Optimized Design and Control of a Stand-Alone Hybrid Power System using Modified Cuckoo Search Algorithm
Harish R1, Karthick R2
1Harish R, Assistant Professor, Department of Electrical and Electronics Engineering, SNS College of Engineering, Coimbatore (TamilNadu), India.
2Karthick R, Assistant Professor, Department of Electrical and Electronics Engineering, SNS College of Technology, Coimbatore (TamilNadu), India.
Manuscript received on 05 March 2019 | Revised Manuscript received on 17 March 2019 | Manuscript Published on 22 March 2019 | PP: 642-651 | Volume-8 Issue-5S April 2019 | Retrieval Number: ES3498018319/19©BEIESP
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Abstract: This paper presents the optimized design and control of a stand-the only hybrid power system with power management function using a modified search algorithm for cuckoo. The hybrid system comprising PV, Wind, Battery and Fuel Cell is connected to a common DC bus from which the load is supplied with a DC-AC converter. The two main sources namely wind and PV are embedded with MPPT controller to obtain optimum output. The battery which supplies the load during reduced PV output and fuel cell with electrolyzer is considered as an additional support of power to the DC bus. In addition, for power management in the hybrid system, the modified cuckoo search algorithm is proposed to improve the DC bus voltage and supervise the power sharing between loads and different sources. The results obtained are compared to the conventional controller to demonstrate the efficiency of the soft computing approach proposed. The whole system is constructed using the MATLAB Simulink environment and the results of the simulation are presented to validate the proposed method.
Keywords: Hybrid Power System (HPS), Modified Cuckoo Search Algorithm, Maximum Power Point Tracking (MPPT), Wind Turbine (WT), Fuel Cell, Electrolyzer.
Scope of the Article: VLSI Algorithms