Optimal size and location of Distributed Generation and KVAR support in unbalanced 3-Φ distribution system using PSO

Author

Reddy, S. Surender ; Dey, Sunita Halder Nee ; Paul, Sudipta

Author_Institution

Dept. of Electr. Eng., Jadavpur Univ., Kolkata, India

fYear

2012

fDate

13-15 Dec. 2012

Firstpage

77

Lastpage

83

Abstract

This paper proposes a Particle Swarm Optimization based methodology for finding Optimal size and location of Distributed Generation and unbalanced Reactive power support for unbalanced three phase distribution network. The improvement in voltage profile and loss saving are presented. The proposed technique is tested on IEEE 37 node radial test feeder which is an actual feeder in California. The program is developed using MATLAB programming software. The results obtained show the effectiveness of the method for unbalanced network.

Keywords

distributed power generation; losses; particle swarm optimisation; reactive power; IEEE 37 node radial test feeder; KVAR; Matlab programming software; PSO; distribution network; loss; optimal distributed generation location; optimal distributed generation size; particle swarm optimization; unbalanced 3-Φ distribution system; unbalanced network; unbalanced reactive power; voltage profile; Distributed generation (DG); Optimal placement; Particle Swarm Optimization (PSO); power losses;

fLanguage

English

Publisher

ieee

Conference_Titel

Emerging Trends in Electrical Engineering and Energy Management (ICETEEEM), 2012 International Conference on

Conference_Location

Chennai

Print_ISBN

978-1-4673-4633-7

Type

conf

DOI

10.1109/ICETEEEM.2012.6494447

Filename

6494447