Title: A novel optimisation method for optimal integration of the hybrid distributed generation with FACTS device: a practical case study

Authors: Raseel Aljendy; Rinat Nasyrov; Terad Ebraheem; Almoataz Youssef Abdelaziz; Ahmed A. Zaki Diab

Addresses: Electrical Power Systems Department, Moscow Power Engineering Institute 'MPEI', Moscow, 111250, Russia ' Electrical Power Systems Department, Moscow Power Engineering Institute 'MPEI', Moscow, 111250, Russia ' Electrical Engineering Department, Faculty of Engineering, Tishreen University, Latakia 2237, Syria ' Electrical Engineering Department, Faculty of Engineering, Ain Shams University, Cairo, Egypt ' Electrical Engineering Department, Faculty of Engineering, Minia University, Minia, 61111, Egypt

Abstract: The injected power from the renewable energy sources can bring new challenges and problems to the power grid, which already suffers from power quality (PQ) problems. The impact of the integration of the renewable power plants into the electric network corresponding to the level of harmonics and its propagation, besides the initial harmonics resulting from the nonlinear loads itself, has been presented and compensated in this paper. The paper presents the determination of the size of the distributed generation (DG) based on recent optimisation algorithms and a techno-economic feasibility study of PV and wind power plant was evaluated using the RETScreen program. Moreover, the active power filter (APF) has been designed as D-STATCOM for improving the power quality. A comprehensive comparison of the response of the system considering photovoltaic and wind generation with a nonlinear load in both cases with and without the APF is presented using MATLAB/Simulink.

Keywords: DG units; FACTS; active power filter; APF with the advanced controller; salp swarm algorithm; SSA optimisation; particle swarm optimisation; PSO; power quality; RETScreen; MATLAB/Simulink.

DOI: 10.1504/IJPEC.2021.118031

International Journal of Power and Energy Conversion, 2021 Vol.12 No.4, pp.314 - 337

Received: 14 Sep 2019
Accepted: 06 Oct 2020
Published online: 08 Oct 2021 *

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