OPTIMAL RECONFIGURATION AND CAPACITOR PLACEMENT FOR POWER LOSS REDUCTION USING IMPERIALIST COMPETITIVE ALGORITHM
Optimal reconfiguration and placement are used to reduce power losses and keep the voltage within its allowable interval in power distribution systems considering voltage, current, and radial condition constraints. An effective method and a new algorithm using the ‘‘Imperialist Competitive Algorithm" is designed. ICA as one of the new evolutionary methods has recently got more attention in power system applications due to its special capabilities. The efficiency of ICA to solve optimization problems in other fields has confirmed its better performance compared with other evolutionary algorithms. The algorithm is applied and tested on 16,33,69,118 and 119 bus IEEE test systems to find the optimum configuration of the network with regard to power losses. Five different cases are considered as mentioned below, and the effectiveness of the proposed technique is also demonstrated with improvements in power loss reduction, through MATLAB under steady-state conditions.
Case #1. Only network reconfiguration;
Case #2. Only capacitor placement;
Case #3. First, network reconfiguration and then capacitor placement
Case #4. First, capacitor placement and then network reconfiguration;
Case #5. Network reconfiguration and optimal capacitor placement, simultaneously;
Reference Paper-1: Optimal reconfiguration and capacitor placement for power loss reduction of a distribution system using improved binary particle swarm optimization
Author’s Name: Mostafa Sedighizadeh. Marzieh Dakhem. Mohammad Sarvi and Hadi Hosseini Kordkheili
Source: Int J Energy Environ Eng
Year:2014
Reference Paper-2: Reconfiguration and optimal capacitor placement for losses reduction
Author’s Name: Diana P. Montoya and Juan M. Ramirez
Source: IEEE
Year:2012
Reference Paper-3: Reconfiguration of Distribution Systems to Improve Reliability and Reduce Power Losses using Imperialist Competitive
Algorithm
Author’s Name: M. Sedighizadeh(C.A.), M. Esmaili and M. M. Mahmoodi
Source: Iranian Journal of Electrical & Electronic Engineering
Year:2017
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