This paper presents a new and optimal proposal of energy management strategy for a solar panels/wind turbines/fuel cell/battery/alkaline electrolyzer on grid hybrid power system. These new proposal takes into account technical and economical optimization parameters, improving the system...

This paper explores the performance of biogeography-based optimization (BBO) algorithm for solving combined heat and power dispatch (CHPD) or cogeneration problem of power system. BBO is a type of evolutionary algorithm which is based on the theory of biogeography and is inspired by the two...

Economic load dispatch plays an important role of power system operation & control by using different soft techniques that have been used to solve convex and non-convex economic load dispatch (ELD) problems. This paper presents a new global optimization algorithm to the economic load dispatch...

Query processing in distributed databases involves data transmission amongst sites capable of providing answers to a distributed query. For this, a distributed query processing strategy, which generates efficient query processing plans for a given distributed query, needs to be devised. Since in...

Applications of stochastic evolutionary algorithms in engineering are gaining more attention in practical applications in the oil and gas industry. An important factor to consider when implementing stochastic algorithms is its ability to find the global optimum efficiently. In this study the...

The aim of the study was to investigate as to whether piezoelectric energy harvesting could be a viable contributor to a source of renewable energy for the future. Here, a keyboard usage study was conducted using a data gathering computer program called WhatPulse in which participants and their...

Global warming due to greenhouse gas emissions and the growing energy needs of the world, has forced the world into thinking differently about energy sources and sustainable development, giving rise to the field of biofuels. Research and introduction of new technologies do, by their very nature,...

This article presents a hybrid PSO with Levy flight algorithm (LFPSO) for optimization of the PID controllers and employed in automatic generation control (AGC) of nonlinear power system. The superiority of the proposed LFPSO approach has been demonstrated with comparing to recently published...

This paper presents an offline control of ball and beam system using fuzzy logic. The objective is to control ball position and beam orientation using fuzzy controllers. A Matlab/Simulink model of the proposed system has been designed using Newton's equations of motion. The fuzzy controllers...

In this paper, an oppositional backtracking search algorithm (OBSA) is proposed to solve the large scale economic load dispatch (ELD) problem. The main drawback of the conventional backtracking search algorithm (BSA) is that it produces a local optimal solution rather than the global optimal...