Development of power flow software using design patterns

Author

Selvan, M.P. ; Swarup, K. Shanti

Author_Institution

Dept. of Electr. Eng., Indian Inst. of Technol., Chennai, India

Volume

21

Issue

2

fYear

2006

fDate

5/1/2006 12:00:00 AM

Firstpage

611

Lastpage

618

Abstract

Application of object-oriented design patterns for the development of power system computation software is presented. Important patterns such as "Iterator," "Decorator," and "Template Method" are utilized to develop a comprehensive power flow (load flow) analysis program, including FACTS devices such as SVC, TCSC, STATCOM, and UPFC. Analysis-independent object models of power system components are obtained by untying the attributes required for computation from the attributes representing the physical characteristics of an object. The proposed object-oriented design of power flow computation has been implemented in C++ on windows environment. The performance of the developed program has been tested with IEEE benchmark systems.

Keywords

C++ language; CAD; flexible AC transmission systems; object-oriented methods; power engineering computing; C++; FACTS device; IEEE benchmark systems; STATCOM; SVC; TCSC; UPFC; analysis-independent object models; decorator; iterator; object-oriented design; power flow software; power system computation software; template method; Application software; Load flow; Load flow analysis; Pattern analysis; Power capacitors; Power system analysis computing; Power system modeling; Software design; Software systems; Static VAr compensators; Design patterns; FACTS devices; object-oriented development; power flow analysis; power system computation;

fLanguage

English

Journal_Title

Power Systems, IEEE Transactions on

Publisher

ieee

ISSN

0885-8950

Type

jour

DOI

10.1109/TPWRS.2006.873050

Filename

1626365