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A Soft-Computing Based Approach to Economic and Environmental Analysis of an Autonomous Power Delivery System Utilizing Hybrid Solar – Diesel – Electrochemical Generation

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Swarm, Evolutionary, and Memetic Computing (SEMCCO 2013)

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Concerns toward the continued availability of reliable grid-based power and global warming and depleting oil reserves have made a decentralized power delivery model seeking energy from renewable energy resources an inevitability. Photovoltaic power generating modules (PV), diesel generators (DG), battery energy storage systems (BESS) are emerging generation/storage technologies. The present work depicts the economic analysis and environmental impacts of a decentralized or distributed power delivery system integrated with hybrid distributed energy resources (DERs). The model for decentralized power delivery system has been developed employing a modified form of the differential evolution algorithm implemented within MATLAB® Simulink considering load demand scenario for a locality in India. Optimal power generation has been made using different sets of distributed energy resources, pertaining to cost estimation and respective environmental impact. The results show a cost effective power delivering network for hybrid DG-BESS, but PV-BESS is more beneficial from the environmental perspective.

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  1. Department of Power Engineering, Jadavpur University, Salt Lake City, Kolkata, 700098, India

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  1. Electrical Engineering Dept., IIT Delhi, Hauz Khas, 110016, New Delhi, India

    Bijaya Ketan Panigrahi

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    Ponnuthurai Nagaratnam Suganthan

  3. Electronics and Communication Sciences Unit, Indian Statistical Institute, 700108, Kolkata, India

    Swagatam Das

  4. SRM Engineering College, Department of Electrical and Electronics Engineering, SRM University, Potheri, Kattankulathur, Kancheepuram, 603203, Tamil Nadu, India

    Shubhransu Sekhar Dash

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Som, T., Chakraborty, N. (2013). A Soft-Computing Based Approach to Economic and Environmental Analysis of an Autonomous Power Delivery System Utilizing Hybrid Solar – Diesel – Electrochemical Generation. In: Panigrahi, B.K., Suganthan, P.N., Das, S., Dash, S.S. (eds) Swarm, Evolutionary, and Memetic Computing. SEMCCO 2013. Lecture Notes in Computer Science, vol 8297. Springer, Cham. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-319-03753-0_13

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