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Sizing Optimization of Large-Scale Grid-Connected Photovoltaic System Using Cuckoo Search

10.11591/ijeecs.v8.i1.pp169-176
Muhammad Zakyizzuddin Bin Rosselan , Shahril Irwan Sulaiman , Ismail Musirin
This study presents the development of Cuckoo Search (CS)-based sizing algorithm for sizing optimization of 5MW large-scale Grid-Connected Photovoltaic (GCPV) systems. CS was used to select the optimal combination of the system components which are PV module and inverter such that the Performance Ratio (PR) is correspondingly optimized. The oversized and undersized of this large-scale GCPV system can give huge impact towards the performanceof this system. Before incorporating the optimization methods, a sizing algorithm for large-scale GCPV systems was developed. Later, an Iterative-based Sizing Algorithm (ISA) was developed to determine the optimal sizing solution which was later used as benchmark for sizing algorithms using optimization methods.The results showed that the CS-based sizing algorithm was unable to found the optimal PR for the system if compared with ISA. However, CS was outperformed ISA in producing the lowest computation time in finding the optimal sizing solution.
Volume: 8
Issue: 1
Page: 169-176
Publish at: 2017-10-01

The Application of Modified Least Trimmed Squares with Genetic Algorithms Method in Face Recognition

10.11591/ijeecs.v8.i1.pp154-158
Nur Azimah Abdul Rahim , Nor Azura Md. Ghani , Norazan Mohamed , Hishamuddin Hashim , Ismail Musirin
Severely occluded face images are the main problem in low performance of face recognition algorithms. In this paper, we apply a new algorithm, a modified version of the least trimmed squares (LTS) with a genetic algorithms introduce by [1]. We focused on the application of modified LTS with genetic algorithm method for face image recognition. This algorithm uses genetic algorithms to construct a basic subset rather than selecting the basic subset randomly. The modification in this method lessens the number of trials to obtain the minimum of the LTS objective function. This method was then applied to two benchmark datasets with clean and occluded query images. The performance of this method was measured by recognition rates. The AT&T dataset and Yale Dataset with different image pixel sizes were used to assess the method in performing face recognition. The query images were contaminated with salt and pepper noise. The modified LTS with GAs method is applied in face recognition framework by using the contaminated images as query image in the context of linear regression. By the end of this study, we can determine this either this method can perform well in dealing with occluded images or vice versa.
Volume: 8
Issue: 1
Page: 154-158
Publish at: 2017-10-01

Lightning Strike Impacts on Hybrid Photovoltaic-Wind System

10.11591/ijeecs.v8.i1.pp115-121
Zmnako Mohammed , Hashim Hizam , Chandima Gomes
Study the impacts of lightning-induced transient overvoltage on a hybrid PV-Wind system has been addressed in this work. Overvoltage that is generated due to lightning stroke travels along the system where it can be very harmful to the expensive equipment of the system such as PV models, inverters, charge controllers, batteries, transformers, generator. etc. The simulation model of a system has been completed by using PSCAD/EMTDC software. The system comprises of 2 MW PV farm, battery system, 2.1 MW wind farm and loads which are all connected to the common AC bus and then to the utility grid through an interfacing transformer. Lightning current is generated by using the double exponential function, From the simulation results, when the lightning current is injected to the AC and DC sides of PV system, the transient current and voltage have appeared at different points of the hybrid system. The results were obtained for 8/20 μs and 10/350 μs standards lightning waveforms with current magnitude of 100 kA.
Volume: 8
Issue: 1
Page: 115-121
Publish at: 2017-10-01

Multi Objective Directed Bee Colony Optimization for Economic Load Dispatch With Enhanced Power Demand and Valve Point Loading

10.11591/ijece.v7i5.pp2382-2391
S.K. Gachhayat , Saroj Kumar Dash , Priyambada Ray
Earlier economic emission dispatch methods for optimizing emission level comprising carbon monoxide, nitrous oxide and sulpher dioxide in thermal generation, made use of soft computing techniques like fuzzy,neural network,evolutionary programming,differential evolution and particle swarm optimization etc..The above methods incurred comparatively more transmission loss.So looking into the nonlinear load behavior of unbalanced systems following differential load pattern prevalent in tropical countries like India,Pakistan and Bangladesh etc.,the erratic variation of enhanced power demand is of immense importance which is included in this paper vide multi objective directed bee colony optimization with enhanced power demand to optimize transmission losses to a desired level.In the current dissertation making use of multi objective directed bee colony optimization with enhanced power demand technique the emission level versus cost of generation has been displayed vide figure-3 & figure-4 and this result has been compared with other dispatch methods using valve point loading(VPL) and multi objective directed bee colony optimization with & without transmission loss.
Volume: 7
Issue: 5
Page: 2382-2391
Publish at: 2017-10-01

A Novel Integrated Framework to Ensure Better Data Quality in Big Data Analytics over Cloud Environment

10.11591/ijece.v7i5.pp2798-2805
C.S. Sindhu , Nagaratna P. Hegde
With advent of Big Data Analytics, the healthcare system is increasingly adopting the analytical services that is ultimately found to generate massive load of highly unstructured data. We reviewed the existing system to find that there are lesser number of solutions towards addressing the problems of data variety, data uncertainty, and data speed. It is important that an error-free data should arrive in analytics. Existing system offers single-hand solution towards single platform. Therefore, we introduced an integrated framework that has the capability to address all these three problems in one execution time. Considering the synthetic big data of healthcare, we carried out the investigation to find that our proposed system using deep learning architecture offers better optimization of computational resources. The study outcome is found to offer comparatively better response time and higher accuracy rate as compared to existing optimization technqiues that is found and practiced widely in literature.
Volume: 7
Issue: 5
Page: 2798-2805
Publish at: 2017-10-01

Economic Dispatch Using Quantum Evolutionary Algorithm in Electrical Power System Involving Distributed Generators

10.11591/ijece.v7i5.pp2365-2373
Ni Ketut Aryani , Adi Soeprijanto , I Made Yulistya Negara , Mat Syai’in
Unpredictable increase in power demands will overload the supply subsystems and insufficiently powered systems will suffer from instabilities, in which voltages drop below acceptable levels. Additional power sources are needed to satisfy the demand. Small capacity distributed generators (DGs) serve for this purpose well. One advantage of DGs is that they can be installed close to loads, so as to minimise loses. Optimum placements and sizing of DGs are critical to increase system voltages and to reduce loses. This will finally increase the overall system efficiency. This work exploits Quantum Evolutionary Algorithm (QEA) for the placements and sizing. This optimisation targets the cheapest generation cost. Quantum Evolutionary Algorithm is an Evolutionary Algorithm running on quantum computing, which works based on qubits and states superposition of quantum mechanics. Evolutionary algorithm with qubit representation has a better characteristic of diversity than classical approaches, since it can represent superposition of states.
Volume: 7
Issue: 5
Page: 2365-2373
Publish at: 2017-10-01

Shape Defect Detection using Local Standard Deviation and Rule-Based Classifier for Bottle Quality Inspection

10.11591/ijeecs.v8.i1.pp107-114
Norhashimah Mohd Saad , Nor Nabilah Syazana Abdul Rahma , Abdul Rahim Abdullah , Mohd Juzaila Abd Latif
This paper presents shape analysis using Local Standard Deviation (LSD) technique to detect shape defect of the bottle for product quality inspection. The proposed analysis framework includes segmentation, feature extraction, and classification. The shape of the bottle was segmented using LSD technique in order to obtain higher enhancement at the low contrast area and low enhancement at the high contrast area. The contrast gain that was applied in Adaptive Contrast Enhancement (ACE) algorithm, was presented inversely proportional to LSD in order to detect and eliminate background noise at the bottle edge. After the segmentation process, the parameters of the bottle shape such as height, width, area, and extent were extracted and applied in classification stage. The rule-based classifier was used to classify the shape of the bottle either good or defect. The offline experimental results exhibit superior segmentation on performance with 100% accuracy for 100 sample images. This shows that the LSD could be an effective technique to monitor the product quality.
Volume: 8
Issue: 1
Page: 107-114
Publish at: 2017-10-01

Stochastic Approach of Voltage Optimization to Maximize Power Saving in a Building

10.11591/ijeecs.v8.i1.pp268-272
Aainaa Mohd Arriffin , Muhammad Murtadha Othman , Amirul Asyraf Mohd Kamaruzaman , Ismail Musirin , Ainor Yahya , Mohd Fuad Abdul Latip
This paper presents the energy saving analysis by using voltage optimization technique, via Stochastic approach in an unbalanced three phase building distribution system. The voltage optimization technique is performed by installing voltage regulator units connected in series with every incoming transformer with optimize tap setting, via Stochastic approach using MATLAB® and SIMULINK® software. The results show a substantial improvement in terms of overall cost of energy consumption compared to the base case.
Volume: 8
Issue: 1
Page: 268-272
Publish at: 2017-10-01

Raman Pumping as an Energy Efficient Solution for NyWDM Flexible-grid Elastic Optical Networks

10.11591/ijece.v7i5.pp2627-2634
Arsalan Ahmad , Andrea Bianco , Vittorio Curri , Guido Marchetto , Sarosh Tahir
This paper investigates transparent wavelength routed optical networks using three different fiber types NZDSF, SMF and PSCF - and validates the effectiveness of Hybrid Raman/EDFA Fiber Amplification (HFA) with different pumping levels, up to the moderate 60% pumping regime. Nodes operate on the basis of flexible-grid elastic NyWDM transponders able to adapt the modulation format to the quality-of-transmission of the available lightpath, exploiting up to five 12.5 GHz spectral slots. Results consider a 37- node Pan-European network for variable Raman pumping level, span length and average traffic per node. We show that HFA in moderate pumping regime reduces the power consumption and enhances spectral efficiency for all three fiber types with particular evidence in NZDSF. In essence to that, introduction of HFA is also beneficial to avoid blocking for higher traffic loads.
Volume: 7
Issue: 5
Page: 2627-2634
Publish at: 2017-10-01

Loss Of Excitation (LOE) Protection of Synchronous Generator

10.11591/ijeecs.v8.i1.pp230-236
Hui Hwang Goh , Sy yi Sim , Mohd. Nasri Abd Samat , Ahmad Mahmoud Mohamed , Chin Wan Ling , Qing Shi Chua , Kai Chen Goh
Synchronous generators require certain protection against loss of excitation because it can lead to harmful effect to a generator and main grid. Systems of powers are evolving with applications of new techniques to increase reliability and security, at the meantime techniques upgradation is being existed to save financial cost of a different component of power system, which affect protection ways this report discuss the way of loss of excitation protection scheme for an increase in a synchronous generator. It is obvious that when direct axis synchronous reactance has a high value, the coordination among loss of excitation protection and excitation control is not effective. This lead to restricting absorption capability of the reactive power generator. This report also reviews the suitable philosophy for setting the limiters of excitation and discusses its effect on loss of excitation protection and system performance. A protection scheme is developed to allow for utilization of machine capability and power swing blocking is developed to increase the reliability when power swing is stable. 
Volume: 8
Issue: 1
Page: 230-236
Publish at: 2017-10-01

Pulse Density Modulation Flyback Converter for LED Automotive Lighting

10.11591/ijeecs.v8.i1.pp85-91
Shinde Rohit , Ramachandiran Gunabalan , Mehtra Pavan Kumar
 Switched mode power supply (SMPS) converter is a dc-dc power electronic converter which is used to step up or step down the dc output voltage. A dimmable driver circuit for Light Emitting Diode (LED) lamp for automotive lighting with dimming feature is used in this paper. A flyback converter is used as a driver circuit operated in discontinuous conduction mode to perform dimming control of LEDs. High overall circuit efficiency is achieved by regulating the current through the LED lamps using pulse density modulation scheme. The LED driver circuit design and operating principle is discussed in detail. A gentle current control feature is achieved by pulse density modulation technique. The high performance driver circuit is designed for 25 W LED lamps.
Volume: 8
Issue: 1
Page: 85-91
Publish at: 2017-10-01

Identity-Based Blind Signature Scheme with Message Recovery

10.11591/ijece.v7i5.pp2674-2682
Salome James , T. Gowri , G.V. Ramesh Babu , P. Vasudeva Reddy
Blind signature allows a user to obtain a signature on a message without revealing anything about the message to the signer. Blind signatures play an important role in many real world applications such as e-voting, e-cash system where anonymity is of great concern. Due to the rapid growth in popularity of both wireless communications and mobile devices, the design of secure schemes with low-bandwidth capability is an important research issue. In this paper, we present a new blind signature scheme with message recovery in the ID-based setting using bilinear pairings over elliptic curves. The proposed scheme is unforgeable with the assumption that the Computational Diffie-Hellman problem is hard. We compare our scheme with the related schemes in terms of computational and communicational point of view.
Volume: 7
Issue: 5
Page: 2674-2682
Publish at: 2017-10-01

Enhanced BFGS Quasi-Newton Backpropagation Models on MCCI Data

10.11591/ijeecs.v8.i1.pp101-106
Nor Azura Md. Ghani , Saadi Ahmad Kamaruddin , Norazan Mohammed Ramli , Ismail Musirin , Hishamuddin Hashim
Neurocomputing is widely implemented in time series area, however the nearness of exceptions that for the most part happen in information time arrangement might be hurtful to the information organize preparing. This is on the grounds that the capacity to consequently discover any examples without earlier suppositions and loss of all-inclusive statement. In principle, the most well-known preparing calculation for Backpropagation calculations inclines toward lessening ordinary least squares estimator (OLS) or all the more particularly, the mean squared error (MSE). In any case, this calculation is not completely hearty when exceptions exist in preparing information, and it will prompt false estimate future esteem. Along these lines, in this paper, we show another calculation that control calculations firefly on slightest middle squares estimator (FFA-LMedS) for BFGS quasi-newton backpropagation neural network nonlinear autoregressive moving (BPNN-NARMA) model to lessen the effect of exceptions in time arrangement information. In the in the mean time, the monthly data of Malaysian Roof Materials cost index from January 1980 to December 2012 (base year 1980=100) with various level of exceptions issue is adjusted in this examination. Toward the finish of this paper, it was found that the upgraded BPNN-NARMA models utilizing FFA-LMedS performed extremely well with RMSE values just about zero errors. It is expected that the finding would help the specialists in Malaysian development activities to handle cost indices data accordingly.
Volume: 8
Issue: 1
Page: 101-106
Publish at: 2017-10-01

A Novel Optimization towards Higher Reliability in Predictive Modelling towards Code Reusability

10.11591/ijece.v7i5.pp2855-2862
Manoj H.M. , Nandakumar A.N.
Although, the area of software engineering has made a remarkable progress in last decade but there is less attention towards the concept of code reusability in this regards.Code reusability is a subset of Software Reusability which is one of the signature topics in software engineering. We review the existing system to find that there is no progress or availability of standard research approach toward code reusability being introduced in last decade. Hence, this paper introduced a predictive framework that is used for optimizing the performance of code reusability. For this purpose, we introduce a case study of near real-time challenge and involved it in our modelling. We apply neural network and Damped-Least square algorithm to perform optimization with a sole target to compute and ensure highest possible reliability. The study outcome of our model exhibits higher reliability and better computational response time.
Volume: 7
Issue: 5
Page: 2855-2862
Publish at: 2017-10-01

Evaluation of Standard Reference Environment for Photovoltaic Nominal Operating Cell Temperature Testing in Malaysia

10.11591/ijeecs.v8.i1.pp245-252
M. M. M. Hanifah , H. Zainuddin , M. Z. Hussin
This paper presents six months evaluation in determining Standard Reference Environment (SRE) for Photovoltaic (PV) Nominal Operating Cell Temperature (NOCT) testing of IEC61215 and IEC61646 that suits Malaysian climate. The SRE is established based on the median environmental conditions in Malaysia when solar PV is producing power. The site of the study is located at the Energy and Environment Field Lab, Universiti Teknologi MARA (UiTM) Shah Alam(3.066239ºN, 101.491685ºE). Three types of PV module technologies involved are monocrystalline, polycrystalline and copper indium diselenide (CIS) thin film. The experimental setup is a test bed that meets the IEC61215, IEC61646 and IEC61724 requirements. The measurements of        module temperature (MT) and open circuit voltage (VOC) are taken simultaneously for the three PV module technologies together with other ambient parameters of solar irradiance(SI), ambient temperature(AT), relative humidity(RH), wind speed (Ws) and wind direction(Wd). The data set is taken for a six months period from February 2017 to July 2017. Based on the results obtained, a new proposed SRE of NOCT testing for IEC61215 and IEC61646 has been established to suit Malaysian climate. The SI and AT values for the SRE are 300W/m2 and 31°C respectively.
Volume: 8
Issue: 1
Page: 245-252
Publish at: 2017-10-01
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