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      <journal-title-group><journal-title>SET Proceedings</journal-title></journal-title-group>
      <issn pub-type="epub">2978-4387</issn>
      <publisher><publisher-name>Caravel Press</publisher-name></publisher>
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      <article-id pub-id-type="doi">10.65582/set.2011.308</article-id>
      <article-id pub-id-type="publisher-id">2011.308</article-id>
      <title-group><article-title>Effect of Interruptible Loads and Reliability on Optimal Sizing of an Islanded Microgrid</article-title></title-group>
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      <contrib contrib-type="author" corresp="yes">
        <name><surname>HassanzadehFard</surname><given-names>H.</given-names></name>
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      <contrib contrib-type="author">
        <name><surname>Moghaddas-Tafreshi</surname><given-names>S. M.</given-names></name>
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      <contrib contrib-type="author" corresp="yes">
        <name><surname>Hakimi</surname><given-names>S. M.</given-names></name>
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        <email>sm_hakimi@ieee.org</email>
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      <aff id="aff1">Faculty of Electrical Engineering, K.N. Toosi University, Iran, Tehran</aff>
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      <pub-date publication-format="electronic" date-type="pub"><day>04</day><month>09</month><year>2011</year></pub-date>
      <volume>10</volume>
      <isbn publication-format="electronic">978-1-995850-03-0</isbn>
      <fpage>1</fpage>
      <lpage>5</lpage>
      <self-uri xlink:href="https://caravelpress.com/proceedings/set/papers/2011.308"/>
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        <date date-type="received"><string-date>4 September 2011</string-date></date>
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      <permissions>
        <copyright-statement>© 2011 Copyright WSSET</copyright-statement>
        <copyright-year>2011</copyright-year>
      </permissions>
      <abstract><p>In islanded micro-grid design, a proper Distributed Energy Resource (DER), sizing and effective coordination between resources are important and challenging optimization tasks. The types and sizes of renewable energy sources such as wind turbines, photovoltaic panels, fuel cell and the capacities of battery bank and the other distributed generators must be optimized in islanded micro-grid design. In this paper, the problem is formulated as a nonlinear integer minimization problem which minimizes the sum of the total capital, operational and maintenance and replacement cost of DERs. In this paper we use Particle Swarm Optimization (PSO) for solving this minimization problem. The proposed methodology was used to design micro-grid for northwest of Iran. In this paper some notions of reliability are considered for micro-grid, and the effect of reliability on total cost of micro-grid is evaluated. In this paper we assume that micro-grid consists of interruptible and uninterruptible loads.</p></abstract>
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        <kwd>Interruptible loads</kwd>
        <kwd>Micro-grid</kwd>
        <kwd>Particle swarm optimization</kwd>
        <kwd>Reliability</kwd>
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      <conference>
        <conf-date>4 to 7 September 2011</conf-date>
        <conf-name>10th International Conference on Sustainable Energy Technologies</conf-name>
        <conf-acronym>SET2011</conf-acronym>
        <conf-num>10</conf-num>
        <conf-loc>Istanbul, Türkiye</conf-loc>
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