| Title | Power System Planning with Swarm Intelligence |
| Speaker | Dr. Bijaya Ketan Panigrahi |
| Chair | Ganesh Kumar Venayagamoorthy |
Abstract
Distribution system is an integral part of the power system, which connects the system to the consumers. The distribution system voltage is subjected to a wide variation because of the load change. Keeping in mind the power quality issues, customer satisfaction and the competitiveness among the distribution utilities, maintaining the voltage within the tolerance is a prime concern for the utilities. The proposed talk will attempt to explore efficient and accurate techniques for determining the size of capacitors (both fixed and switching type) and the most favorable points to place them, which will result in decrease in the losses, improve the voltage profile. This leads to a single objective / multi-objective optimization problem, as installation of capacitor is the investment of the utilities and in turn the losses occurred in the system decreases.
Similarly, keeping the growth of renewable sources in mind, the size and position of Distributed Generation (DG) will be determined which improves the overall performance of the network like loss reduction, increase in reliability of the system. DG refer to the generating units of much smaller capacity, for e.g., Wind Farm, Solar Farm, that have the flexibility of being connected anywhere in the distribution grid. While these DG have nil emission of polluting gases, they have the major disadvantage of uncertainty in power output. During low periods of output, power supply from other generating units has to be increased to meet the total power demand. This is, in general terms, called Power Scheduling. The research will also aim to determine power schedules keeping in mind this uncertainty as well as expected contingencies like power outages, generator maintenance, etc
Biography
Dr B K Panigrahi is working as Associate Professor in the Department of Electrical Engineering, IIT Delhi since 2005. Prior to joining IIT Delhi, he was a faculty at University College of Engineering, Burla, Sambalpur, Odisha, India from 1992 to 2005. Dr Panigrahi is having a teaching and research experience of more than 20 years. He is a senior member of IEEE. Dr Panigrahi is associated with the editorial activities of different International Journals like International Journal of Power and Energy Conversion, International Journal of Bio-Inspired Computation, Neurocomputing, Journal of Optimization, Mathematical Problems in Engineering etc. Dr Panigrahi’s research interest is on the application of Computational Intelligence techniques to Power System Planning, Operation and Control. He also works in the area of evolutionary computing and its application to power system optimization.
