The design of new dual-purpose thermal desalination plants is a combinatory problem because the optimal process configuration strongly depends on desired targets electricity and freshwater. This paper proposes mathematical model for selecting structure, operating conditions, sizes all system components plants. Electricity supposed to be generated by combined-cycle heat power plant (CCHPP) with ...

Power transformers reliability, amongst other things, depends on its insulation system. High voltage leads are a part of the system and should be properly insulated. This includes positioning an barrier between tank certain distance. distance affects safety factors (breakdown probability) for such The paper presents optimization process with which both breakdown probability vs. could minimized....

In an electricity market, every generation company (GENCO) attempts to maximize profit according to other participants bidding behaviors and power systems operating conditions. The goal of this study is to examine the optimal bidding strategy problem for GENCOs in energy and spinning reserve markets based on a hybrid GA-heuristic optimization algorithm. The heuristic optimization algorithm used...

Although significant private investment is absorbed in different sectors of power systems, transmission sector is still suffering from appropriate private investment. This is because of the pricing policies of transmission services, tariffs, and especially for investment risks. Investment risks are due to the uncertain behaviour of power systems that discourage investors to invest in the transm...

in this paper, the development and optimization of power distribution control strategy (pdcs) have been performed for a hybrid energy storage systems (hess) of a series hybrid electric bus (sheb). a common pdcs is based on the use of ultra-capacitor (uc) pack. a new simple pdcs is developed as a battery based one. for the battery based pdcs, four parameters are introduced for tuning the pdcs pe...