Power Capacity Optimization in a Photovoltaics-Based Microgrid Using the Improved Artificial Bee Colony Algorithm
Open Access
- 25 April 2020
- journal article
- research article
- Published by MDPI AG in Applied Sciences
- Vol. 10 (9), 2990
- https://doi.org/10.3390/app10092990
Abstract
Although the combined cooling, heating and power (CCHP) microgrid is feasible for achieving a high energy utilization efficiency, the fluctuation of energy sources, such as a photovoltaic system and multiple loads, may affect the safety, economics and stability in CCHP microgrid operation. For this reason, this paper establishes a mathematical model using a multi-objective optimization mechanism for resolving the influence of economy and energy allocation in the mixed photovoltaic type CCHP microgrid. It is based on analytic hierarchy process (AHP) to determine the individual weight of objective function optimization for the multi-objective power capacity allocation. The improved artificial bee colony (IABC) based on the whale search and dynamic selection probability can achieve an optimization solution, reaching a stable operation state and reasonable capacity configuration in the microgrid system. The performance results confirm that the proposed algorithm is superior to others in both convergence speed and accuracyfor the capacity allocation of the CCHP microgrid.This publication has 40 references indexed in Scilit:
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