scholarly journals Performance of grid-connected solar photovoltaic power plants in the Middle East and North Africa

2019 ◽  
Vol 9 (5) ◽  
pp. 3375
Author(s):  
Jalal Assadeg ◽  
Kamaruzzaman Sopian ◽  
Ahmad Fudholi
Keyword(s):  
Middle East ◽  
North Africa ◽  
Power Plants ◽  
Design Method ◽  
Electrical Power ◽  
Climatic Conditions ◽  
Electrical Power System ◽  
Pv Array ◽  
Solar Fraction ◽  
Southern Mediterranean

A conceptual design Study of a solar electrical power system using PV array for a 5.3MW as nominal power required is presented. A Bird model has been used to estimate hourly, daily, monthly and yearly solar radiation amounts. f-f-chart is a design method was chosen to simulate the fraction of the solar energy required for the load given the PV array areas and climatic conditions. Four cities in the Middle East and North Africa representing different locations at southern Mediterranean region are selected Tripoli, Alexandria, Tunisia and Gaza city. Tripoli City has the best performance for 73% of nominal Power followed by Alexandria about 66% and then Gaza around 63%, Tunisia City has lowest solar fraction about 59% according to the Monthly and annual solar fraction Data.

Assessment and Planning of the Electrical Systems in Mexican Refineries by 2014

2011 ◽  
Author(s):  
Luis Ivan Ruiz Flores ◽  
J. Hugo Rodri´guez Marti´nez ◽  
Guillermo D. Taboada ◽  
Javier Pano Jimenez
Keyword(s):  
Power Systems ◽  
Power Plants ◽  
Electrical Power ◽  
Refining Industry ◽  
Oil Refining ◽  
Electrical Power System ◽  
Electrical Power Systems ◽  
New Process ◽  
Process Plants ◽  
Petroleum Company

Nowadays the refining sector in Mexico needs to increase the quantity and quality of produced fuels by installing new process plants for gasoline and ultra low sulphur diesel. These plants require the provision of electricity and steam, among other services to function properly, which can be supplied by the power plants currently installed in each refinery through an expansion of their generation capacity. These power plants need to increase its production of electricity and steam at levels above their installed capacity, which involves the addition of new power generating equipment (gas or steam turbo-generators) as well as the raise of the electrical loads. Currently, the Mexican Petroleum Company (PEMEX) is planning to restructure their electrical and steam systems in order to optimally supply the required services for the production of high quality fuels. In this paper the present status of the original electrical power systems of the refineries is assessed and the electrical integration of new process plants in the typical schemes is analyzed. Also this paper shows the conceptual schemes proposed to restructure the electrical power system for two refineries and the strategic planning focused on implement the modifications required for the integration of new process plants that will demand about 20 MW for each refinery by 2014. The results of the analysis allowed to identify the current conditions of the electrical power systems in the oil refining industry or National Refining Industry (NRI), and thereby to offer technical solutions that could be useful to engineers facing similar projects.

Electrical Power System Modeling of Atucha II Nuclear Power Plant Using etap

2019 ◽  
Vol 5 (2) ◽  
Author(s):  
Nicolás Alejandro Malinovsky
Keyword(s):  
Power System ◽  
Nuclear Power ◽  
Power Plants ◽  
Nuclear Power Plants ◽  
Electrical Power ◽  
Analysis Tool ◽  
Plant Design ◽  
Electrical Power System ◽  
Power Circuit ◽  
Electrical Systems

This work shows the introduction of the Electrical Power System Analysis (etap) software as a calculation and analysis tool for power electrical systems of the nuclear power plants (NPP) under the orbit of Nucleoeléctrica Argentina S.A (NASA). Through the use of the software, the model of the electrical power system of the Atucha II NPP was developed. To test the functionality of the modeled electrical power circuit, studies of load flow and short-circuit analysis were conducted, yielding satisfactory results, which were contrasted with the plant design values. Once the model has been validated, this will be the basis for carrying out different studies in the plant through simulation. Furthermore, with the incorporation of etap as a fundamental calculation and analysis tool for power electrical systems at the company's engineering departments, it is expected to improve the safety, operation, quality, reliability, and maintenance of both the Atucha II NPP electrical power system and the other nuclear power plants operated by Nucleoeléctrica Argentina S.A.

Multi-Objective Economic Emission Load Dispatch Solution Using Evolutionary Algorithm with and without Considering Wind Power Penetration and Valve Point Effect

2014 ◽  
Vol 626 ◽  
pp. 177-183
Author(s):  
K. Thenmalar ◽  
S. Ramesh ◽  
K.S. Anuja
Keyword(s):  
Quadratic Programming ◽  
Power System ◽  
Wind Power ◽  
Power Plants ◽  
Electrical Power ◽  
Electrical Energy ◽  
Fuel Cost ◽  
Electrical Power System ◽  
Bacterial Foraging Optimization ◽  
Multi Objective

The electrical power system is considered as the most complex man-made systems mainly due to their wide geographical coverage. Electrical energy industries contributes environmental pollution which rise questions concern environmental protection and methods of eliminating or reducing pollution from power plants either by design or by operational strategies. Electric power plants are mainly aimed to operate al low fuel cost strategies .In this paper a Multi –Objective Economic Emission Load Dispatch problem is solved to minimize the emission of nitrogen oxides (NOx) , oxides of other fuels that release during generation of electricity and fuel cost considering both Thermal generators and Wind turbines. A large number of iterations and oscillation are those of the major concern in solving the economic load dispatch problem by using the BFO(bacterial foraging optimization) method. By applying BFO method the economic dispatch problem is optimized to minimize the total generation cost of a power system while satisfying various equality and inequality constraints. The effect of Wind power on overall emission is also investigated here using Quadratic programming by wolf’s method. This method has better convergence characteristic. Wolf’s method is an extended simplex procedure which can be applied to Quadratic programming problems in which all the problem variables are non-negative.

Incorporating Environmental Impacts in Strategic Redesign of an Engineered System

2008 ◽  
Vol 130 (3) ◽  
Author(s):  
Steven R. Harper ◽  
Deborah L. Thurston
Keyword(s):  
Environmental Impacts ◽  
Early Retirement ◽  
Power Plants ◽  
Electrical Power ◽  
Decision Rules ◽  
Life Cycles ◽  
Life Extension ◽  
Electrical Power System ◽  
Term Operation ◽  
Operational Life

Large engineered systems do not often live out their life cycles as originally planned. Traditional design methods do not address redesign issues that arise during long term operation of these systems. The problem of how to consider the environmental impacts of stranded assets is especially problematic, particularly during system operational changes. This paper presents a method for analysis of a dynamically changing system that includes consideration of both economic and environmental impacts. A case study of an electrical power system illustrates the approach. Using a 100yr time period and using several decision rules (e.g., keep all plants operating until planned retirement age or retire all plants 10% early), the aggregated results were derived. The best sequence of decision or decision rule can now be determined by the highest multiattribute utility score. The best decision sequence is one that immediately retires and decommissions all fossil fueled electrical power plants, although early retirement without immediate decommissioning produces inferior utility values. There is little gained in utility when extending operational life of the plants, and as the 100yr period moves forward, all solutions collapse on the final system configuration. The results provide several insights that were gained through the ability to forecast the environmental impact caused by changes within the life cycle phases of a system, such as early retirement or operational life extension of facilities.

Research on LCR Filter in the Link of Shunt Active Power Filter in Electrical Power System

2013 ◽  
Vol 676 ◽  
pp. 273-276
Author(s):  
Chen Yu Zhang ◽  
Jian Yong Zheng ◽  
Jun Mei
Keyword(s):  
Power System ◽  
Design Method ◽  
Electrical Power ◽  
Active Power Filter ◽  
Active Power ◽  
Electrical Power System ◽  
Load Current ◽  
Shunt Active Power Filter ◽  
Power Filter ◽  
Output Filter

Shunt active power filter (APF) is an electric equipment which effectively optimizes harmonic waves. By measuring the load current, it produces compensated current with opposite amplitude to the load current in order to improve the power quality of the power grid. Little has been reported on how to effectively design the LPF employed in the link of shunt APF and power system. The paper theoretically analyzes constrains for parameters of the LCR output filter, and then determines the optimal LRC filter parameters by comparing different output filter (OF) functions. At last, the experiment results further verify the correctness of the design method.

Developing New Design Requirements to Reduce Failures in Early Complex Systems Design

2013 ◽  
Author(s):  
Bryan M. O’Halloran ◽  
Robert B. Stone ◽  
Irem Y. Tumer
Keyword(s):  
Failure Modes ◽  
Historical Data ◽  
Design Method ◽  
Electrical Power ◽  
Systems Design ◽  
Concept Generation ◽  
Electrical Power System ◽  
Design Requirements ◽  
Rate Design

In this paper, we develop a method that produces recommendations, usable by a designer, that reduce the likelihood of a failure occurring. Prior work introduced the Function Failure Rate Design Method (FFRDM) which uses historical data as evidence to generate new design requirements. This paper presents improvements to FFRDM by including an iterative loop within the method that begins with specific recommendations. This allows evidence from the analysis to support the addition of new requirements and functionality into the design. Once the iterative loop has converged with no new requirements left to generate, all recommendations are used for concept generation. In addition, metrics are developed that can be used later to analyze the design. These metrics are important to ensure that the design has considered the full set of recommendations. Specifically, the updated FFRDM improves the original FFRDM with 1) a systematic and repeatable heuristic to group failure modes and determine which failure modes are predominate, 2) a categorization of the recommendations, 3) metrics built for the recommendations used in concept generation to make them measurable, and 4) using recommendations to develop new requirements and functionality. To show the usefulness of each improvement to FFRDM, a case study using an electrical power system (EPS) is provided.

scholarly journals Robust Compensating Function Scheme for Adequate Electrical Power System Stabilization

2021 ◽  
pp. 80-91
Author(s):  
Michael Macmammah ◽  
J. Atuchukwu ◽  
C. I. Obinwa ◽  
Chukwudi E. Agbaraji
Keyword(s):  
Power System ◽  
Design Method ◽  
Tracking Error ◽  
Electrical Power ◽  
Synthesis Method ◽  
Power Line ◽  
Electrical Power System ◽  
H Infinity ◽  
Stability Robustness ◽  
Gain Margin

This work centers on robust compensating function scheme for adequate electrical power system stabilization. There has been high level of disturbances in the power line and lack of adequate compensation technique to cancel the effects of the resultant instability which has caused power failures. The problem was addressed by the consideration of disturbances in the power line during the design of the compensating function for the improvement of the power system performance and stability. H-Infinity synthesis robust compensating function design method was used to design an adequate compensator that can improve the performance and stability of the power system.  From the results, the H-infinity Synthesis Controlled Generating Plant (HCGP) recorded an overshoot of 0%, settling time of 1.04 seconds, tracking error of 0dB, gain margin of 21.7dB and phase margin of 79.6 degrees. The simulation was repeated by varying the value to k to -0.3, and the generating plant produced same results. This shows that the system can maintain performance and stability equilibrium even when there is change in its parameters. Since the HCGP satisfied the performance and stability robustness, therefore it was concluded that power system robust compensating function scheme for improved performance and stability robustness was achieved using H-Infinity synthesis method.

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