OPTIMUM CONFIGURATION OF FUEL CELL-B PV/WIND HYBRID SYSTEM USING A HYBRID METAHEURISTIC TECHNIQUE

摘要

Because of their low impact on environment, PV/wind hybrid systems which use fuel cells (FCs) as the energy storagedevice are one of the most promising renewable energy sources. In such systems, optimum configuration (sizing) plays animportant role for decreasing the system cost. In this paper, PV/wind/FC system is modeled and a hybrid metaheuristictechnique based on chaotic search (CS), harmony search (HS) and simulated annealing (SA) is employed to find theoptimum configuration. Optimum configuration is found for PV/FC, wind/FC, and PV/wind/FC systems and the resultsare compared.