Penghui Liu^1,2,*, Yaning Zhang¹, Yuxing Dai², Yanzhou Sun^1,3

Energy Engineering, Vol.121, No.7, pp. 1883-1901, 2024, DOI:10.32604/ee.2024.049318

Abstract Arc grounding faults occur frequently in the power grid with small resistance grounding neutral points. The existing arc fault identification technology only uses the fault line signal characteristics to set the identification index, which leads to detection failure when the arc zero-off characteristic is short. To solve this problem, this paper presents an arc fault identification method by utilizing integrated signal characteristics of both the fault line and sound lines. Firstly, the waveform characteristics of the fault line and sound lines under an arc grounding fault are studied. After that, the convex hull, gradient product,… More >

Jicai Guo^1,2, Xiaowen Song^1,2,*, Chang Liu^1,2, Yanfeng Zhang^1,2, Shijie Guo^1,2, Jianxin Wu^1,2, Chang Cai³, Qing’an Li^3,*

Energy Engineering, Vol.121, No.7, pp. 1739-1758, 2024, DOI:10.32604/ee.2024.048854

Abstract In winter, wind turbines are susceptible to blade icing, which results in a series of energy losses and safe operation problems. Therefore, blade icing detection has become a top priority. Conventional methods primarily rely on sensor monitoring, which is expensive and has limited applications. Data-driven blade icing detection methods have become feasible with the development of artificial intelligence. However, the data-driven method is plagued by limited training samples and icing samples; therefore, this paper proposes an icing warning strategy based on the combination of feature selection (FS), eXtreme Gradient Boosting (XGBoost) algorithm, and exponentially weighted… More >

Yan Zhang¹, Bowen Du^2,*, Benren Pan¹, Guannan Wang¹, Guoqiang Xie¹, Tong Jiang²

Energy Engineering, Vol.121, No.7, pp. 1903-1920, 2024, DOI:10.32604/ee.2024.048718

Abstract During faults in a distribution network, the output power of a distributed generation (DG) may be uncertain. Moreover, the output currents of distributed power sources are also affected by the output power, resulting in uncertainties in the calculation of the short-circuit current at the time of a fault. Additionally, the impacts of such uncertainties around short-circuit currents will increase with the increase of distributed power sources. Thus, it is very important to develop a method for calculating the short-circuit current while considering the uncertainties in a distribution network. In this study, an affine arithmetic algorithm… More >

Yang Xiong^1,2, Jianxin Liu^1,2,*, Xianhao Yi², Bangyan Xiao², Dan Wu², Biao Wu², Chunyu Gao²

Energy Engineering, Vol.121, No.7, pp. 1759-1780, 2024, DOI:10.32604/ee.2024.048536

Abstract In the heterogeneous reservoirs, CO₂ flooding easily leads to CO₂ gas channeling, which can seriously affect sweeping efficiency and reduce oil recovery. After thoroughly investigating the advantages and shortcomings of various CO₂ plugging technologies, this paper focuses on the feasibility of improving conventional water-alternating gas (WAG) through CO₂-responsive gel materials. Based on the different chemical reaction mechanisms between the unique chemical structure and CO₂, changes in the material’s physical and chemical properties can respond to CO₂. The feasibility of utilizing these property changes for CO₂-responsive plugging is explored. Various CO₂-responsive gels and gel nanoparticles have been extensively researched in More >

Xiaodan Wu¹, Jie Li^1,*, Yongbin Cai², Sihui Huang¹

Energy Engineering, Vol.121, No.7, pp. 1963-1990, 2024, DOI:10.32604/ee.2024.048477

Abstract Aiming at the problems of large energy consumption and serious pollution of winter heating existing in the rural buildings in Southern Xinjiang, a combined active-passive heating system was proposed, and the simulation software was used to optimize the parameters of the system, according to the parameters obtained from the optimization, a test platform was built and winter heating test was carried out. The simulation results showed that the thickness of the air layer of 75 mm, the total area of the vent holes of 0.24 m, and the thickness of the insulation layer of 120… More >

Xin Shen¹, Jiahao Li¹, Yujun Yin¹, Jianlin Tang^2,3,*, Weibin Lin^2,3, Mi Zhou^2,3

Energy Engineering, Vol.121, No.7, pp. 1945-1961, 2024, DOI:10.32604/ee.2024.048388

Abstract Advanced carbon emission factors of a power grid can provide users with effective carbon reduction advice, which is of immense importance in mobilizing the entire society to reduce carbon emissions. The method of calculating node carbon emission factors based on the carbon emissions flow theory requires real-time parameters of a power grid. Therefore, it cannot provide carbon factor information beforehand. To address this issue, a prediction model based on the graph attention network is proposed. The model uses a graph structure that is suitable for the topology of the power grid and designs a supervised More >

Ying Qu¹, Jinhao Wang¹, Xueting Cheng¹, Jie Hao¹, Weiru Wang¹, Zhewen Niu², Yuxiang Wu^2,*

Energy Engineering, Vol.121, No.7, pp. 1847-1863, 2024, DOI:10.32604/ee.2024.048300

Abstract The data-driven transient stability assessment (TSA) of power systems can predict online real-time prediction by learning the temporal features before and after faults. However, the accuracy of the assessment is limited by the quality of the data and has weak transferability. Based on this, this paper proposes a method for TSA of power systems based on an improved extreme gradient boosting (XGBoost) model. Firstly, the gradient detection method is employed to remove noise interference while maintaining the original time series trend. On this basis, a focal loss function is introduced to guide the training of… More >

Jie Ma¹, Pengcheng Yue², Haozheng Yu¹, Yuqing Zhang³, Youwen Zhang¹, Cuiping Li³, Junhui Li^3,*, Wenwen Qin³, Yong Guo¹

Energy Engineering, Vol.121, No.7, pp. 1823-1846, 2024, DOI:10.32604/ee.2024.048225

Abstract In recent years, the proportion of installed wind power in the three north regions where wind power bases are concentrated is increasing, but the peak regulation capacity of the power grid in the three north regions of China is limited, resulting in insufficient local wind power consumption capacity. Therefore, this paper proposes a two-layer optimal scheduling strategy based on wind power consumption benefits to improve the power grid's wind power consumption capacity. The objective of the upper model is to minimize the peak-valley difference of the system load, which is mainly to optimize the system… More >

Feng Zhao, Guangdi Liu^*, Xiaoqiang Chen, Ying Wang

Energy Engineering, Vol.121, No.7, pp. 1865-1882, 2024, DOI:10.32604/ee.2024.048209

Abstract In light of the prevailing issue that the existing convolutional neural network (CNN) power quality disturbance identification method can only extract single-scale features, which leads to a lack of feature information and weak anti-noise performance, a new approach for identifying power quality disturbances based on an adaptive Kalman filter (KF) and multi-scale channel attention (MS-CAM) fused convolutional neural network is suggested. Single and composite-disruption signals are generated through simulation. The adaptive maximum likelihood Kalman filter is employed for noise reduction in the initial disturbance signal, and subsequent integration of multi-scale features into the conventional CNN… More >

Razieh Keshavarzi, Mehdi Jahangiri^*

Energy Engineering, Vol.121, No.6, pp. 1381-1401, 2024, DOI:10.32604/ee.2024.050029

Abstract Nowadays, the use of renewable energies, especially wind, solar, and biomass, is essential as an effective solution to address global environmental and economic challenges. Therefore, the current study examines the energy-economic-environmental analysis of off-grid electricity generation systems using solar panels, wind turbines, and biomass generators in various weather conditions in Iran. Simulations over 25 years were conducted using HOMER v2.81 software, aiming to determine the potential of each region and find the lowest cost of electricity production per kWh. In the end, to identify the most suitable location, the Technique for Order Preference by Similarity… More > Graphic Abstract