Mohamed Bahy Eldien Barakat Mabrouk <br/><br/>
Enhancement of grid-connected wind / PV hybrid system using STATCOM /  
 تعزيز النظام الهجين ذو طاقة الرياح  والخلايا الضوئية المتصل بالشبكة باستخدام المعوض الثابت المتزامن    
Mohamed Bahy Eldien Barakat Mabrouk ; Supervised Essam M. Aboulzahab , Mohamed Gamal Eldien Hassan 
 - Cairo :   Mohamed Bahy Eldien Barakat Mabrouk ,   2015 
 - 134 P. :   charts , facsimiles ;   30cm 
<br/><br/>Thesis (M.Sc.) - Cairo University - Faculty of Engineering - Department of Electrical Power and Machines 
<br/><br/> The renewable energy sources such as wind energy, solar energy play an important  role in electric power generation, it is clean and unlimited. In this thesis, the mathematical  model of the SRG drive is derived. PV system and Incremental Conductance Technique(ICT) was designed to maximize the energy received from solar cells by tracking the maximum power point . This research studies the use of STATCOM as type of (FACTS) at the Point  of Common Coupling  (PCC) to regulate terminal voltage of the wind- PV hybrid generation systems during grid side disturbances like voltage swelling and voltage sagging. The PSO and GA technique is applied in this to adjust the PI voltage controller parameters of STATCOM. It is worth mentioning that the PSO technique gives better performance and converges faster than GA 
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<br/><br/><label>Subjects--Index Terms: </label>Hybrid power systems      PV  Switched Reluctance Generator (SRG)