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  • Open Access
3 Citations
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8 March 2024

Currently, the global energy revolution in the direction of green and low-carbon technologies is flourishing. The large-scale integration of renewable energy into the grid has led to significant fluctuations in the net load of the power system. To me...

  • Article
  • Open Access
56 Citations
3,819 Views
16 Pages

Novel Heuristic Optimization Technique to Solve Economic Load Dispatch and Economic Emission Load Dispatch Problems

  • Nagendra Singh,
  • Tulika Chakrabarti,
  • Prasun Chakrabarti,
  • Martin Margala,
  • Amit Gupta,
  • S. Phani Praveen,
  • Sivaneasan Bala Krishnan and
  • Bhuvan Unhelkar

The fundamental objective of economic load dispatch is to operate the available generating units such that the needed load demand satisfies the lowest generation cost and also complies with the various constraints. With proper power system operation...

  • Article
  • Open Access
10 Citations
2,338 Views
30 Pages

25 December 2022

Dump load (DL) utilization at low demand hours in highly penetrated islanded microgrid is of great importance to offer voltage and frequency regulation. Additionally, load flow (LF) convergence is vital to optimize the working states of the DL alloca...

  • Article
  • Open Access
12 Citations
4,504 Views
22 Pages

Instantaneous Electricity Peak Load Forecasting Using Optimization and Machine Learning

  • Mustafa Saglam,
  • Xiaojing Lv,
  • Catalina Spataru and
  • Omer Ali Karaman

6 February 2024

Accurate instantaneous electricity peak load prediction is crucial for efficient capacity planning and cost-effective electricity network establishment. This paper aims to enhance the accuracy of instantaneous peak load forecasting by employing model...

  • Article
  • Open Access
1,075 Views
26 Pages

3 July 2025

This paper focuses on optimizing sensor placement in structures for load monitoring applications. Such applications rely on sensor data to track changes in the structure. Monitoring accuracy relies on proper sensor placement. The goal is to maximize...

  • Article
  • Open Access
23 Citations
3,969 Views
15 Pages

22 June 2020

Power systems are susceptible to disturbances due to their nature. These disturbances can cause overloads or even contingencies of greater impact. In case of an extreme situation, load curtailment is considered the last resort for reducing the contin...

  • Article
  • Open Access
2 Citations
1,846 Views
19 Pages

25 May 2024

The reasonable expression of live load and its accuracy are important to the safety and design rationality of highway bridge structures. In this study, the optimization issue of the traffic load model for the suspenders of large-scale suspension brid...

  • Article
  • Open Access
85 Views
38 Pages

An Improved SAO Used for Global Optimization and Economic Power Load Forecasting

  • Lang Zhou,
  • Yaochun Shao,
  • HaoXiang Zhou and
  • Yangjian Yang

3 February 2026

Short-term electricity load forecasting has become increasingly challenging due to growing demand volatility, nonlinear load patterns, and the dynamic penetration of renewable energy sources. Conventional forecasting models often suffer from sensitiv...

  • Article
  • Open Access
2 Citations
1,156 Views
16 Pages

Optimization of Load Rejection Regulation for Compressed Air Energy Storage

  • Yinghao Wu,
  • Xiankui Wen,
  • Shihai Zhang,
  • Qiang Fan,
  • Huayang Ye and
  • Chao Wu

8 January 2025

Given the shortcomings of compressed air energy storage systems in emergency response in power auxiliary research, especially in the scenario of decoupling from the power grid, an in-depth analysis is conducted. A set of energy release stage models w...

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  • Open Access
608 Views
13 Pages

Capacity Configuration Optimization of Wind–Light–Load Storage Based on Improved PSO

  • Benhong Wang,
  • Ligui Wu,
  • Peng Zhang,
  • Yifeng Gu,
  • Fangqing Zhang and
  • Jiang Guo

30 September 2025

To improve the economy and stability of data center green power direct supply, the capacity configuration optimization of wind–light–load storage based on improved particle swarm optimization (PSO) is conducted. According to wind speed, t...

  • Article
  • Open Access
26 Citations
5,332 Views
16 Pages

7 April 2018

Home energy management systems (HEMS) face many challenges of uncertainty, which have a great impact on the scheduling of home appliances. To handle the uncertain parameters in the household load scheduling problem, this paper uses a robust optimizat...

  • Article
  • Open Access
5 Citations
1,577 Views
19 Pages

1 March 2025

This research addresses the challenge of load management in electricity distribution networks, focusing on the optimal placement of telecommunication load breaker switches in the presence of distributed generation units. By integrating two key object...

  • Article
  • Open Access
1 Citations
1,864 Views
23 Pages

Fusion of Hierarchical Optimization Models for Accurate Power Load Prediction

  • Sicheng Wan,
  • Yibo Wang,
  • Youshuang Zhang,
  • Beibei Zhu,
  • Huakun Huang and
  • Jia Liu

12 August 2024

Accurate power load forecasting is critical to achieving the sustainability of energy management systems. However, conventional prediction methods suffer from low precision and stability because of crude modules for predicting short-term and medium-t...

  • Article
  • Open Access
15 Citations
3,612 Views
16 Pages

19 July 2020

In this paper, an adaptive load torque observer based on backstepping control is designed, which achieves accurate load estimation where the load is unknown. Based on this, in order to reduce the loss of the motor at low load, a smooth switching stra...

  • Article
  • Open Access
50 Citations
8,246 Views
18 Pages

This paper focuses on the load imbalance problem in System Wide Information Management (SWIM) task scheduling. In order to meet the quality requirements of users for task completion, we studied large-scale network information system task scheduling m...

  • Article
  • Open Access
1 Citations
3,137 Views
17 Pages

12 March 2020

The sensitivity method is a type of effective shape optimization method and the strain energy is a frequently used objective function. The change of a surface shape inevitably causes a change in its quality. However, the influence of the load term on...

  • Article
  • Open Access
1 Citations
2,004 Views
17 Pages

Optimization Method for Stiffened-Plate Layout in Box Structures Based on Load Paths

  • Huilong Zhang,
  • Hui Lian,
  • Chaoshi Wang,
  • Fenghe Wu and
  • Zhaohua Wang

1 October 2024

Gantries and beams, as the main load-bearing structures of heavy equipment, usually belong to the box structure consisting of outer walls and inner stiffened plates. The structure of the stiffener layout is bulky due to empirical design, leading to h...

  • Article
  • Open Access
11 Citations
2,253 Views
20 Pages

15 September 2021

A microgrid is an efficient method of uniting distributed generations. To ensure the applicability and symmetry of the microgrid, the environmental benefits and economic costs are considered to comprehensively model the optimal operation of the micro...

  • Feature Paper
  • Article
  • Open Access
1 Citations
2,540 Views
12 Pages

8 February 2020

Due to fluctuating characteristics of loads, dynamic reactive power optimization over a certain time period is essential to provide effective strategies to maintain the security and economic operation of distribution systems. In operation, reactive p...

  • Article
  • Open Access
14 Citations
2,217 Views
27 Pages

Exploiting the Moth–Flame Optimization Algorithm for Optimal Load Management of the University Campus: A Viable Approach in the Academia Sector

  • Ibrar Ullah,
  • Irshad Hussain,
  • Khalid Rehman,
  • Piotr Wróblewski,
  • Wojciech Lewicki and
  • Balasubramanian Prabhu Kavin

19 May 2022

Unbalanced load condition is one of the major issues of all commercial, industrial and residential sectors. Unbalanced load means that, when different loads are distributed on a three-phase four-wire system, unequal currents pass through the three ph...

  • Article
  • Open Access
16 Citations
2,290 Views
17 Pages

4 December 2022

Accurate load forecasting is conducive to the formulation of the power generation plan, lays the foundation for the formulation of quotation, and provides the basis for the power management system and distribution management system. This study aims t...

  • Article
  • Open Access
823 Views
21 Pages

2 September 2025

Electric vehicles (EVs) and thermostatically controlled loads (TCLs) are key demand-side resources for load regulation in modern power systems. However, effective load regulation faces significant challenges due to the stochastic nature of EV travel...

  • Article
  • Open Access
5 Citations
2,073 Views
16 Pages

Terminal Cooling Load Forecasting Model Based on Particle Swarm Optimization

  • Lifei Song,
  • Weijun Gao,
  • Yongwen Yang,
  • Liting Zhang,
  • Qifen Li and
  • Ziwen Dong

21 September 2022

With the development of the civil aviation industry, the passenger throughput of airports has increased explosively, and they need to carry a large number of passengers every day and maintain operations for a long time. These factors cause the large...

  • Article
  • Open Access
24 Citations
3,248 Views
17 Pages

Short-Term Electric Load Forecasting Based on Variational Mode Decomposition and Grey Wolf Optimization

  • Mengran Zhou,
  • Tianyu Hu,
  • Kai Bian,
  • Wenhao Lai,
  • Feng Hu,
  • Oumaima Hamrani and
  • Ziwei Zhu

10 August 2021

Short-term electric load forecasting plays a significant role in the safe and stable operation of the power system and power market transactions. In recent years, with the development of new energy sources, more and more sources have been integrated...

  • Article
  • Open Access
57 Citations
8,745 Views
19 Pages

26 November 2015

How to distribute and coordinate tasks in cloud computing is a challenging issue, in order to get optimal resource utilization and avoid overload. In this paper, we present a novel approach on load balancing via ant colony optimization (ACO), for bal...

  • Article
  • Open Access
62 Citations
3,963 Views
19 Pages

Performance of Osprey Optimization Algorithm for Solving Economic Load Dispatch Problem

  • Alaa A. K. Ismaeel,
  • Essam H. Houssein,
  • Doaa Sami Khafaga,
  • Eman Abdullah Aldakheel,
  • Ahmed S. AbdElrazek and
  • Mokhtar Said

28 September 2023

The osprey optimization algorithm (OOA) is a new metaheuristic motivated by the strategy of hunting fish in seas. In this study, the OOA is applied to solve one of the main items in a power system called economic load dispatch (ELD). The ELD has two...

  • Article
  • Open Access
774 Views
23 Pages

4 September 2025

The rapid development of telematics technology has greatly supported high-computing applications like autonomous driving and real-time road condition prediction. However, the limited computational resources and dynamic topology of in-vehicle terminal...

  • Article
  • Open Access
1,389 Views
20 Pages

Path Planning Optimization of the Load Transport Process Using Heuristic Algorithms

  • Paweł Kwiatoń,
  • Dawid Cekus,
  • Dorian Skrobek,
  • Michal Šofer and
  • Zdenek Poruba

30 October 2024

The paper presents the process of optimizing the duty cycle of a rotary crane. The minimization of the carried load’s trajectory was chosen as the objective function. The research was conducted using the genetic algorithm and the particle swarm...

  • Article
  • Open Access
4 Citations
1,416 Views
20 Pages

Optimization of the Load Command for a Coal-Fired Power Unit via Particle Swarm OptimizationLong Short-Term Memory Model

  • Xiaoguang Hao,
  • Chunlai Yang,
  • Heng Chen,
  • Jianning Dong,
  • Jiandong Bao,
  • Hui Wang and
  • Wenbin Zhang

30 May 2024

This study addresses the challenges faced by coal-fired power plants in adapting to energy fluctuations following the integration of renewable energy sources into the power grid. The flexible operation of thermal power plants has become a focal point...

  • Article
  • Open Access
8 Citations
3,004 Views
17 Pages

22 February 2021

In this study, a semi-analytic approach to optimizing the external load resistance of a bi-stable electromagnetic energy harvester is presented based on the harmonic balance method. The harmonic balance analyses for the primary harmonic (period-1T) a...

  • Article
  • Open Access
8 Citations
3,216 Views
15 Pages

The qualit12y of shafting alignment is related to the reliability and safety of a ship’s operation, and bearing displacement adjustment (BDA) plays a key role in shafting alignment. To solve the problems encountered in ship shafting alignment i...

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  • Open Access
237 Views
29 Pages

Multi-Objective Optimization and Load-Flow Analysis in Complex Power Distribution Networks

  • Tariq Ali,
  • Muhammad Ayaz,
  • Husam S. Samkari,
  • Mohammad Hijji,
  • Mohammed F. Allehyani and
  • El-Hadi M. Aggoune

Modern power distribution networks are increasingly challenged with nonlinear operating conditions, the high penetration of distributed energy resources, and conflicting operational objectives such as loss minimization and voltage regulation. Existin...

  • Article
  • Open Access
675 Views
23 Pages

Data-Driven Load Suppression and Platform Motion Optimization for Semi-Submersible Wind Turbines

  • Liqing Liao,
  • Qian Huang,
  • Li Wang,
  • Jian Yang,
  • Dongran Song,
  • Sifan Chen and
  • Lingxiang Huang

23 September 2025

To address the issues of large fatigue loads on key components and poor platform motion stability under the coupling effect of wind, waves, and internal excitations in semi-submersible wind turbines, this paper proposes a data-driven load suppression...

  • Article
  • Open Access
4 Citations
2,186 Views
19 Pages

A Continuous Multistage Load Shedding Algorithm for Industrial Processes Based on Metaheuristic Optimization

  • Florin-Constantin Baiceanu,
  • Ovidiu Ivanov,
  • Razvan-Constantin Beniuga,
  • Bogdan-Constantin Neagu and
  • Ciprian-Mircea Nemes

13 June 2023

At complex industrial sites, the high number of large consumers that make the technological process chain requires direct supply from the main high-voltage grid. Often, for operational flexibility and redundancy, the main external supply is complemen...

  • Article
  • Open Access
5 Citations
2,033 Views
16 Pages

11 April 2024

To satisfy the interests of multiple agents and those of comprehensive indicators such as peak-to-valley differences and load fluctuations occurring on the network side, this paper presents a flexible load demand-side response optimization method tha...

  • Article
  • Open Access
3 Citations
3,140 Views
18 Pages

16 November 2021

Many computer problems that arise from real-world circumstances are NP-hard, while, in the worst case, these problems are generally assumed to be intractable. Existing distributed computing systems are commonly used for a range of large-scale complex...

  • Article
  • Open Access
6 Citations
2,608 Views
13 Pages

Design Optimization and Carbon Footprint Analysis of an Electrodeionization System with Flexible Load Regulation

  • Yuan Yuan,
  • Fengting Qian,
  • Jiaqi Lu,
  • Dungang Gu,
  • Yuhang Lou,
  • Na Xue,
  • Guanghui Li,
  • Wenjie Liao and
  • Nan Zhang

30 November 2022

Thermal power plants will function as a flexible load regulation in a low-carbon grid, which requires operation adaption for the whole system. Energy transition in the electricity sector is the core to realizing carbon neutrality. The power grid will...

  • Article
  • Open Access
27 Citations
3,522 Views
14 Pages

1 July 2018

In this paper, a hybrid ship powered by diesel generator sets and power batteries in series is considered. By analyzing the characteristics of hybrid ship cycle operating conditions, the load power of the hybrid ship under load uncertainty is firstly...

  • Article
  • Open Access
46 Citations
9,192 Views
26 Pages

12 June 2022

This paper proposes a new hybrid framework for short-term load forecasting (STLF) by combining the Feature Engineering (FE) and Bayesian Optimization (BO) algorithms with a Bayesian Neural Network (BNN). The FE module comprises feature selection and...

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  • Open Access
8 Citations
3,239 Views
13 Pages

31 October 2022

The train operation scheme of urban rail transit is a transportation plan formulated to fully meet the needs of passenger travel under the constraints of signal system capacity, turn-back capacity, and so on. Facing an unexpected epidemic, it was par...

  • Article
  • Open Access
15 Citations
2,732 Views
14 Pages

Bayesian Optimization-Based LSTM for Short-Term Heating Load Forecasting

  • Binglin Li,
  • Yong Shao,
  • Yufeng Lian,
  • Pai Li and
  • Qiang Lei

28 August 2023

With the increase in population and the progress of industrialization, the rational use of energy in heating systems has become a research topic for many scholars. The accurate prediction of heat load in heating systems provides us with a scientific...

  • Feature Paper
  • Article
  • Open Access
821 Views
15 Pages

Occupant-Centric Load Optimization in Smart Green Townhouses Using Machine Learning

  • Seyed Morteza Moghimi,
  • Thomas Aaron Gulliver,
  • Ilamparithi Thirumarai Chelvan and
  • Hossen Teimoorinia

24 June 2025

This paper presents an occupant-centric load optimization framework for Smart Green Townhouses (SGTs). A hybrid Long Short-Term Memory and Convolutional Neural Network (LSTM-CNN) model is combined with real-time Internet of Things (IoT) data to predi...

  • Article
  • Open Access
1 Citations
1,463 Views
18 Pages

Particle Swarm Optimization of Dynamic Load Model Parameters in Large Systems

  • Melanie T. Bennett,
  • J. Thomas Kirkpatrick and
  • Yilu Liu

This paper considers two dynamic load models that are widely used in industry to account for induction motor behavior: CMLD and CLOD. These models must be parametrized for the specific utility system in a general way so that they can be used in plann...

  • Article
  • Open Access
3 Citations
1,844 Views
17 Pages

18 February 2024

Compared to traditional centrifugal pumps, magnetic pumps are widely used in industries such as chemical, pharmaceutical, and petroleum due to their characteristics of leakage-free operation and the ability to transport toxic and corrosive fluids. Ho...

  • Article
  • Open Access
4 Citations
3,256 Views
21 Pages

28 July 2024

Due to growing environmental concerns and stringent emissions regulations, optimizing the fuel consumption of marine propulsion systems is crucial. This work deals with the potential in an LNG ship propulsion system to reduce fuel consumption through...

  • Article
  • Open Access
22 Citations
11,388 Views
22 Pages

24 March 2020

This paper presents an application of topology optimization and response surface method to optimize the geometry of a bicycle crank arm and the experimental validation of it. This is purposely to reduce the crank arm mass and create a preliminary des...

  • Article
  • Open Access
10 Citations
3,073 Views
12 Pages

6 March 2021

In this study, optimization of the external load resistance of a piezoelectric bistable energy harvester was performed for primary harmonic (period-1T) and subharmonic (period-3T) interwell motions. The analytical expression of the optimal load resis...

  • Article
  • Open Access
8 Citations
2,308 Views
18 Pages

This paper presents an improved pelican optimization algorithm (IPOA) to solve the economic load dispatch problem. The vertical crossover operator in the crisscross optimization algorithm is integrated to expand the diversity of the population in the...

  • Article
  • Open Access
1 Citations
815 Views
18 Pages

Optimization of Energy Use for Zero-Carbon Buildings Considering Intraday Source-Load Uncertainties

  • Guiqing Feng,
  • Kun Yu,
  • Yuntian Zheng,
  • Le Bu,
  • Jinfan Chen,
  • Wenli Xu and
  • Xingying Chen

16 May 2025

Building operational energy consumption accounts for a significant share of global energy consumption, and it is crucial to promote renewable energy self-sufficiency and operational optimization for zero-carbon buildings. However, scheduling strategi...

  • Article
  • Open Access
25 Citations
3,454 Views
19 Pages

21 January 2020

As energy saving becomes more and more popular, electric load forecasting has played a more and more crucial role in power management systems in the last few years. Because of the real-time characteristic of electricity and the uncertainty change of...

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