Browsing by Author "Kenari, Meghdad Tourandaz"

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Probabilistic Approach To Assess and Minimize the Voltage Violation Risk in Active Distribution Networks
(Ieee, 2024) Kenari, Meghdad Tourandaz; Ozdemir, Aydogan; Heidari, Alireza
The increasing trend in using renewable energy resources in distribution systems has encouraged system operators to find the best methods to decrease the growing uncertainty's impact on system operation. A probabilistic approach based on the combination of Monte Carlo simulation and Particle Swarm Algorithm is proposed in this paper to reduce the risk of voltage magnitude violations. Also, a novel criterion is used to assess the risk of voltage magnitude violations in distribution system operation. This index is based on providing voltage samples using a probabilistic approach. Therefore, enhancing the confidence level of voltage risk is considered an objective function in finding the optimum location of energy storage systems. The proposed approach is applied to the IEEE 33-bus test system, and the results show that two ESS units installed at appropriate locations can solve all the voltage magnitude violation problems.
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Simultaneous Impacts of Correlated Photovoltaic Systems and Fast Electric Vehicle Charging Stations on the Operation of Active Distribution Grids
(Elsevier, 2024) Kenari, Meghdad Tourandaz; Ozdemir, Aydogan
This paper presents two novel probabilistic models developed to account for the uncertainties of aggregated fast electric vehicle charging stations (FEVCSs) demand and correlated photovoltaic (PV) injections in active distribution network (ADN) analysis. Both models are more precise than the available ones. A probabilistic model based on the Beta distribution is used for solar radiance, while the shared random variables technique is proposed considering correlated solar radiation random variables. Furthermore, a probabilistic negative exponential load model is extended for modeling the FEVCSs based on the Weibull probability density function. Moreover, the proposed probabilistic load flow (PLF) model is solved using the combined cumulants and saddle-point approximation method. Numerical tests are provided and discussed by applying the IEEE 69-bus distribution system for different PV correlation coefficients and FEVCS load models. The results demonstrate how the uncertainty of PLF outputs is increased by integrating FEVCSs and correlated PV resources into the distribution network. In addition, simulation results validate that the cumulants-based methodology provides satisfactory accuracy with a low computational cost.