A Modified Bird-Mating Optimization with Hill-Climbing for Connection Decisions of Transformers

Energies

Volumn 9, Issue 9, 2016, Pages

  Ou, Ting Chia ^a   Su, Wei Fu ^b   Liu, Xian Zong ^c   Huang, Shyh Jier ^c   Tai, Te Yu ^c  

^a Institution of Nuclear Energy Research   (Taiwan)

^b KUN SHAN UNIVERSITY   (Taiwan)

^c NATIONAL CHENG KUNG UNIVERSITY   (Taiwan)

Author keywords

And voltage deviation; Bird mating optimization; Voltage imbalance

Indexed keywords

ELECTRIC POWER TRANSMISSION NETWORKS; ELECTRIC TRANSFORMERS; OPTIMIZATION;

AND VOLTAGE DEVIATION; BIRD-MATING OPTIMIZATION; DISTRIBUTION TRANSFORMER; HILL CLIMBING; MATINGS; OPTIMISATIONS; OPTIMIZATION APPROACH; POWER; VOLTAGE DEVIATIONS; VOLTAGE IMBALANCE;

BIRDS;

EID: 84990917544     PISSN: None     EISSN: 19961073     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.3390/en9090671     Document Type: Article

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