This paper proposes a maximum penetration ranking based approach for siting of Distributed Generators (DG) in a radial distribution system. In this method, the system buses are ranked based on the maximum power that can be injected at each system bus without causing voltage violations. This ranking is called as Maximum Penetration Ranking (MPR) and the buses of laterals with highest MPR are sel...

A computer based model has been developed by HSE for quantified risk assessment of above ground LPG installaty ions, initially for vessels up to 300 te. A representative set of events and their associated frequencies has been used to predict individual and societal risk levels. Sensitivity studies indicate that the BLEVE event frequency and, to a lesser extent, fireball mass have most significa...

Nearshore aquaculture siting requires the integration of a range of physical, environmental, and social factors. As a result, the information demand often presents coastal managers with a range of complex issues regarding where specific types of aquaculture should be ideally located that reduce environmental and social impacts. Here we provide a framework and tool for managers faced with these ...

The paper highlights on a new method to solve the network reconfiguration problem. The uncertainty of system loads vary from time to time and makes the distribution system operation and control more complex. Thus for a feeder system power loss is not at its minimum. In this context a methodology to reconfigure the microgrid and also to facilitate its operation in autonomous mode is being discus...

Concern over global climate change as a result of fossil fuel use has resulted in energy production from renewable sources. Marine renewable energy devices provide clean electricity but can also cause physical disturbance to the local environment. There is a considerable paucity of ecological data at potential marine renewable energy sites that is needed to assess potential future impacts and a...

This paper presents a possibilistic (fuzzy) model in optimal siting and sizing of Distributed Generation (DG) for loss reduction and improve voltage profile in power distribution system. Multi-objective problem is developed in two phases. In the first one, the set of non-dominated planning solutions is obtained (with respect to the objective functions of fuzzy economic cost, and exposure) using...

The scientific community is active in developing new models and methods to help reach the ambitious target set by UN SDGs7: universal access electricity 2030. Efficient planning of distribution networks a complex multivariate task, which usually split into multiple subproblems reduce number variables. present work addresses problem optimal secondary substation siting, means different clustering...

Previous research suggests that minority residential areas have a disproportionate likelihood of hosting various envirotnmental hazards. Some critics have responded that the contemporary correlation of race and hazards may reflect post-siting minority movein, perhaps because of a risk effect on housing costs, rather than discrimination in siting. This article examines the disproportionate sitin...