Optimal unified power flow controller application to enhance total transfer capability

Abbas Rajabi-Ghahnavieh; Mahmud Fotuhi-Firuzabad; Muhammad Othman

Optimal unified power flow controller application to enhance total transfer capability

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Author(s): Abbas Rajabi-Ghahnavieh ¹ ; Mahmud Fotuhi-Firuzabad ² ; Muhammad Othman ³
- Affiliations: 1: Sharif Energy Research Institute, Tehran, Iran;
  2: Department of Electrical Engineering, Center of Excellence in Power system Control and Management, Sharif University of Technology, Tehran, Iran;
  3: Faculty of Electrical Engineering, UniversitiTeknologi MARA, 40450, Selangor, Shah Alam, Malaysia
Source: Volume 9, Issue 4, 05 March 2015, p. 358 – 368
DOI: 10.1049/iet-gtd.2014.0110 , Print ISSN 1751-8687, Online ISSN 1751-8695

Received 28/08/2013, Accepted 06/10/2014, Revised 12/06/2014, Published 04/02/2015

For a power transfer path, total transfer capability (TTC) represents maximum power that can be transferred over the transmission system. Unified power flow controller (UPFC) is a device that can be used to increase in TTC. This study presents a new method for optimal UPFC application to minimise power loss while enhancing TTC. Based on UPFC injection model, the solution region of UPFC parameters is first found using the proposed method to maximise TTC. It then searches the solution region to find optimal UPFC control mode and setting to minimise system power loss. The proposed method is applied to the IEEE-Reliability Test System and the UPFC application impact are evaluated. Comparative studies are conducted between the TTC results obtained by the proposed method with those obtained using the existing approaches.

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