Novel QO-PFA governed FO-type-II fuzzy controller for LFC of thermo-electric generator based hybrid power system

Abstract

The present article addresses various novel and advanced approaches to mitigate frequency oscillation issues in an integrated power system. The suggested model of the multi-source power system is basically a two-area power system, where area2 is completely a microgrid system. The diesel generator, thermo-electric generator, wind generator, solar PV system, micro-turbine and fuel cell are the basic power generating sources in the microgrid system. The microgrid also has been associated with various energy saving equipments like battery and flywheel energy storage (FES) system to improve the power quality of the system. The unpredictable wind speed variant and fluctuation in solar power incorporates oscillations in voltage and frequency profile of the interconnected power system. In challenging to above issues, this research article has designed an innovative Fractional Order-type-2 fuzzy controller (FO-T2FC) to supress unwanted errors in the frequency and voltage of the system. Further, the proposed controller parameters are selected optimally with suggesting a novel Quassi- Oppositional Path Finder Algorithm (QO-PFA) under different operatings. An analysis on relative study is exercised to validate strength of the FO-T2FC control strategy and QO-PFA algorithm. Owing to the performance analysis, it is justified that proposed QO-PFA designed FO-T2FC controller is proved to be most potential candidate and able to improve the dynamic frequency response of area1 (Δf1) by 251.74% and 418.74% as compared to Type1 fuzzy controller and conventional PID controller respectively.

Keywords

• Renewable energy sources
• Fractional order type-II fuzzy approach
• Thermo-electric generator
• Quassi-oppositional path finder algorithm (QO-PFA)
• Load frequency control
• Green energy source