The Application of Water Cycle Optimization Algorithm for Optimal Placement of Wind Turbines in Wind Farms

Hegazy Rezk, Ahmed Fathy, Ahmed A. Zaki Diab and Mujahed Al-Dhaifallah
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Hegazy Rezk: College of Engineering at Wadi Addawaser, Prince Sattam Bin Abdulaziz University, Al-Kharj 11991, Saudi Arabia
Ahmed Fathy: Electrical Engineering Department, Faculty of Engineering, Jouf University, Sakakah 42421, Saudi Arabia
Ahmed A. Zaki Diab: Electrical Engineering Department, Faculty of Engineering, Minia University, Al Minya 61519, Egypt
Mujahed Al-Dhaifallah: Systems Engineering Department, King Fahd University of Petroleum and Minerals, Dhahran 31261, Saudi Arabia

Energies, 2019, vol. 12, issue 22, 1-19

Abstract: Wind farms (WFs) include an enormous number of wind turbines (WTs) in order to achieve high capacity. The interaction among WTs reduces the extracted amount of wind energy because wind speed decreases in the wake region. The optimal placement of WTs within a WF is therefore vital for achieving high performance. This permits as many WTs as possible to be installed inside a narrow region. In this work, the water cycle algorithm (WCA), a recently developed optimizer, was employed to identify the optimal distribution of WTs. Minimization of the total cost per kilowatt was the objective of the optimization process. Two different cases were considered: the first assumed constant wind speed with variable wind direction, while the second applied variable wind speed with variable wind direction. The results obtained through the WCA optimizer were compared with other algorithms, namely, salp swarm algorithm (SSA), satin bowerbird optimization (SBO), grey wolf optimizer (GWO), and differential evolution (DE), as well as other reported works. WCA gave the best solution compared to other reported and programmed algorithms, thus confirming the reliability and validity of WCA in optimally configuring turbines in a wind farm for both the studied cases.

Keywords: modern optimization; wind farm; energy efficiency; optimal placement (search for similar items in EconPapers)
JEL-codes: Q Q0 Q4 Q40 Q41 Q42 Q43 Q47 Q48 Q49 (search for similar items in EconPapers)
Date: 2019
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