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Abstract— This work is a maiden attempt to manage the with renewable energy harnessing for the city. The proposed
active power of an isolated renewable microgrid with Rooftop idea is to develop zone-wise distributed generation (DG) based
solar arrays, Micro-hydro generator, Biomass fired combined renewable microgrids that convert solid wastes and sewage
heat and power, Aqua-electrolyzer, and Fuel cells, by optimized water into electricity which could be supplied to meet the
load frequency control using a recent Salp Swarm Algorithm. domestic consumer demand of that zone only, supported with
The effort has put on to propose the mathematical model of a the power from rooftop solar photovoltaic (RSPV) arrays [1].
renewable microgrid generating power from solar irradiances, This may reduce loading of the conventional grids, which
urban solid wastes, and sewage waters of a smart city like provide power to industries, commercial buildings and bulk
Bhubaneswar, for a dual objective of power and waste
power consumers of the city.
management. The importance of choosing the above combination
of resources for microgrid is the effective co-compensation with The Ministry of New and Renewable Energy (MNRE),
climatic changes between solar PV and micro-hydro units India had initiated National Solar Mission programs to promote
naturally. Since sufficient solar energy is available during grid connected RSPV units [2]. Incorporating this mission, the
summer, but the water potential reduced subsequently for micro- power from solar energy could be harnessed during normal day
hydro power generation. In other hands, during monsoon, water time by the RSPV arrays mounted on roof of the taller
potential is highly available as rainwater adds to the sewage, but buildings of the city [3]. The municipal solid wastes of the city
there are insufficient sunrays for PV units. The Biomass-based
collected daily needs to be segregated as recyclable and non-
CHP is considered to give support to microgrid during non-
recyclable masses near the dumping yards. The non-recyclable
availability of solar energy. It becomes a great challenge to
coordinate between generation and load demand efficiently with
wastes could be used for power generation in Biomass fired
the considered sources of renewable energy due to their inherent combined heat and power (BCHP) plant after suitable
dependency towards climatic variations. To overcome this issue, processing and mixing with standard biomasses (such as
the responses of the system are studied for different scenarios of agricultural residues) [4]. The wastes after incineration reduced
renewable sources availability and load changes for optimal to small fraction of the original and these BCHP residues could
frequency control. The proposed microgrid is simulated with be used for land fill, thereby reducing the chances of
MATLAB-Simulink for four different scenarios and the environmental pollution of the city.
optimized responses are reported to be competent in maintaining
The waste waters of every household of a specific zone of
power frequency within the acceptable limit.
city could be channelized to a common sewage canal and
Keywords— Aqua-electrolyzer, Combined heat and power, Fuel stored in a small reservoir, outskirt of the city for settling down
cell, Micro-hydro power, Rooftop solar PV, Salp swarm algorithm. the dissolved wastes, and prior water treatment. A small-head
dam could be constructed on that reservoir and power could be
generated using Micro-hydro turbine generator (MHTG) units,
I. INTRODUCTION from those treated waste waters before they flow to the
Bhubaneswar, the capital city of Odisha is developing as mainstream or river [5]. This reduces the chances of river water
one of the smart city of our country. It’s historic monuments, pollution. The excess power produced with multiple MHTG
rich heritage and urbanisation attracts people from different units during rainy days could be utilized by an Aqua-
corners of the country as well as the foreign tourists, which electrolizer plant (AE) to produce Hydrogen (H2) gas and
intensify population density in the city day-by-day. This leads stored, to be used as fuel in Hydrogen Fuel Cell (FC) units
to various socio-ecological issues in the city. Some major during peak demand hours [6, 7]. There is possibility of such
issues for a smart city are reliable power management, proper microgrids for Bhubaneswar, near Kuakhai and Daya rivers,
waste management, and suitable communication facilitation close to dumping yards or at the ends of sewage canals
etc. This paper attempts to discuss some short of resolution depending on the availability of land, resources and other
towards first two issues using waste to energy concepts along feasible aspects.
§ tsim
1 ·§ 1 + sTRS ·§ 1 − sTHT ·
GMHTG ( s) = ¨¨ ¸¨
¸¨ ¸¨
¸¨ 1 + 0.5sT ¸¸ (3) Minimize, J= ³0 t §¨ Δf ·¸ dt
© 1 + sTHG ¹ © 1 + sTRH ¹© HT ¹ © ¹
K P min ≤ K P ≤ K P max (9)
C. Biomass fired combined heat and power (BCHP) unit
The linearized transfer function model of solid waste based subject to : K I min ≤ K I ≤ K I max
BCHP unit may be formulated as (4), with reference to the K D min ≤ K D ≤ K D max
conventional fossil fuel fired thermal generation system,
considering the function of speed governor, re-heater and steam The values of all the parameters considered for designing
turbine [11, 12]. the proposed system are listed in table I with their
nomenclatures. The linearized model of proposed system
§ 1 · § 1 + sK RTR ·§ 1 · shown in Fig. 2, is simulated with SSA to minimise the
GBCHP (s) = ¨¨ ¸¸ ¨¨ ¸¸ ¨¨ ¸¸ (4) objective function given in (9). The concept of SSA algorithm
© 1 + sTBSG ¹ © 1 + sTR ¹ © 1 + sTBCT ¹ is briefly discussed in III.
D. Aqua-electrolyser & Fuel cell units TABLE I. NOMENCLATURE AND VALUES OF DESIGN PARAMETERS
The AE unit absorbs surplus power of microgrid during off- Symbols Nomenclatures Values
peak hours, via an AC-DC converter to generate Hydrogen (H2)
gases. Those H2 gases are stored to be used as fuel in the FC KRSPV, TRSPV The gain and time constants of RSPV unit 1.0, 1.8s
unit for generating power during peak hours and fed to
microgrid via DC-AC converter. The linearized transfer Speed governor and Turbine time
THG, THT 0.2s, 1.0s
constants of MHTG unit
function model of AE & FC units may be expressed as (5) and
Governer reset and transient droop time
(6) respectively [6, 7]. TRS, TRH
constants of MHTG unit
5s, 28.75s
K AE Speed governor and Turbine time
GAE ( s) = (5) TSGB, TBCT 0.08s, 0.3s
1 + sTAE constants of BCHP unit
Reheat gain and reheat time constants of
K FC KBR, TBR BCHP unit
0.3, 10s
GFC ( s) = (6)
1 + sTFC KFC, TFC The gain and time constants of FC unit 0.01, 4.0s
E. System Dynamics and Generator model KAE, TAE The gain and time constants of AE unit 0.002, 0.5s
The net change in power at any instant for each microgrid M, D
Equivalent inertia and damping constants
0.2, 0.012
of the proposed system may be estimated as (7), of microgrid
Frequency droop factor of microgrid
ΔPe = PRSPV + PMHTG + PBCHP + PFC − PAE − PdL (7) R 2.4
(Hz/p.u.MW)
Frequency deviations (Hz) and Net load
where, corresponding subscript defines the power for Δf, PdL --
demands (p.u.) of microgrid
respective units, and the equivalent generator dynamics model
for the overall system of the microgrid can be formulated as (8) tsim Simulation time in seconds 120s
[11].
III. SALP SWARM ALGORITHM
Δf 1
= = GSYS ( s) (8) Salps are barrel-shaped, planktonic tunicates belonging to
ΔPe D + sM order Salpida and family Salpidae. They often form a swarm
called salp chain in deep sea as shown in Fig. 3, for achieving
F. Objective function formulation better locomotion using rapid coordinated changes and foraging
[10].
The proposed system consists of two controllers;
Controller1 is deployed to control the power output of MHTG The behaviour of Salps chain is mathematically modelled as
and BCHP units, whereas Controller2, controls the function of SSA by S. Mirjalili [10], considering two groups. The salp at
AE and FC units. Classical PID controllers are chosen for the front of chain guides the swarm, called leader and the rest
those two, due to their simple construction and reliable called followers, follow the leader salp successively around the
performances [12]. Since, the Integral of Time-weighted food source following each other.
absolute error (ITAE) provides better performance in
minimizing overshoots and oscillations than Integral squared The population of salps in a swarm with N search agents
error (ISE) and Integral absolute error (IAE) [12]. The could be mathematically initialized by (10), considering upper
objective function is formulated as (9) considering ITAE and lower bounds (lb & ub) for ith dimension over total number
criteria for the proposed system to tune PID controller gains. of parameters dim, as dimensions.
X i = lbi + (ubi − lbi )rand () (10)
IEEE International Conference on Technologies for Smart-City Energy Security and Power (ICSESP-2018), March 28-30, 2018, Bhubaneswar, India
The position update of the leader salp Xj1 with respect to the
target food source Fj in jth dimension is formulated as in (11),
considering two random numbers c2 and c3 [10].
Optimized
Case-1 Case-2 Case-3 Case-4
parameter
Jmin 38.7902 35.3395 180.0595 86.5721
Kp2 -657.7553 -476.5138 998.6026 -994.9653 Fig. 8. Contribution of MHTG, BCHP and FC units to Load demand
D. Case – 4: Response to frequently varying load MHTG and BCHP units to generate rated power. This could be
This case is assumed for the extreme scenario with reduced by incorporating a diesel unit in the microgrid as it
frequently varying loads due to switching of heavy starts generating rated power with less time. The work could be
equipment/loads in the microgrid. The contribution of MHTG, further extended for LFC of interconnected renewable
RSPV and FC units are simulated, considering a varying load microgrids in future studies.
that initially dropped to 10% till t=20s, then rises 5%, again
increases 10% at t=40s, remained 100% from t=60s to 80s, and VI. ACKNOWLEDGMENT
then drops 10% as shown in Fig. 12. The initial frequency Authors extend hearty thanks to Electrical Engineering
response settles before 10s and maintained throughout as department, & TEQIP-III, NIT Silchar, for providing all
shown in Fig. 13, with small ripples during each load change, supports and funding towards completion of this work.
whose zoomed views are inset at each point of change.
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