Optimal location of UPFC device considering system loadability, total fuel cost, power losses and cost of installation

Author

Behshad, M. ; Lashkarara, A. ; Rahmani, A.H.

Author_Institution

Dezful Branch, Electr. Eng. Dept., Islamic Azad Univ., Dezful, Iran

Volume

2

fYear

2009

fDate

19-20 Dec. 2009

Firstpage

231

Lastpage

237

Abstract

The main purpose of this paper is to identify the optimal location of the unified power flow controller (UPFC) in electrical power systems. The proposed algorithm is based on the power injection model for UPFC incorporating Optimal Power Flow (OPF) in steady-state analysis. The problem is formulated to find the best location of UPFC in order to optimize the fuel cost function, power losses and the system loadability as objective functions while the investment on the UPFC device is minimized. Simulation results on the IEEE 14-, 30-, and 118- bus test systems are presented to show that the proposed approach can obtain better solution and require less CPU time than evolutionary programming, genetic algorithm and differential evolution.

Keywords

load flow control; losses; optimisation; power systems; IEEE 118- bus test system; IEEE 14-bus test system; IEEE 30-bus test system; UPFC device; differential evolution; electrical power systems; evolutionary programming; fuel cost function; genetic algorithm; installation cost; optimal location; power injection model; power losses; steady-state analysis; system loadability; unified power flow controller; Algorithm design and analysis; Control systems; Cost function; Fuels; Investments; Load flow; Optimal control; Power system analysis computing; Power system modeling; Steady-state; OPF; UPFC; fuel cost function; optimal location; power losses; system loadability;

fLanguage

English

Publisher

ieee

Conference_Titel

Power Electronics and Intelligent Transportation System (PEITS), 2009 2nd International Conference on

Conference_Location

Shenzhen

Print_ISBN

978-1-4244-4544-8

Type

conf

DOI

10.1109/PEITS.2009.5406914

Filename

5406914