Journal
ENGINEERING APPLICATIONS OF ARTIFICIAL INTELLIGENCE
Volume 21, Issue 8, Pages 1389-1396Publisher
PERGAMON-ELSEVIER SCIENCE LTD
DOI: 10.1016/j.engappai.2008.04.013
Keywords
Binary particle swarm optimization; Biomass; Solid oxide fuel cell; Distributed power generation; Profitability index
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This paper introduces a binary particle swarm optimization-based method to accomplish optimal location of biomass-fuelled systems for distributed power generation. The approach also provides the supply area for the biomass plant and takes technical constraints into account. This issue can be formulated as a nonlinear optimization problem. In rural or radial distribution networks the main technical constraint is the impact on the voltage profile. Biomass is one of the most promising renewable energy sources in Europe, but more research is required to prove that power generation from biomass is both technically and economically viable. Forest residues are here considered as biomass source, and the fitness function to be optimized is the profitability index. A fair comparison between the proposed algorithm and genetic algorithms (GAs) is performed. For such goal, convergence curves of the average profitability index versus number of iterations are computed. The proposed algorithm reaches a better solution than GAs when considering similar computational cost (similar number of evaluations). (C) 2008 Elsevier Ltd. All rights reserved.
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