The cement rotary kiln firing process is complex, and raw material fluctuations and kiln condition changes can cause changes in the actual model characteristics of the production. Aiming at the problem that the model prediction parameters of the model are difficult to select and the prediction accuracy is low, a differential evolution based DE-TVD-DBN structure optimization model. The DE-TVD-DBN forward reconstruction error according to the DE-TVD-DBN forward training model can reflect the characteristics of the restricted Boltzmann machine(RBM) to minimize the DE-TVD-DBN forward training. The forward reconstruction error is the objective function, and the DE-TVD-DBN structure optimization model is constructed. Considering the complexity and precision of the optimization process, the differential evolution algorithm is used to solve the model iteratively. Experiments were carried out using the actual data. The results show that the model structure selected by the model has higher precision in predicting the electricity consumption of the cement rotary kiln, and effectively reduces the complexity of the optimization process. The automatic optimization of the model structure is realized.
Microgrid formation is a potential solution in post-disaster electric grid recovery efforts. Recent works propose distribution level microgrid formation models using mixed-integer linear programming techniques. However, these models can only be solved for small and medium size power systems due to their computational intractability. In this paper, we introduce a heuristic approach to approximately solve the post-disturbance microgrid formation problem for medium to large, more realistic, instances. Furthermore, the proposed approach allows to approximately solve the pre-disturbance microgrid formation problem (a stochastic version of the post-disturbance problem), in which the aim is to allocate extra generation capacity to the network to immunize it, as best as possible, against an uncertain cascading failure. Our results are illustrated by solving versions of the problem on ten test cases with up to 3012 buses.
Abstract Following the rapid growth of distributed energy resources (e.g. renewables, battery), localized peer-to-peer energy transactions are receiving more attention for multiple benefits, such as, reducing power loss, stabilizing the main power grid, etc. To promote distributed renewables locally, the local trading price is usually set to be within the external energy purchasing and selling price range. Consequently, building prosumers are motivated to trade energy through a local transaction center. This local energy transaction is modeled in bilevel optimization game. A selfish upper level agent is assumed with the privilege to set the internal energy transaction price with an objective of maximizing its arbitrage profit. Meanwhile, the building prosumers at the lower level will response to this transaction price and make decisions on electricity transaction amount. Therefore, this non-cooperative leader-follower trading game is seeking for equilibrium solutions on the energy transaction amount and prices. In addition, a uniform local transaction price structure (purchase price equals selling price) is considered here. Aiming at reducing the computational burden from classical Karush-Kuhn-Tucker (KKT) transformation and protecting the private information of each stakeholder (e.g., building), swarm intelligence based solution approach is employed for upper level agent to generate trading price and coordinate the transactive operations. On one hand, to decrease the chance of premature convergence in global-best topology, Rubiks Cube topology is proposed in this study based on further improvement of a two-dimensional square lattice model (i.e., one local-best topology-Von Neumann topology). Rotating operation of the cube is introduced to dynamically changing the neighborhood and enhancing information flow at the later searching state. Several groups of experiments are designed to evaluate the performance of proposed Rubiks Cube topology based particle swarm algorithm. The results have validated the effectiveness of proposed topology and operators comparing with global-best version PSO and Von Neumann topology based PSO and its scalability on larger scale applications.
The precision and reliability of the synchronous prediction of multi energy consumption indicators such as electricity and coal consumption are important for the production optimization of industrial processes (e.g., in the cement industry) due to the deficiency of the coupling relationship of the two indicators while forecasting separately. However, the time lags, coupling, and uncertainties of production variables lead to the difficulty of multi-indicator synchronous prediction. In this paper, a data driven forecast approach combining moving window and multi-channel convolutional neural networks (MWMC-CNN) was proposed to predict electricity and coal consumption synchronously, in which the moving window was designed to extract the time-varying delay feature of the time series data to overcome its impact on energy consumption prediction, and the multi-channel structure was designed to reduce the impact of the redundant parameters between weakly correlated variables of energy prediction. The experimental results implemented by the actual raw data of the cement plant demonstrate that the proposed MWMC-CNN structure has a better performance than without the combination structure of the moving window multi-channel with convolutional neural network.
The establishment of isolated microgrid including wind power, storage and seawater desalination load is of significant important to the use of renewable energy and the supply of fresh water resources in island region. A real-time simulation platform based on PXI and PC is built to test the operation and control of the isolated microgrid in this paper. The digital simulation model is introduced and the coordinated control strategy of the microgrid is discussed in detail. This strategy makes use of the controllability of seawater desalination load, coordinates supercapacitor and lithium-ion battery energy storage so as to maintain the balance and stability of the isolated microgrid. Finally, the simulation results show that the correctness and feasibility of the proposed coordinated control strategy.
In a commodity market, revenue adequate prices refer to compensations that ensure that a market participant has a non-negative profit. In this article, we study the problem of deriving revenue adequate prices for an electricity market-clearing model with uncertainties resulting from the use of variable renewable energy sources (VRES). To handle the uncertain nature of the problem, we use a chance-constrained optimization (CCO) approach, which has recently become very popular choice when constructing dispatch electricity models with penetration of VRES (or other sources of uncertainty). Then, we show how prices that satisfy revenue adequacy in expectation for the market administrator, and cost recovery in expectation for all conventional and VRES generators, can be obtained from the optimal dual variables associated with the deterministic equivalent of the CCO market-clearing model. These results constitute a novel contribution to the research of research on revenue adequate, equilibrium, and other types of pricing schemes that have been derived in the literature when the market uncertainties are modeled using stochastic or robust optimization approaches. Unlike in the stochastic approach, the CCO market-clearing model studied here produces uncertainty uniform real-time prices that do not depend on the real-time realization of the VRES generation outcomes. To illustrate our results, we consider a case study electricity market, and contrast the market prices obtained using a revenue adequate stochastic approach and the proposed revenue adequate CCO approach.
Abstract Following the rapid growth of distributed energy resources (e.g., renewables, battery), localized peer-to-peer energy transactions are receiving more attention for multiple benefits, such as reducing power loss and stabilizing the main power grid. To promote distributed renewables locally, the local trading price is usually set to be within the external energy purchasing and selling price range. Consequently, building prosumers are motivated to trade energy through a local transaction center. This local energy transaction is modeled in bilevel optimization game. A selfish upper level agent is assumed with the privilege to set the internal energy transaction price with an objective of maximizing its arbitrage profit. Meanwhile, the building prosumers at the lower level will response to this transaction price and make decisions on electricity transaction amount. Therefore, this non-cooperative leader-follower trading game is seeking for equilibrium solutions on the energy transaction amount and prices. In addition, a uniform local transaction price structure (purchase price equals selling price) is considered here. Aiming at reducing the computational burden from classical Karush–Kuhn–Tucker (KKT) transformation and protecting the private information of each stakeholder (e.g., building), swarm intelligence-based solution approach is employed for upper level agent to generate trading price and coordinate the transactive operations. On one hand, to decrease the chance of premature convergence in global-best topology, Rubik’s Cube topology is proposed in this study based on further improvement of a two-dimensional square lattice model (i.e., one local-best topology-Von Neumann topology). Rotating operation of the cube is introduced to dynamically changing the neighborhood and enhancing information flow at the later searching state. Several groups of experiments are designed to evaluate the performance of proposed Rubik’s Cube topology-based particle swarm algorithm. The results have validated the effectiveness of proposed topology and operators comparing with global-best version PSO and Von Neumann topology-based PSO and its scalability on larger scale applications.