Optimal Operation of Microgrids Containing Tidal Barrage with Hydro-Pumps

Document Type : Research paper

Authors

1 Department of Electrical Engineering, Marvdasht Branch, Islamic Azad University, Marvdasht, Iran

2 Department of Electrical Engineering, Dariun Branch, Islamic Azad University, Dariun, Iran

Abstract

For providing required load in n coastal and island regions, tidal barrage can be integrated in microgrids. To produce electricity from tides, in tidal barrage, water is moved between sea and reservoir through sluices containing turbines to generate electricity. In operation phase, produced power of tidal barrages depends on number of turbines, sluices and hydro-pumps. Thus, to maximize generated energy of tidal barrage, optimum number of turbines, sluices and hydro-pumps can be obtained through heuristic optimization techniques. Because of tidal level variation, generated power of tidal barrages changes over time. Thus, for load supplying, other renewable resources such as photovoltaic units, batteries, fuel-based generation units and grid-connected mode of microgrid are utilized. In this research, two-stage optimal operation of microgrids composed of tidal barrage, photovoltaic units, batteries and fuel-based generation units is done. In first stage, optimum number of turbines, sluices and hydro-pumps related to tidal barrage is determined for maximizing produced energy of tidal unit during time horizon of the study. In second stage, remaining load of microgrid is provided by photovoltaic units, batteries, fuel-based generation units and main network. To this end, generated power of fuel-based plants and power exchanged between microgrid and main grid are determined for minimizing operating cost of microgrid. The operating cost including operating cost of fuel-based generation units, cost of exchanged power between main grid and microgrid and penalties of load curtailment is optimized using particle swarm optimization method. Numerical results presents among different optimization algorithms, particle swarm method has performed best in operation studies of tidal barrage. For understudied microgrid, maximum generated energy of tidal barrage is 25.052 MWh, and minimum operating cost of the microgrid is 39868 $.

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Articles in Press, Corrected Proof
Available Online from 20 August 2023
  • Receive Date: 23 October 2022
  • Revise Date: 19 February 2023
  • Accept Date: 30 May 2023