnecessary startup and shot-down costs during a day.
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Pub Date : 2024-03-12DOI: 10.1109/ICJECE.2023.3313566
Wenju Sang;Wenyong Guo;Yang Cai;Wenming Guo;Chenyu Tian;Suhang Yu;Shaotao Dai
The performance of the power converter bus bar is not only determined by its normal operational design, but also related to its fault ride-through ability consideration. Conventional busbar design only takes the normal operational performance into account. This article proposes an optimal busbar design method for the modular multilevel converter (MMC) submodule, which takes both the normal and fault ride-through performance into account. The normal operational design is to realize low stray inductance and balanced inductance distribution between parallel capacitor branches. The basic structural design guideline for the MMC submodule is presented. Taking both the stray inductance and manufacturing cost into account, the optimal layout of the busbar is proposed. To balance the capacitor branch currents, the mathematical model of the busbar stray inductance is built. The influence of different busbar structures on the stray inductance is analyzed. The analysis is verified by simulation results. To improve the fault ride-through capability, special consideration is taken into account to reduce the thermal and mechanical stress at the weakest point. Simulation and experimental results verify the efficacy of the proposed approaches.
{"title":"Optimal Busbar Design for the Press-Packed IGBT-Based Modular Multilevel Converter Submodule Considering Both Normal and Fault Ride-Through Conditions","authors":"Wenju Sang;Wenyong Guo;Yang Cai;Wenming Guo;Chenyu Tian;Suhang Yu;Shaotao Dai","doi":"10.1109/ICJECE.2023.3313566","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1109/ICJECE.2023.3313566","url":null,"abstract":"The performance of the power converter bus bar is not only determined by its normal operational design, but also related to its fault ride-through ability consideration. Conventional busbar design only takes the normal operational performance into account. This article proposes an optimal busbar design method for the modular multilevel converter (MMC) submodule, which takes both the normal and fault ride-through performance into account. The normal operational design is to realize low stray inductance and balanced inductance distribution between parallel capacitor branches. The basic structural design guideline for the MMC submodule is presented. Taking both the stray inductance and manufacturing cost into account, the optimal layout of the busbar is proposed. To balance the capacitor branch currents, the mathematical model of the busbar stray inductance is built. The influence of different busbar structures on the stray inductance is analyzed. The analysis is verified by simulation results. To improve the fault ride-through capability, special consideration is taken into account to reduce the thermal and mechanical stress at the weakest point. Simulation and experimental results verify the efficacy of the proposed approaches.","PeriodicalId":100619,"journal":{"name":"IEEE Canadian Journal of Electrical and Computer Engineering","volume":"47 2","pages":"36-47"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2024-03-12","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"140328936","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
The proportional, derivative, and integral (PID) controllers are commonly used in load frequency control (LFC) problems in micro-grid (MG) systems with renewable energy resources. However, fine-tuning these controllers is crucial for achieving a satisfactory closed-loop response. In this study, we employed a deep deterministic policy gradient (DDPG) reinforcement learning (RL) algorithm to adaptively adjust the PID controller parameters, taking into account the uncertain characteristics of the MG system. The DDPG agent was trained until it achieved the maximum possible reward and to learn an optimal policy. Subsequently, the trained agent was utilized in an online manner to adaptively adjust the PID controller gains for managing the fuel-cell (FC) unit, wind turbine generator (WTG), and plug-in electric vehicle (PEV) battery to meet the load demand. We have conducted various simulation scenarios to compare the performance of the proposed adaptive RL-tuned PID controller with the fuzzy gain scheduling PID (FGSPID) controller. While both methods employ intelligent mechanisms to adjust the gains of the PID controllers, our proposed RL-based adaptive PID controller outperformed the FGSPID controller.
{"title":"Deep Deterministic Policy Gradient Reinforcement Learning Based Adaptive PID Load Frequency Control of an AC Micro-Grid","authors":"Kamran Sabahi;Mohsin Jamil;Yaser Shokri-Kalandaragh;Mehdi Tavan;Yogendra Arya","doi":"10.1109/ICJECE.2024.3353670","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1109/ICJECE.2024.3353670","url":null,"abstract":"The proportional, derivative, and integral (PID) controllers are commonly used in load frequency control (LFC) problems in micro-grid (MG) systems with renewable energy resources. However, fine-tuning these controllers is crucial for achieving a satisfactory closed-loop response. In this study, we employed a deep deterministic policy gradient (DDPG) reinforcement learning (RL) algorithm to adaptively adjust the PID controller parameters, taking into account the uncertain characteristics of the MG system. The DDPG agent was trained until it achieved the maximum possible reward and to learn an optimal policy. Subsequently, the trained agent was utilized in an online manner to adaptively adjust the PID controller gains for managing the fuel-cell (FC) unit, wind turbine generator (WTG), and plug-in electric vehicle (PEV) battery to meet the load demand. We have conducted various simulation scenarios to compare the performance of the proposed adaptive RL-tuned PID controller with the fuzzy gain scheduling PID (FGSPID) controller. While both methods employ intelligent mechanisms to adjust the gains of the PID controllers, our proposed RL-based adaptive PID controller outperformed the FGSPID controller.","PeriodicalId":100619,"journal":{"name":"IEEE Canadian Journal of Electrical and Computer Engineering","volume":"47 1","pages":"15-21"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2024-03-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"140063617","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
The conventional approach to scalp inspection in the hairdressing industry relies on manually interpreting scalp symptom images. Hairdressers provide treatments based on visual assessment, leading to potential inaccuracies and misjudgments. To address these shortcomings, this article proposes a novel multimodal deep learning-based scalp inspection and diagnosis system. The proposed system employs various artificial intelligence (AI) object recognition modules, such as single-shot multibox detector (SSD)-MobileNetV2, SSD-InceptionV2, Faster region-based convolutional neural network (R-CNN)-InceptionV2, and Faster R-CNN-Inception-ResNetV2-Atrous <xref>(2)</xref>