Today, one of most important concerns in electrical power markets and distribution network is supplying the customer demands. In order to manage the market it is necessary to forecast the usage of electrical power in distribution network. The pattern of electrical power usage depends on many different parameters such as the week days, seasons, weather condition and etc. Today, researchers by us...

In electrical heating systems, the electrical power consumption should be lower than the Contracted Power Limit. Energy distribution devices are used to solve this problem, but they are only concerned with the electrical energy. We claim that this energy distribution must also consider the comfort level in the building. In this work, an electrical energy distribution MAS for coordinating the el...

This paper presents a formulation of unit commitment for thermal units integrated with wind and solar energy systems and electrical vehicles with emphasizing on Mixed Integer Nonlinear Programming (MINLP). The renewable energy resources are included in this model due to their low electricity cost and positive effect on environment. As well as, coordinated charging strategy of electrical vehicle...

Energy harvesting is a conventional method to collect the dissipated energy of a system. In this paper, we investigate the optimal location of a piezoelectric element to harvest maximum power concerning different excitation frequencies of a vibrating cantilever beam. The cantilever beam oscillates by a concentrated sinusoidal tip force, and a piezoelectric patch is integrated on the beam to gen...

The detailed study of electrical power systems is a key element of many curricula in Industrial Technology. A novel laboratory set-up has been designed and implemented at the University of Northern Iowa as an instructional resource for teaching electrical power system and renewable energy concepts. The set-up consists of a photo-voltaic solar-cell array, a mast mounted wind generator, lead-acid...

this paper proposes a novel approach for coherent generators online clustering in a large power system following a wide area disturbance. an interconnected power system may become unstable due to severe contingency when it is operated close to the stability boundaries. hence, the bulk power system controlled islanding is the last resort to prevent catastrophic cascading outages and wide area bl...