Scholarship & Research
Permanent URI for this communityhttps://scholarworks.montana.edu/handle/1/1
Browse
3 results
Search Results
Item A Load Profile Management Integrated Power Dispatch Using a Newton-Like Particle Swarm Optimization Method(2014-10) Wang, Caisheng; Miller, Carol J.; Nehrir, M. Hashem; Sheppard, John W.; McElmurry, Shawn P.Load profile management (LPM) is an effective demand side management (DSM) tool for power system operation and management. This paper introduces an LPM integrated electric power dispatch algorithm to minimize the overall production cost over a given period under study by considering both fuel cost and emission factors. A Newton-like particle swarm optimization (PSO) algorithm has been developed to implement the LPM integrated optimal power dispatch. The proposed Newton-like method is embedded into the PSO algorithm to help handle equality constraints while penalty/fitness functions are used to deal with inequality constraints. In addition to illustrative example applications of the proposed Newton-like PSO technique, the optimization method has been used to realize the LPM integrated optimal power dispatch for the IEEE RTS 96 system. Simulation studies have been carried out for different scenarios with different levels of load management. The simulation results show that the LPM can help reduce generation costs and emissions. The results also verify the effectiveness of the proposed Newton-like PSO method.Item Active learning animations for the theory of computation(Montana State University - Bozeman, College of Engineering, 2002) Grinder, Michael ThomasItem VideSupra : an astrophysics simulator(Montana State University - Bozeman, College of Engineering, 2011) Nelson, Grant Jared; Chairperson, Graduate Committee: Denbigh StarkeyFor small satellite development groups building, testing and launching satellites can be very expensive. Since satellites can have no physical contact while in space testing satellites before launch is very important. To test satellites at low cost software simulation should be used. Several professional software simulation packages exist but they can be expensive to licensed and be trained for. The goal of this paper is to describe a free open source astrophysics simulator that can be used for testing and prototyping. The simulator must be flexible and customizable so that it can be modified for each satellite project. The solution is VideSupra. VideSupra is a software simulator with a built in package for astrophysics simulation. VideSupra is a plug and play application so can be quickly modified and extended as needed. For small satellite development groups VideSupra will provide the needed low cost testing tool.