Optimal capacitor placement in distribution systems for power loss reduction and voltage profile improvement

Adel Ali Abou El-Ela; Ragab A. El-Sehiemy; Abdel-Mohsen Kinawy; Mohamed Taha Mouwafi

Optimal capacitor placement in distribution systems for power loss reduction and voltage profile improvement

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Author(s): Adel Ali Abou El-Ela ¹ ; Ragab A. El-Sehiemy ² ; Abdel-Mohsen Kinawy ¹ ; Mohamed Taha Mouwafi ¹
- Affiliations: 1: Electrical Engineering Department, Faculty of Engineering, Menoufiya University, Shebin El-Kom, 32511, Egypt ;
  2: Electrical Engineering Department, Faculty of Engineering, Kafrelsheikh University, Egypt
Source: Volume 10, Issue 5, 07 April 2016, p. 1209 – 1221
DOI: 10.1049/iet-gtd.2015.0799 , Print ISSN 1751-8687, Online ISSN 1751-8695

Received 11/02/2015, Accepted 18/11/2015, Revised 17/10/2015, Published 07/04/2016

This study presents a two-stage procedure to identify the optimal locations and sizes of capacitors in radial distribution systems. In first stage, the loss sensitivity analysis using two loss sensitivity indices (LSIs) is employed to select the most candidate capacitors locations. In second stage, the ant colony optimisation algorithm is investigated to find the optimal locations and sizes of capacitors considering the minimisation of energy loss and capacitor costs as objective functions while system constraints are fully achieved. The fixed, practical switched and the combination of fixed and switched capacitors are considered to find the optimal solution. The backward/forward sweep algorithm is developed for the load flow calculations. The proposed procedure is applied to different standard test systems as 34-bus and 85-bus radial distribution systems. In addition, the application of the proposed procedure on a real distribution system of the East Delta Network as a part of the Unified Egyptian Network is used as a test system. Numerical results show the capability of the proposed procedure to find the optimal solution for significant saving in the total cost with more accurate and efficient, competitive compared with other methods in the literature especially with increasing the distribution system sizing.

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