An enhanced power flow solution algorithm for radial distribution feeder systems

This paper presents enhancement steps for solving the power flow of radial distribution feeder systems. The proposed correction values reduce the number of required solution iterations significantly, resulting in improving the algorithm´s performance. A number of test feeder systems are used to evaluate the method in comparison with other available methods. The proposed method classifies feeder systems into two categories 1) Single line feeder systems, and 2) Lateral and Sub-Lateral feeder systems. Computational testing of different feeder systems status confirms that the proposed method succeeds as a fast, convergence-guaranteed, accurate and easy to implement technique.