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Capacity Benefit Margin Evaluation in Multi-area Power Systems Including Wind Power Generation Using Particle Swarm Optimization
Available transfer capability (ATC) is an index showing the measure of transfer capability remaining in the physical transmission network over and...
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Optimal Controller Design of a Wind Turbine with Doubly Fed Induction Generator for Small Signal Stability Enhancement
Multi-objective optimal controller design of a doubly fed induction generator (DFIG) wind turbine system using Differential Evolution (DE) is...
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Wind Power Systems Applications of Computational Intelligence
Renewable energy sources such as wind power have attracted much attention because they are environmentally friendly, do not produce carbon dioxide...
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Intelligent Controller Design for a Remote Wind-Diesel Power System: Design and Dynamic Performance Analysis
This chapter presents design of intelligent controllers for a wind-diesel power system equipped with a wind turbine driving an induction generator....
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Optimal Conductor Size Selection in Distribution Systems with Wind Power Generation
Optimal conductor size selection is an important part of the distribution system planning process. Wind power generators installed in the...
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Eigenvalue Analysis of a DFIG Based Wind Power System under Different Modes of Operations
This chapter discussed the various mode of operation of the Doubly Fed Induction Generator (DFIG) based wind farm system. The impact of a auxiliary...
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Fuzzy Logic as a Method to Optimize Wind Systems Interconnected with the Grid
The wind systems have become more and more complex, namely due to increase of the turbines and wind farms power, what implies higher significance of...
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Adaptive Fuzzy Control for Variable Speed Wind Systems with Synchronous Generator and Full Scale Converter
Control systems for variable-speed wind turbines (WTs) are continuously evolving toward innovative and more efficient solutions. Among the various...
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Global Optimization of Wind Farms Using Evolutive Algorithms
The design of a facility for wind power generation is a complex and multidisciplinary problem. The complexity of the problem derives mainly from the...
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Optimal Allocation of Power-Electronic Interfaced Wind Turbines Using a Genetic Algorithm – Monte Carlo Hybrid Optimization Method
The increasing amount of wind power integrated to power systems presents a number of challenges to the system operation. One issue related to wind...
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Stochastic Dispatch of Power Grids with High Penetration of Wind Power Using Pareto Optimization
Stochastic dispatch (SD) for a power system with both thermal and wind units is considered. First, the uncertainty associated with the wind power...
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On-line Determination of the MTC (Moderator Temperature Coefficient) by Neutron Noise and Gamma-Thermometer Signals
The estimation of the Moderator Temperature Coefficient of reactivity (MTC) by noise analysis is investigated theoretically. It is shown that the...
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Artificial Neural Networks Modeling as a Diagnostic and Decision Making Tool
Fault diagnosis of a complex system, such as nuclear power plant (NPP), is an important part of the operator task. Artificial neural networks (ANN)...
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Diagnosis of Measuring Systems Using Cluster Analysis Applied to Hydrostatic Water Level Measurement
For a continuous monitoring, control, and diagnosis of high transient technical processes in safety-related systems as Nuclear Technology it is...
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Adaptive Model-Based Control of Non-linear Plants Using Soft Computing Techniques
We describe in this paper adaptive model-based control of non-linear plants using soft computing techniques. First, the general concept of adaptive...
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Modern Approaches and Advanced Applications for Plant Surveillance and Diagnostics: An Overview
The goal of this introductory chapter is to briefly summarise all chapters in this book and to communicate to a wide audience by relating modern...
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Planning Surveillance Test Policies Through Genetic Algorithms
Nuclear power plant systems are comprised of both online and cold-standby components. Cold-standby components differ from the online ones, as they...
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Bayesian Networks in Decision Support
Since the beginning of industrialism, the complexity of industrial processes has been continuously increasing. In modem plants during normal...
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Power Plant Surveillance and Diagnostics Applied Research with Artificial Intelligence
In little more than a decade, the availability of nuclear power plants in the United States and most European and Pacific Rim countries has increased...
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Detecting Impacting of BWR Instrument Tubes by Wavelet Analysis
Detection of impacting of detector tubes, also called instrument strings, has been a matter of interest both in Swedish and foreign BWRs. Although...