Frequency stabilization of hydro–hydro power system using hybrid bacteria foraging PSO with UPFC and HAE

Abstract This paper presents the design of proportional integral derivative (PID) based load frequency control (LFC) scheme effectively optimized through novel combination of bacteria foraging oriented particle swarm optimization (BFO-PSO) technique for a hydro dominating energy system model. The design control are implemented for 1% load disturbance in area-1 and compared with classical PID, Pessen integral rule, some overshoot, no overshoot as well as with recently published bacteria foraging optimization algorithm (BFOA) in terms of computed gains and inverse time multiplied absolute error (ITAE). The system performance for hydro energy system is sluggish and oscillatory. Hence, the further enhancement with proposed design are observed by considering the combination of unified power flow control (UPFC) in series with the tie-line and hydrogen aqua electrolyzer units installed at terminal of area-2. The system performance of the designed control is evaluated under various system investigations considering the dead-band and generation rate constraint (GRC) non-linearity and the applications results are presented to show the superiority of the proposed work.