Mathematical representation of radiality constraint in distribution system reconfiguration problem

Distribution systems are most commonly operated in a radial configuration for a number of reasons. In order to impose radiality constraint in the optimal network reconfiguration problem, an efficient algorithm is introduced in this paper based on graph theory. The paper shows that the normally followed methods of imposing radiality constraint within a mixed-integer programming formulation of the reconfiguration problem may not be sufficient. The minimum-loss network reconfiguration problem is formulated using different ways to impose radiality constraint. It is shown, through simulations, that the formulated problem using the proposed method for representing radiality constraint can be solved more efficiently, as opposed to the previously proposed formulations. This results in up to 30% reduction in CPU time for the test systems used in this study.     

Optimization of Rolling Parameters for Enhancing Surface Integrity of Aluminum Alloy

In this current work, aluminum alloy grade 2024 is adopted as a plate material that is used in the rolling process with three different parameters including thickness reduction, forming temperature, and density of lubrication type. The experimental procedure of the rolling process is performed using the design of the experiment based on the Taguchi technique(L₂₇), then surface roughness, surface hardness, and surface residual stresses are measured. The results showed that the lubricat...     

An improved distribution network reconfiguration method based on minimum spanning tree algorithm and heuristic rules

This paper presents an improved distribution network reconfiguration method with the goal to minimize active power loss. The proposed method combines the minimum spanning tree (MST) algorithm and improved heuristic rules. It consists of three procedures. The first procedure calculates the branch (edge) weights with bus (vertex) voltages, and then carries out preliminary optimization with MST algorithm to get a local optimal solution. The second procedure gets alternative optimal solution based on the improved heuristic rules. Then during the third procedure, the optimal solution can generally be obtained through correcting the results. The algorithm does not rely on the initial network topology. The local optimal solution, solved by MST algorithm, provides a favorable initial condition for the subsequent optimization procedures. Further with the improved heuristic rules, the amount of the candidate switches can be significantly reduced. Two typical test systems, 33-bus system and 69-bus system, and a real 210-bus MV utility distribution system verified the feasibility and effectiveness of the proposed method. The method has higher efficiency and can be used to the large distribution systems.     

Novel Universal Windowing Multicarrier Waveform for 5G Systems

Fifth Generation (5G) systems aim to improve flexibility, coexistence and diverse service in several aspects to achieve the emerging applications requirements. Windowing and filtering of the traditional multicarrier waveforms are now considered common sense when designing more flexible waveforms. This paper proposed a Universal Windowing Multi-Carrier (UWMC) waveform design platform that is flexible, providing more easily coexists with different pulse shapes, and reduces the Out of Band Emissions (OOBE), which is generated by the traditional multicarrier methods that used in the previous generations of the mobile technology. The novel proposed approach is different from other approaches that have been proposed, and it is based on applying a novel modulation approach for the Quadrature-Amplitude Modulation (64-QAM) which is considered very popular in mobile technology. This new approach is done by employing flexible pulse shaping windowing, by assigning windows to various bands. This leads to decreased side-lobes, which are going to reduce OOBE and boost the spectral efficiency by assigning them to edge subscribers only. The new subband windowing (UWMC) will also maintain comprehensively the non-orthogonality by a variety of windowing and make sure to keep window time the same for all subbands. In addition, this paper shows that the new approach made the Bit Error Rate (BER) equal to the conventional Windowed-Orthogonal Frequency Division Multiplexing (W-OFDM). This platform achieved great improvement for some other Key Performance Indicators (KPI), such as the Peak to Average Power Ratio (PAPR) compared with the conventional (W-OFDM) and the conventional Universal Filtered Multicarrier (UFMC) approaches. In particular, the proposed windowing scheme outperforms previous designs in terms of the Power Spectral Density (PSD) by 58% and the (BER) by 1.5 dB and reduces the Complementary Cumulative Distribution Function Cubic Metric (CCDF-CM) by 24%.