Analysis of Emergent Behavior of Reliability in the System of Systems Including Energy Hubs

Abstract: System of systems is a collection of independent systems that pool their resources and capabilities together to create a new, more functional system. One of the basic features of any system of systems is emergent behavior that arises out of the interactions between components of a system and cannot easily be predicted or extrapolated from the behavior of those individual components. The purpose of this study is to provide an analysis of reliability-emergent behavior in the system of systems involving energy hubs. Based on this, the effect of the electrical interaction of energy hubs is examined, in order to improve reliability and economic indices in the management of the microgrid system. In order to evaluate the proposed model, the method has been implemented on IEEE 33-bus 12.66 kV test system. Numerical experiments confirm the performance and effectiveness of the proposed method.Keywords: Systems of systems, Emergent behavior, Microgrid operation scheduling, Smart energy hubs, Reliability